Park Skis

January 17th, 2009

If you’re looking to dial in your quiver, K2 has every base covered. Let’s start from the freestyle, and move on through to the true powder specific tools.

There are a couple of choices when it comes to park specific skis. If you’re buying skis for a growing teenager or you’re just looking for a cheap ski to hit up the terrain park, then you might want to look into the K2 Silencer. Reasonably priced, the Silencer can handle most of the mountain, but being a ski on the softer side it will feel most at home while on the boxes and rails.

Moving into a more serious ski that even a seasoned veteran can appreciate, the K2 Extreme is a spin-off of an old school graphic from K2, but the ski is as new school as they come. 85mm underfoot, the Extreme holds a solid edge all around, but is buttery enough to crush every feature in the park (even the 60 footers).

It starts getting a little hazy from here. Moving into the Kung Fujas, Obsethed, and Hellbent, the lines are blurred a bit from freestyle to powder/all mountain. We’ll take a look at these next installment, but in the meantime don’t count out the K2 Kung Fujas as a rad park ski that still kills it in powder.

K2 Skis

January 7th, 2009

If there’s a ski brand that has continuously pushed the sport of skiing by maintaining a pro and am team on the forefront of the freestyle/freeride scene and producing innovative equipment for the masses, then K2 would be it. With Pro riders like Seth Morrison, Pk Hunder, Michelle Parker, Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, Sean Pettit, Shane McConkey, and Shane Szocs, K2 Skis has a stacked pro team that continue to produce good movie segments and a great vibe year-to-year.

Skis like the 09 K2 Obsethed, Hellbent, Kung Fujas, and Missbehaved keep on making their way out of the K2 factory because of the performance that these pro riders demand. Thankfully, you and I get to reap the benefit of these innovations. And maybe, just maybe we’ll get that much closer to skiing on these guys and gals coattails.

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