Candide yards?!?!?!

the yards are a really nice park specific ski.. as for the size.. what is your riding ability? that factors into you ski size quite a bit

I have coreUPT colby's. From what Ive heard all of coreupts park skis are fairly similar. Ill do a little write-up of what I know

Yards- least stiff
TJ- stiffer
Colby- stiffest

Yard- not symmetrical
TJ- symmetrical
colby- symmetrical



Weights - All Ski weights are like 3kg-3.5kg depending on the size.

Durability- My colbys have held up niceley, my other skis have been in far worse condition for the amount of time ive had them.

Profile- All skis in their park lineup have bow-like amounts of camber. They are all fairly stiff also (colbys especially) so your going to get huge amounts of pop.


hope that helps. Dont hesitate to buy coreupt, everyone who has bought a pair loves them. Just dont buy the dynastar-upts.

Those aren't available anymore. The dynastar rebrands were in their line 3-4 years ago, when they just started.

yeah I know, Its probaly not the case anywhere else but my shop carries brand new dynastar-upts.

^^so a 09/10 coreupt candide Yard or 09/10 colby west pro would be ok ?

Well Ill tell you about the colbys. I just know the yards are slightly less stiff and have a different sidecut, but the camber on both is either very very similar or exactly the same.


Colbys- allright so im about 6'3-6'4 and 190... Id say I have a pretty strong lower body from skiing/biking and even for a big guy like me, the colbys are very stiff. Personally, I LOVE stiff skis (I race so im used to stiff skis anyway), they are much easier to control and in the case of the colbys (because of massive amounts of camber) they are very very poppy also. Im sure someone could force the colby's into buttering but I think it would be pretty damn hard to do. As far as being able to charge through shitty snow, these will do it for you...however they are terrible in powder or fresh snow (as they should be). Mine are center mounted and they are fantastic to carve with also.

CoreUPT's durability has been really nice for me. They are well made and if you buy them on the outlet your going to be getting a lot more than you paid for in my opinion.

Quick summary - The colbys are super stiff and super poppy. They are a (what I consider) lightweight ski, but not to lightweight as to sacrifice durability. One thing you will get with the colbys that you wont get in the yards is a symmetrical sidecut. I just started to get into pipe and the colbys do not dissapoint during steep and fast transitions.

I really love mine. If you have ever used the volkl walls, then you will find that these are very similar. I have no regrets in buying mine.

I hope that covered everything, I typed pretty fast.

oh yeah, All of this is done on 09/10 coreupt colbys. Also, the first 1620 in competition by TJ was done on yards.

walls are not very stiff though...i'd say like 6/10 stiff. i wish mine were stiffer. but its true about them being similar, colby west posted somewhere on here that he designed the coreupts after walls because he liked the volkls so much.