Featured picture: Daniel Ronnback // Skier: Tanner Corridor
The model you recognize and love for creating skis that break the mould, encourage creativity and revolutionized the game of snowboarding have entered the boot market with Armada’s first lineup of trainers—dubbed AR ONE. For therefore many athletes, and on a regular basis skiers, a ski day will be soured when all you’re occupied with are your boots. Possibly they don’t match correctly, possibly they’re not stiff sufficient or provide you with horrible shin bang. Whether or not you play predominantly in terrain parks, on prime of huge peaks or a combination of each, the AR ONE boot collection has a boot for each type of rider.
By conducting an in-depth, business large survey, Armada recognized a number of key issues skiers have with their boots: Poor heel maintain, shin and toe bang, liner discomfort, an absence of direct and exact steering and continuous compromising between efficiency and luxury. To appease all of those boot gripes, Armada got here up with a hybrid cabrio development that takes all the consolation points of a three-piece boot and packages it in a four-buckle design to optimize efficiency.
You’ll discover the AR ONE solely has three buckles and the center buckle is the star of the present. Dubbed by the model as a Slingshot Buckle, the twine related to this buckle makes use of muti-vector pressure to drag the heel again into place with out creating uncomfortable stress on prime of the foot. When that is mixed with a progressive flex, most of the boot points listed above are solved. The boots additionally function a reminiscence match shell and liner, a 50-millimeter powerstrap, replaceable {hardware} and the 130 flex particularly consists of half tech toe inserts for uninhibited backcountry freeriding.
Simply as Armada makes use of its athletes in ski growth, the group—together with business legends Tanner Corridor and Quinn Wolferman— was closely concerned within the design and testing of the AR ONE collection to make sure it’s a boot that may face up to essentially the most excessive calls for of energy, match, consolation and efficiency. From large mountain athletes to the group of religious freestyle skiers, Armada’s dedication to creating a boot for all is on full show with the AR ONE lineup.
That includes a 100-millimeter final in a wide range of flexes—90, 100, 110, 120 and 130—the AR ONE assortment is now accessible in restricted portions and sizes at choose retailers with the entire assortment going stay in Fall of 2025 with measurement choices from 23.5 as much as 29.5. Irrespective of the place you predominantly play on the mountain, the AR ONE boot collection has a boot for each type of rider.
