Men's Faction Studio 1 (2024) skis

High-Performance Freestyle Park Ski with Wood Core and Carbon Reinforcements

The Faction Studio 1, designed in partnership with Faction's team of freestyle athletes, is a park-specific freestyle ski combining precision performance and effortless style. Its poplar and ash core ensures lightness and rigidity, while the carbon reinforcements under the binding zone resist heavy impacts.

The ski's symmetrical shape makes it easy to switch, while the carbon weave guarantees torsion resistance without extra bulk. The 7 mm XL sidewall offers excellent edge hold and superior wood core protection.

Benefits :

• Designed in collaboration with freestyle athletes for precision performance in the park.
• Poplar and ash core for an ideal blend of lightness and rigidity, reinforced with carbon to resist impact.
• Symmetrical shape for effortless switch skiing, carbon weave for torsion resistance and XL sidewall for superior edge hold.

Technical features:

• Symmetrical Twin: Fully symmetrical twin-tip shape, combined with a slight rocker in the tip and tail and pronounced camber, offers skiers maximum precision and grip.
• Flex Boat: The more pronounced rocker is complemented by strong, rigid tips and tail, which help stabilize the skis and prepare them for variable snow conditions. What's more, the stiff tips absorb more vibration when skiers land after jumps. By adding a little more flex underfoot, skis can be loaded and bounced on demand.
• Poplar core: a soft, light-colored wood of moderate weight and strength, with excellent flexibility and remarkable vibration-absorbing capacity. When used as the sole material in the core, it enables the ski to gain momentum with torsional stability that ensures impressive downhill grip.
• XL 2.5 mm edges: 2.5 mm edges are 35% higher than our standard 1.8 mm edges, which are already very strong. This increased steel thickness provides skiers with skis that can withstand more intensive use and last longer.
• Carbon/rubber reinforcement: a 600 mm long by 15 mm wide carbon/rubber reinforcement is placed under the foot, above the edge, to provide extra strength where it counts most in terms of this ski's performance.
• Full-surface carbon fibers: each of these carbon strips is interwoven with fiberglass to ensure uniform strength and rigidity along the entire length of the ski.
• Full Strenght Sidewall construction: full-strength sidewall construction involves applying layers of protective material along the edges of the sidewall, between the edge of the ski and the topsheet. The edges provide maximum grip and stability when the ski is turning, while protecting the wood core, edges and outer surface from external impact and damage.
• Weight: 3.3 kg
• Don't forget the SKI-N-GO attachment for easy transport of your skis and poles! You'll find the different colors available on the SKI-N-GO brand page on Alpinstore.

Eco-friendly :

• Eco-sourced wood cores: wood from forests close to the Faction factories in Europe.
• Factory powered 100% by renewable energies
• Local raw materials: to reduce our impact, Faction buys its raw materials from European companies located close to their factories.
• Recycled materials: scraps of soles, edges and topsheets are reused during production to reduce the carbon footprint.