The Ski 100 | Our Pick Of The Best Ski Gear For This Winter
Winter’s rolling around the corner, so that can only mean one thing: the Mpora Ski 100 is back. The Ski 100 is our selection of the latest and greatest skis, boots, bindings and accessories on the market. A chance for us here at Mpora to really geek out about what we feel is the most exciting ski kit out there for the 2021 – 2022 winter season.
From CAST’s epic Freetour Upgrade Kit, to Dalbello’s ludicrously lightweight Quantum Free 130 freeride boot and Nordica’s all-new novel way of creating a ski core designed solely for women in the Belle DC 78. Every product in the Ski 100 has an extremely interesting story behind it – impressive stuff, we might add, considering this could’ve been the year ski brands decide to rest on their laurels and just churn out last year’s kit.
In a wholly unprecedented year, where many ski resorts around the world were closing down, the Mpora crew managed to get out to Damüls in Austrian to test, review, and film this kit. In the process we came away with some of our finest video reviews we’ve ever produced (in my totally unbiased opinion, of course). Head over to our YouTube channel to check out these video reviews.
Then there was our studio shoot, shot in the beginning of December, which followed shortly after the selection process. Designed to give you the best view of each ski product included in the 100, we’re extremely proud of the levels that our in-house photography crew go to to ensure you’re getting vital shots of the equipment in question: Rocker / camber profile shots? Ski boot liner shots? Macro shots on the subtle fabric textures? You bet.
We were proud to, once again, partner up with our pals at the national youth charity Snow Camp and their inspirational young people. Snow Camp are on a mission to give young people from inner-city communities life-skills, training, mental health support, and assistance in gaining qualifications and employment by using skiing and snowboarding as a medium to gain all these essential skills.
The young people from Snow Camp really stepped up with the modelling of various ski wear and it’s great to hear about their journey into the wild world of skiing and snowboarding.
Right, that’s enough from me, I’ll stop nattering on about the Ski 100 and let you see it all for yourself. Have a safe winter.
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