Worst 5 Skis in Recent Memory
1. Salomon Scream 10 Pilot Xtra Hot
There’s no sidecut for 30cm from the tip down since they’re made for run outs after huge cliff drops. Not really made for skiing, you have to lean over about 30-degrees before they’ll start to carve a turn.
2. Fischer’s “The Duke”
One size only (207cm) with a skeg on the back. Enough said.
2. Any K2 “The Brain” Ski
The light would come on when it dissipated energy. A sad gimmick that left too many beaters with broken necks from not watching the trail, but all those lights.
3. Any Goode Carbon Ski
So light they need weights at the tip and tail. Stuff a martini shaker in your pocket and it’ll be dialed Bond-style when you hit the base.
4. Volant Spatula
The original “chrome banana.” Caused many people who couldn’t handle the ride to drift into the lift line and take out the masses. Also one of the only skis to get banned from a handful of resorts.
5. Dynastar Legend Pro
Way to stiff for the width and length. It’s an ego ski—you may as well drive a Porsche while wearing a beret.
Honorable Mention: Snowblades, Snowlerblades, monoskis. Not really skis so I couldn’t include them, but you get the idea.
By- rockythompson
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February 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
This is a poor list. The Volant spatula was the precursor to a bunch of skis that are now hitting the market (Armada ARG, K2 Pontoon, 4frnt EHP, Salomon Rocker, Blizzard Kreitler Pro model as well as many more). If the spatula is a bad ski, then all of these skis must be bad as well. Also the Dynastar Legend Pro, while way too stiff for beaters, is actually one of the best built and easiest big mountain freeride skis on the market. The Legend Pro is not designed for skiing moguls or groomers with your family; instead it is built for high speed pow riding and cliff hucking. As for the ego comment you should take a ski lesson and learn how to actually ski before you ski the legend pro, then, considering that half of the ripping chicks at alta, snowbird, and Jackson ski on this ski your “ego manliness” is going to be crushed when they blow by you and slay that huge line that you have been spraying about to your friends to boost your “ego”. Lastly if you include the Legend Pro on this list you need to include the Rossignol B-Squad, and Head 105.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I would add the Rossignal Black Widow telemark ski. Flat and skinny. I washed a bunch of dishes to save up for these and wanted to throw them away after the first power day.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Spatula as one of the worst skis ever… are you just a gaper tha skis the groomers? Have you actually ridden these skis? 10:1 says no.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
You are obviously retarded. No banana rules like the chrome banana.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
As many have said about me in the past, I don’t “get” it.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Rocky - do you actually ski?
Here’s the reaction to your “top 5 worst” — which actually includes 2 of the (arguably) top 10-15 of recent memory, the Legend Pro and Spatula:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76302
February 9th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
ummm, 2,4 and 5? sack the hell up.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
You are a douche
I ski the Pro Dogs like its my job and im even a girl.
I would have an ego problem too if a girl had bigger huevos than me
February 10th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
sack up is right
February 10th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
How about anything Roxy?
February 11th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Were you sniffing paint when you came up with this list?
What’s your favorite ski? The Metron? You sir, are a MORON.
February 11th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
The Dynastar Pro Legend is “Worst 5 Skis in Recent Memory”? Maybe if I were 5′3 110 lbs I couldn’t flex the Pro either. If thats your problem then eat some eggs and lift some weights bud but don’t bitch that you can’t ski it. It speaks poorly of your skiing ability and physical fitness. Bottom line, the ski rocks. Its stable at high speed, its flex is perfect for what its designed to do, and it carves like nothing else. The numerous awards it has won is a testament to this. And the Spatual? Dude come on. The ski is revolutionary. Who would have thought a reverse camber reverse side cut ski would rock in the pow? And, for the record, deep pow is where it is supposed to be skied and where the manufacturer recommends it to be skied. Inabilities to use pieces of equipment does not merit them as “Worst 5 Skis in Recent Memory”. If you cant swim stay out of the pool.
February 11th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Yo honkey, I grew up in Brooklyn and I’ll hog-whip you if I ever see you dis my Spats and LPs in person. I huck huge in camo pants and ride it out switch. I bet you ski girl skis with flowers on the tops. Brothas be wildin son.
February 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
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February 12th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
How very dare you criticise the Volant Spatula. What a temerity. I’ll have you clapped in irons and soundly rogered for that sort of behaviour.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Wow so much controversy i cant believe it
I thought all skis sucked.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I know a guy who rips the BC and inbounds on Goode carbon fiber ski’s.
Oh well. Opinions are like elbows.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Rocky I hate you.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:28 am
flatlandcheese, I hate you. Rocky, I hate you. on the other hand, whiskytango loves you both.
February 24th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
You must have never done any of the following:
1) Skied anything other than groomers
2) Hucked your meet
3) striaghtlined in two feet of pow
4) skied the pontoons
The pontoons are one of the sickest powder skis on the market. Why don’t you get of the groomers and gain a taste of the chronic pow-pow at Alta or Snowbird.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Alta Pow, you must have never done any of the following:
1)Learned to spell before arguing over some dumbass skis on the intrawebzors!!!11
March 1st, 2007 at 8:59 am
whiskyTango, you need to stop doing the following:
1) Sheep.
March 1st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Are you a ski instructor and friends with snowball? You could never ski the spatula or anything lighter in weight (that would be any ski). You on 125cm roc X rentals? Have fun talkin smack and skiing pack!! Dont you get cliffed out anytime soon now ya hear boay!!
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
You have no idea what you are talking about. You should not be writing ski reviews.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
The fact that you think that you have to “lean over 30 degrees” to get the scream xtra hots to carve means you have no idea at all how to ski. Seriously, you totally exposed what a completely flaming gaper you are in the first sentence of the review. I ski screams and lay trenches everywhere. Know what you are talking about before you open your fat facial portal. Douchebag.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Most of these I can’t comment on. I actually wasn’t a huge fan of the hots, but not for the reason he mentions. I found them too chattery in bad, cruddy conditions, great on groomers if that’s your thing. However, I own a pair of 8800 Legends, which I believe is the model the year before the Legend Pro and these skis are awesome! Closest thing I found to an all around, diversable, all mountain ski. Fat enough, not too fat, you can ski anything. It’s a fast ski and you feel everything, like you should with a performance ski. Sounds to me this guy just can’t handle real skis.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
How can you take a man seriously if his bio is accompanied by a pic of him trying to butt-slam a dog? I say trying because apparently he can’t lift him that high…
January 30th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Rocky,
Holy Shit, Dude! You have obviously never been on a pair of spat’s in the pow. I skied a pair to day in knee deep fluff, windblown faces, sections chopped to shit by boarder bro’s and sis’s. I skied these at my home mountain Bear Valley, Ca. My first test run was Tortilla Flat- waterfall. My friends (2 boarders, and a ex-pro skier, race coach, and a damn fine powder hound) were laughing and giving me a hard time after our last ski day (yesterday). We dropped in, within 4 turns I knew i might be on the path to Nirvana. I ripped those steep, powder laden slopes up. I skied at a level I never thought I would achieve watching all these folks on fat boards. With each run my confidence grew, within six runs i could not be stopped or caught. I ripped everything i skied, Hallieakala, West Ridge, strawberry fields, etc. etc. I am 51 and was able to do top to bottom no-stop runs all day. Usually i stop 5 or 6 times to breath and give my legs a rest. Today, that was not necessary, these boards are damn near effortless. You slip them in to turn and carve out on your tails. I ripped steep faces on to benches where normally I header in, and transitioned nicely, you can cut up a fall line, or jet down it. You do not sit back on these bad boys, you stand over your ski and attack the mountain. Yes these skis will ski slow in the pow, they work fine. But in all honestly once you feel them while ripping at high speeds, it’s doubtful they will ever be skied that way.
I have been skiing for forty years in California, Washington, Colorado, and Utah. These fucking ski’s have changed my life. I bought them by mid-afternoon, i couldn’t really afford a new pair of ski’s right now considering I have only worked 4 days in the last two months (I have been logging some days on the mountain), but there was no way I could afford to pass on the finest powder board i have ever skied. I am now looking for a pair for my wife and son.
Though I will say everyone is entitled to their own opinions, yours is just really bizarre.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Hey rocky, get out of your trusty lee pipes, get some acne medicine and pray that your balls drop. If you even are a skier, WE DON’T WANT YOU!!!!! You’ve obivously never skied on Spats, they’re legit. McConkey helped develop them, and I’m pretty sure he’s a better skier than you. Pull out the buttplug.