making a thread if you have any gear specific questions, comments, concerns, blind rage or genuine appreciation. direct line to our engineer, Pollard, basically the brand. go nuts
thanks - josh
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driftslonger skis pls
CatdickBojanglesSkinnier less rockered fishtailed skis with a layer of Metal in them. Think a shrunk down sakana that made love to a pair of Blades.
alpha.mooseGenuinely love the whole ethos and wish this company success.
I am seriously thinking about the Nexus, but I am wondering if a 183 cm would be too small for me (6'3" 170lb). For reference, I am a big fan of the Atomic Bentchetler 100 188cm, Moment Deathwish 184cm, and Moment Wildcat 108 184cm. I am thinking I might have to wait until more sizes are available to support Season....or I'll just surprise my partner with a snowboard from you guys. Ha, but seriously what y'all are doing is a breath of fresh air.
a_pla5tic_bagEveryone says longer skis, but is Pollard perhaps correct in having these sizes under his idea that there are too many ski models with little functional difference between them? Perhaps these sizes, though shorter or longer than what you might normally ride, are going to be just fine and some cm's worth of difference isn't going to blow your skiing ability?
I have 171 magnus, 175 JJs, and 159 Atomic S9s so the 165 Aero seems to short to me, specially being rockered. I don't know the effective edge measurements of all my skis (and that's not the only thing that matters) but I bet they're not drastically different such that the 165 Aero would be too short for me.
driftslonger skis pls
SlowbroIm sure a lot of people are thinking the same thing, but will you release skis with Eric Pollard art at any point?
EPfanboyLove the look of the new skis and glad Pollard left Line becasue I love Pollard but not Line skis. Will the skis be suitable to do the odd tour on and what happend to Nimbus?
CatdickBojanglesSkinnier less rockered fishtailed skis with a layer of Metal in them. Think a shrunk down sakana that made love to a pair of Blades.
alpha.mooseGenuinely love the whole ethos and wish this company success.
I am seriously thinking about the Nexus, but I am wondering if a 183 cm would be too small for me (6'3" 170lb). For reference, I am a big fan of the Atomic Bentchetler 100 188cm, Moment Deathwish 184cm, and Moment Wildcat 108 184cm. I am thinking I might have to wait until more sizes are available to support Season....or I'll just surprise my partner with a snowboard from you guys. Ha, but seriously what y'all are doing is a breath of fresh air.
DrZoidbergAre any of the skis SFB-ish? I have SFBs from a few years ago and they're just such great skis.
And with the sizing... For reference I'm 5'5" 120lbs. In the past I had a 166cm full camber line chronic, which was fine enough. So perhaps 165s here could work for me, even with the rocker, because I think Pollard et al know how to do rocker. My SFBs are 178 and they never feel cumbersome because everything works in harmony to make a great ski.
I believe Pollard surfs a lot and probably plays with surfboard design too. I shape boards in my garage, as I've posted about on here before. You can make a really small board act like a longer board to some extent. Most of my shapes focus on letting these small little boards drive like that have some length to them. I'm sure the same can be true for skis. My SFBs act like a smaller, very compliant ski. I bet they can make a 165 not act like a tiny little ski.
DrZoidbergAre the sidewalls wood? Or just wood colored plastic/ABS/whatever?
Lazylightningshorter than you'd wanna ride
a_pla5tic_bagWell that's his point exactly. What you want to ride, i.e. think you need to ride, might not matter so much from a performance perspective. You might think you need a longer or shorter ski but it might just be in your head. Granted, this is hard to say.
A question for season though, what's the point of the swallow tails? Are they supposed to allow independent flex of the tail edges when on edge (if that's ever even on the ground)? Or are they actually just aesthetics from surfing? I can't see that a decrease in tail area serves the same purpose on a ski as it does on a surfboard.
Profahoben_212swallows allow the tail of the ski to sink more in soft snow/powder creating a fun, different planing of the tip through the snow. Similar idea to pintails.
I beleive
mrk127I would love to see a ski like the line Blade but beefed up. None of that “gas pedal metal” but full sheet or two of titanal. I loved that shape and concept of the ski but the flex patten was weak sauce especially in the front of the ski. I would love to see eqpt be the company improve on the idea of a tight radius all mountain carver but more suitable for really charging
Trumpkin2020Interesting. Digging the looks too. Maybe it's just me but the average turn radius on all the skis is quite small. Any plans to increase this in the future? Or is this because most people ride skis with a smaller radius like this?
Also if not mentioned already what materials are used in the core? I can appreciate all the detail listed on your site for each ski but couldn't find that.
pokerman10$ everyone asking for longer skis don't even ride past 183.