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Atomic Punx or Volkl Walls?

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Ali_Dibden
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planning on buying one of these two skis but was wondering which was the more playful in the park from anyones experience and which could take more damage and wear before breaking as planning on using for urban as well???
Sep 22 2012 10:21AM
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freeski1620
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Punx for sure. Look at your freeskier ski test yo!
Sep 22 2012 1:07PM
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.Hugo.
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your first question should have been ski gabber or gear talk
Sep 22 2012 1:10PM
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LIL-WAT
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The quality of punxs is stupid.. Race edges are the shittiest idea or the park.
Sep 23 2012 7:07AM
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Bateman
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Punx' look like sick skis (not appearance wise)
Sep 23 2012 9:45AM
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.Hugo.
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They put in new, thicker edges for this years model
Sep 23 2012 10:02AM
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flexpattern
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I've had the walls for the last two seasons used both on snow and virtually every week on dryslope on rails and they are fine, quite stiff but I would say very solid. Apart from a few edge cracks they are holding up well :) The walls are a fairly stiff ski for a jib ski however.

I have the atomic urban triplets as well which i think is what the punks are built on, they are solid skis too. The build quality of volkl and atomic is usually pretty good so you can't go too wrong with that :)
Sep 23 2012 11:32AM
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I_Am_Mod
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i participated in a skitest for the 2012 models and out of about 20 freestyle skis the punx was one of the lowest scoring skis and the wall one of the highest ...
personally i didn't think the punx was that bad but apparently the other testers did....

what everyone did agree however was that the wall was solid! it was even my personal favorite, together with the blackcrows viator ....

bear in mind this test doesn't account for durability and i also think that the punx scored so low because atomic provided us with only one test ski which was the 164cm and was quite short for 90% of the testers...
Sep 23 2012 11:40AM
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Spiri7o
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Punx for sure
Sep 23 2012 3:08PM
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coolflash8
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punx, i skied the 2011 walls and they are super stiff. i guess my interest lies more in rails than jumps, i would def go with the punxs, sick skis
Sep 23 2012 3:17PM
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Pipe_Munky
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go with the wall. if you want some rocker though, go with the kink. same ski but with tip and tail rocker
Sep 23 2012 5:04PM
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Parks.
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go with the punx! a friend has some and he really likes them
Sep 23 2012 5:56PM
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camstain
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I tried both this years punx and walls, my favorite was the punx for sure. I've also had the punx from previous years and it's always been a fun ski. Not to undermine the walls but I've heard a lot of complaints from the walls, some of which are about the stiffness.

Sep 23 2012 9:55PM
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Ali_Dibden
Posts: 1966 - Karma: 1,688
What about the ON3P filthy riches, they look like a seriously cool jib ski, anyone know how they would hold up on all-mountain/jumps though??
Sep 25 2012 6:45AM
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