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The most underated ski company.. EVER!

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jsnow
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Surface for sure, no one ever really talks about them. But they make a sick ski the LL2s are f---ing amazing, super chill owners. sick team. over all they should be the talk of the town for the skis that they make.
Jul 15 2009 12:04PM
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Valind
Posts: 4358 - Karma: 17
amazing skis.
Dec 30 2009 1:13AM
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wrichmond
Posts: 562 - Karma: 369
Fatypus skis are supposed to be awesome.
Dec 30 2009 2:23AM
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speightphoto
Posts: 182 - Karma: 64
elans are not that great.
but i do agree that their marketing sucks
Dec 30 2009 2:30AM
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s.g.
Posts: 355 - Karma: 11
Well not really.Yes, Elan has a horrible twin tip marketing,but as a producer of race skis,snowboards, ski jumping skis,nordic skis,they are one of strongest companies.Allthought that's nothing compared to what they used to be.They were world company no.1 few years back.
Dec 30 2009 2:03PM
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Obie.
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yea delorme rides fatypus i think, look sweet
Dec 30 2009 5:07PM
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Obie.
Posts: 1741 - Karma: 3,646
I would have to say icelantic or bluehouse, i would love to get a pair of da' nollies or Mr's
Dec 30 2009 5:09PM
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yuck
Posts: 8384 - Karma: 2,090
the elan ads with brad holmes are fucking awful!

he's wearing a suit that looks like its from sportchek. and the graphics on elan skis suck too.

as for the skis themself, never really heard much of them or ridden them myself, but people seem to say theyre good.
Dec 30 2009 5:47PM
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griffin.paisley
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fortitude.
Dec 30 2009 5:55PM
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T.L.
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Another vote for ELAN!  Not really a huge fan of most of their graphics but I like my puzzles.  I get tons of compliments on the graphics on the lift and shit.  Definitely seems like they're trying to get back in the game and into the park scene.
Dec 30 2009 6:07PM
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JahJahBinks
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Yeah I wouldnt even know what Elan was if Chris Laker didnt ride at my mountain.
Dec 30 2009 7:09PM
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304NordMan
Posts: 2983 - Karma: 525
fatypus
Dec 30 2009 7:12PM
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I_Am_Mod
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i own a pair of movement joysticks, second hand; they've been abused for 1y+ and after some wax + minor baserepair the ski looked like new! even the topsheet looks like its only a week old !!
(the guy skied them at least once/week)
Dec 30 2009 7:21PM
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bumblebeetuna
Posts: 218 - Karma: 57
i was gonna say that elans are underrated and overlooked by people looking for new skis
Dec 30 2009 11:06PM
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Walter.
Posts: 215 - Karma: 450
Surface!
Dec 30 2009 11:37PM
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SirFryanator
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Straight from the competiton: glosticks are going to be one of the dopest skis next year. My new twins are the most fun pair of skis i've ridden on no doubt.
Dec 31 2009 12:27AM
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double_D
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they paid u to say that huh?
Dec 31 2009 3:21AM
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StupidDeep
Posts: 103 - Karma: 9
kootenays super nice and not very expensive i guess but there freeride and there park ski are really nice skis
Dec 31 2009 3:46AM
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TheHundreds
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Surface for sure. Im in SLC right now and Everyone and there mom is so HYPED on Surface. Its Redic. Looking at there whole line at an undisclosed area and seeing who runs it and who reps it makes me even stoked on them. Surface is going to blow up and make every other company try to catch up to what they are doing. Keep murdering and progressing the SKI industry Surface. So hyped.
Dec 31 2009 3:58AM
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shragler
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Elan seems to building. but really, not so good! just took a shipment of all their new skis, and honestly I wouldnt sell them to my mother! Seeing as they should know what they are doing, we expect more and so dissappointed. good luck next year! Hire somone else coz your staff fails you!! Elan = not freeskiing. Elan = racing maybe prob more = gapers. Glen Plake needs a better company
Dec 31 2009 6:00AM
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thejackal1177
Posts: 3434 - Karma: 2,724
THIS, there skis are amazing and there custom graphics are epic. and nick is the man
Dec 31 2009 8:08AM
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attorv
Posts: 592 - Karma: 44

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Dec 31 2009 12:25PM
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BjornR
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salomon is really underrated seriously!
Dec 31 2009 12:33PM
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crazyskir05
Posts: 27 - Karma: 24
No,
Dec 31 2009 1:31PM
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teleak
Posts: 2251 - Karma: 105
^^^
Dec 31 2009 2:01PM
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Canuker
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bluehouse and boone are pretty unknown and not even talked about much ont he forums

ON3P and faction are definetly up there, maybe even icelantic

im going to disagree with everyone saying surface, they are very talked about( as this thread clearly shows) they even have adds on the forums.

Dec 31 2009 2:30PM
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wtfbanger
Posts: 67 - Karma: 50
bluehouse
Dec 31 2009 4:28PM
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SNOWPARKCHlLE
Posts: 2047 - Karma: 6,727
bluehouse and faction
Dec 31 2009 4:28PM
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ted.d
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stockli makes some sick freestyle skis
Dec 31 2009 4:32PM
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tride
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Sorry, but Surface puts TAIL ROCKER on their park skis (or whatever trendy term they have for it, it starts right behind the heelpiece)! They should win "worst design idea... EVER."

Tail rocker is fine for powder skis, but for something meant to be primarily used in terrain parks (hardpack), I don't know what the hell they are thinking. Hopefully they figure it out soon because otherwise their skis look pretty decent.
Dec 31 2009 4:55PM
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line4u
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Fatypus, Icelantic RMU, CO represent.!!!!
Dec 31 2009 5:10PM
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nipples-the-cat
Posts: 643 - Karma: 28

burton used to be a good snowboard company but then all of the gapers found out about them... sad day burton suck now the quality went way down in there stuff.. but i heard there is a new company out called xterra skis

Dec 31 2009 5:15PM
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BShear66
Posts: 79 - Karma: 20
movement skiis are pretty good. Apparently there pretty popular but I hadn't heard of them for a loooong time and they're solid.
Dec 31 2009 8:25PM
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FUUUCK
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prajekt
Dec 31 2009 9:09PM
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jksl
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i can still rip turns. shit's barely even rockered.
Jan 1 2010 6:18PM
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spliff.Life
Posts: 7847 - Karma: 1,549
Patagonia
Jan 1 2010 6:21PM
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bb_Skier
Posts: 158 - Karma: 63
+1
Jan 1 2010 6:29PM
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E.Durtschi
Posts: 250 - Karma: 203
The park ski is soo much fun this year the whatever rocker is in the tail isn't very noticable... if you haven't skied them yet then you should
Jan 1 2010 7:37PM
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bumblebeetuna
Posts: 218 - Karma: 57
what?
Jan 3 2010 11:10PM
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spen-cer
Posts: 1694 - Karma: 652
my dad tele skis and has like 4 pairs of these bad boys. so light. he loves em. a twin tip from goode would be pretty cool to ride
Jan 3 2010 11:13PM
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smuggs
Posts: 6561 - Karma: 1,375
new skis offer nothing to a skier aside from making them lazy as fuck, get some straight skis with full camber and ski like you know how to.
Jan 3 2010 11:29PM
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MikeTK
Posts: 549 - Karma: 126
never riden bluehouses.
but ive heard they're way sick!!
Jan 3 2010 11:32PM
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epic_line
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RMU


how can you guys say On3p, there advertisement all over the site and everyone talks about them.
Jan 3 2010 11:42PM
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Core-E
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 Tanka skies are so underated
Jan 3 2010 11:51PM
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ike.
Posts: 2292 - Karma: 93
haha movement is so small its no suprise you havent heard of em. they are sick though
Jan 3 2010 11:55PM
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Twinjibber77
Posts: 6239 - Karma: 2,354
Wordddd hahaha
Jan 3 2010 11:58PM
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SirStai
Posts: 253 - Karma: 15
I think Scott is a pretty cool company. Kind of hyphy and more underground as well now that they have TWall on their team.
Jan 4 2010 6:39AM
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heFF
Posts: 5786 - Karma: 4,456
I fucking love them! I've been ripping on Magic Sticks for a few months now and they are my favorite ski I've ever ridden! The bamboo core makes them soo fun on jumps..super snappy...and the new glowsticks (their 140 118 138 rockered pow ski) just dropped...can't wait till it dumps again in Utah to take them out!
Jan 4 2010 9:45AM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
I thought that was hilarious.

I also disagree with this thread. Surface is a small company on the rise. It is just taking longer to come about than say Armada, or Moment did. I think right now Dynastar is the most underrated company ever. For a list of reasons I only hold for myself.
Jan 4 2010 12:56PM
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MikeTK
Posts: 549 - Karma: 126
dynastar has just been around for such a long time.
people who ride park and stuff prob wont look into them as much as they would line or armada.
atomic seems that way too
Jan 4 2010 9:24PM
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Zvarenza_724
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Look At the goode website and check out the skiis who knew they made twin tips

http://www.goode.com/skisfreeride.htm#vision

Jan 4 2010 9:56PM
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