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GEAR:30

Reviewer Reports: New Head Kores, Ski Boots, & One Age-Old Question

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Luke Koppa sits down with Jonathan Ellsworth and Kara Williard to discuss just a small portion of all the gear we’ve been testing lately. We cover Head’s overhauled collection of Kore skis; Jonathan makes a confession after he took some carving skis off piste; Kara and Luke discuss a bunch of boots they’ve been testing; Jonathan poses an age-old question about boot flexes; Kara breaks down the setups she’s bringing to Japan; and much more.

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Atomic Hawx Ultra XTD Boa & Salomon Shift Alpha Boa (7:42)

Head Kaliber BOA2 (11:45)

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Tecnica Zero G Tour Pro W (22:31)

4FRNT MSP CC (27:21)

Dynastar M-Pro Skis (29:49)

New Head Kores (33:10)

Head Supershape e-Titan: Carving Ski or Mogul Ski (37:44)

Nordica Enforcer 104 (44:40)

Kara’s Japan Ski Quiver (47:24)

Summit Products We're Excited About (51:41)

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0:00.0

Howdy everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network.

0:12.9

As always, we are coming to you from our home base in Elevation Hotel in Mount Crested

0:17.9

Butte. My name is Luke Kappa. I am the managing editor at Blister, and you can check out everything we are doing and

0:24.6

reviewing over at blister review.com.

0:28.3

There, you can read all of our latest reviews, listen to all of our latest podcasts,

0:33.4

become a Blister Plus member, and a whole lot more.

0:36.5

On that note, I want to give it a special shout

0:38.5

out to our newest blister plus members. This week, we've got Grant from Australia, Freddie from

0:44.7

Inglewood, and Seth from right here in Gunnison. Glad to have you all on board. In today's

0:51.9

episode, I sit down with Jonathan Ellsworth and Kara Williard to discuss

0:55.7

just a small portion of all the gear that we've been testing lately. We cover heads overhauled

1:02.2

collection of core skis. Jonathan makes a confession after he took some carving skis off-piece.

1:08.7

Kara and I discuss a bunch of boots we've been testing. Jonathan

1:12.6

poses an age-old question about boot flexes and much more. Today's episode of Gear 30 is brought

1:19.8

to you by Carve, which all of us at Blister have been using on a daily basis this season.

1:24.9

Now, if you're like us, you know that there's always room to improve when it

1:28.5

comes to skiing, and getting better at any aspect of skiing always makes it more fun. And Carve's latest

1:34.8

system, Carve 2, is designed to help anyone do just that. It clips onto any boot in seconds,

1:41.7

records tons of useful metrics while you're skiing in any terrain, and

1:45.6

then turns that into personalized coaching and advice.

1:49.6

We've all been using Carve this season to improve both our own skiing and the content

1:53.7

of our ski reviews, and we've all been really impressed by the results so far.

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