Armada Skis 2026: The First Look
Armada is serving up lovely graphics and rad skis this upcoming season. Are we shocked? Actually not. However our resident cool child in school is continuous to get extra rad by the yr. Genuine to their core, this line of skis is a few of Armada’s most well-rounded and speaks to the large unfold of Armada followers on the market. Everybody from the core freestyle skier, to the rad dad who likes a cool ski. Dive into the brand new skis (and different gear) beneath, and benefit from the tasty new graphics.
What’s New
The large information is the Armada AR One ski boot. We’ll do a deeper dive in our new ski boot preview, however the fast rundown is a group of 5 new boots. An AR One 130 and 110 with the premium liner, together with a 120, 100, and 90 flex choice. The boot is a combo of an overlap type and cabrio type boot, making an attempt to mix the lateral transmission overlap boots supply, with the progressive, clean flex of three-piece boots. The principle function to callout is the very cool “slingshot” buckle over the instep. The slingshot type makes use of two attachment factors to realize further torque when pulling the buckle tight, and rising heel maintain as such.
On the ski facet, there’s a pair new key fashions from Armada to be enthusiastic about from their zero assortment and park ski facet.
A brand new ARV 106 Ti. This takes the mould of the mega enjoyable ARV 106 and provides their ATB-X tapered steel sheet. It’s the steel within the Declivity, mashed into the mould of the ARV. Consider the previous ARV 106 UL, however reverse. This ski will nonetheless be drifty and pivot-y, however far more planted and charge-y.
There’s additionally a brand new Kimbo. A really distinctive ski with a real twin form and batwing formed tail. It’s a park ski that doesn’t fairly appear like a park ski.
For all of the freestylers on the market, the Edollo will get a revamp this yr. Going to a narrower waist width (Henrik has gravitated to having fun with narrower skis recently), together with w3dgewall sidewalls underfoot, the brand new ski is extra sturdy and extra nimble, whereas retaining the all-mountain versatility in a real twin.
Different Highlights
New graphics for the ARV and ARW sequence. The ladies’s line is dropping a girls’s graphic for the 106 and 112, so transfer to the totally unisex ARV line for these big-mountain skis. The ladies’s skis are an identical to the boys’s simply in these extra restricted sizes.
The black ARV within the center is a “Black Version” graphic, which will likely be obtainable in each mannequin. Utterly the identical internally, only a smooth, monochromatic graphic.
And, new Declivity and Reliance graphics.
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