Welcome to the home of 2024 - 2025 ski gear on Newschoolers. We've had another incredible year at our Gear Week at Banff Sunshine village. There's a ton of content from there, in this guide, with videos of our Best Of Test picks both within and on YouTube.
Best Of Test Park
Best Of Test All-Mountain
Best Of Test Powder
Best Of Test Outerwear
We also have a ton of new in-depth Roofbox Reviews of some of the year's best new products. You can find them all here.
Rooted in '80s Motocross Americana, 100% is one of the world's premium goggle brands. More recently, they have been taking the snowsports world by storm and can be found on the faces of elite riders like Nico Porteous, Malou Petersen, and Max Palm. Most likely, you've already seen a pair, or ten, of these floating arou…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for 1000 Skis.
1000 is Swedish craftsmanship, reinventing the reason people buy skis. The core values of sustainability, quality and community, are at the forefront of the 1000s Skis ethos. 1000 skis are made with the highest quality materials and all of our skis are manufactured using 100% renewable energy. "We have from day o…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for 4FRNT.
With feedback from our Team and skiers like you, we have designed and engineered these skis to ensure there is an award winning option for every skier out there.
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Armada.
Armada is bringing plenty of freshies to the plate for '24-25. Perhaps the most notable headline is the overhaul of the wider skis in the ARV/ARW collection, with a new ARV 106 and an ARV 112 to replace the old 115. With two graphic options in each shape (ARV & W share identical construction), there's plenty to cho…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Armada outerwear.
Armada has been steadily stepping up their outerwear game for some time now. We're now confident in saying they make some of the best outerwear in the game, which lasts well and looks good, while at the same time offering all the technical features you could ever want. Whether you ski backcountry, resort, park, or stre…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Atomic Skis.
Atomic The entire Bent line gets new, more environmentally friendly cores. The 110 keeps the same shape while the Bent 100, perhaps the biggest seller in the family, gets a new shape too, moving it closer to the 110 with more rocker both tip and tail. The Bent 120 gets some tweaks too, but the slightly stiffer constru…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Black Crows
Pleasure follows the movement of nature. It winds it's way through this infinite source of action. Tiny mountain travelers, the vertigo of happiness can be read in our eyes and on our lips. Unique for our singularities and united by that force we call ski culture.
Live The Moment. Blizzard skis are back with some of the most surprising skis of our ski test, with our testers taken aback by how much they enjoyed shapes that wouldn't be their normal style of ski.
Booster Straps are probably the best thing you can do for your day's skiing. The idea itself is, as the best ideas tend to be, remarkably simple. Adding elasticity to the power strap of the boot to allow for dynamic forward pressure while retaining lateral stability. Designed to increase performance in race boots, the …
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Dalbello
Dalbello, founded in 1974 by the shoemaker Signor Sandro Dalbello, are the Italian ski boot experts. To this day, both the R&D and production facilities are located close to the Dolomites mountains in Asolo/ Treviso, part of the sportsystem district of Asolo and Montebelluna, which is the holy grail of ski boot dev…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Dynastar.
The big news at Dynastar is in the MFrees. A new MFree 112 replaces the previous 118mm version, and while that might seem close to the 108, it has a longer turn radius so it's more of a straightliner's kind of ski. We're hearing rumours of MFree Ti versions too but haven't seen them yet. The 108 returns but with a new …
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Elan.
ELAN is a dedicated ski manufacturer in the Slovenian Alps, with almost 80 years of experience building the best skis in the world, for friends and families who live the skiing lifestyle and are all about good times in the mountains. Handcrafted in the Slovenian alps.
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Faction Skis.
Faction are sticking with the tried and tested formula, though some of the names have changed. The Mana series is no more, with the wider skis becoming part of the Studio line. The Prodigy series returns with only graphical updates. The 'X' versions of the skis are identical construction with different topsheets, and a…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Icelantic.
For the 24/25 Season, we are proud to announce that we have completely revamped our highly decorated and top-selling Nomad & Maiden Freeride Collection. Due to their significant success and sheer number of models, this will be our largest redesign yet! With this revamp, we stay true to the freeride origins of these…
Intuition offers the best premium boot liners in the world, setting the standard in moldable liner technology. Having grown the collection for many years, Intuition made the call last season that it was time to simplify all their innovation into a more compact, easy-to-understand offering. The 2025 lineup continues…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for J Skis.
Play, for freestyle fun Charge, for those who like to point it Explore, for those who value the up as much as the down #itsjustskiing
K2 is the original American Ski and Snowboard Brand, founded in 1962 in Washington State. It started with a shop. A garage. A barn. An island. It started with an idea. It started with belief. It started with madness and mistakes. From a garage brand to a garage brand gone global. For now and always, K2 continues to thr…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for K2 Skis.
At K2, everything freestyle is new. There is a whole new lineup of Reckoner/ReckonerWs, ranging from 102 to 124. There is also a complete overhaul of the construction and new widths too. They now run 102, 110, 114 & 124. Perhaps most exciting, the 114mm width is Karl Fostvedt's pro model, with a signature soft flex…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Line Skis.
Line made big changes to their freestyle skis in '23/24, so that lineup carries over with new graphics and a new Bacon 122 thrown into the mix. The Chronics, Bacons, Blends, TBLs, and TWalls all return unchanged. The Blade Optic series drops the Blade moniker and is now just called Optic, with the narrowest model, the …
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Marker bindings.
In 1952, Hannes MARKER introduced the world‘s first ski binding with safety release. In the 1970s, the M-Series revolutionized the binding market with automatic heel release. Since 2007, MARKER has been setting new standards in the freeride and freestyle segments with innovations like the Duke PT and the continuo…
It’s for all who don’t just ski, but who love to ski. For every skier who makes each run one to remember. And for the people who pass their powder-packed hearts down from one generation to the next. We’re for any and every skier who lives for all-mountain adventure. This goes out to the boots and the …
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for ON3P skis.
ON3P skis was born, in part at least, right here on Newschoolers. Handbuilding skis out of their factory in Portland, Oregon, ON3P are a true, core freeskiing brand. Bossman Scott Andrus is a longtime Newschoolers member and a regular contributor to the forums. Discover the 2025 ON3P skis collection, including reviews,…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide for Phaenom Footwear.
Phaenom’s MO is to catalyze the transition to circularity within outdoor footwear - blending sustainable business with product performance and style. It's a bold mission statement and it all starts with the launch of two ski boots, the Freeride (FR) and the Freestyle (FS). Both boots are offered in a range of fle…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide for Rab
More than forty years since our founding, we continue to find inspiration in the untamed spirit of the mountains where we climb, the friendships we forge on the peak, and our enduring mission: to grow our community of Mountain People and equip them for adventure.
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Rossignol Skis.
The big news at Rossignol is that there are no more Black Ops. Well, technically the trusty 98mm ski that has gone under many monikers, is now called 'Super Black Ops' and comes in a retro neon blue and pink guise. The Black Ops 118 is replaced by a Sender Free 118, which shares similar construction with the 110mm vers…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Salomon.
Salomon are back, although they are seemingly doing their utmost not to advertise it. There's a new QST X, a 116mm lightweight powder ski that could be a great option for touring. And then there's the new secret ski that we've all been waiting on for what feels like a decade now. It's the 106mm underfoot Depart 1.0 and…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Scott.
Photos: Hanne Lundin Scott is back with a whole new lineup of freestyle-inspired skis, ranging from 88 to 116mm. The new SEA ski collection brings a new spirit to the brand's lineup, aimed at skiers looking for fun, no matter the snow or weather conditions. Scott calls them “playful freeride skis”. …
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Season Eqpt.
From our equipment to our imagery and messaging, we aim to highlight the common ground between all skiers and snowboarders equally. Amateurs to professionals, you and old, humans of all shapes, sizes and colors, we're a community that celebrates winter and the joy (and discomfort) that comes with it. Cold, dark, wet…
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Surface.
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide for Vishnu.
Discover the full 2025 Vishnu skis collection, including reviews, specs and pictures.
The 2024 - 2025 Newschoolers Gear Guide and Reviews for Volkl Skis.
Built to win. There's nothing much new in the freestyle line at Völkl, but the graphics this year are the best in forever. They remind us of OG Völkl Walls and Bridges, and we're hyped.
