User Reviews

I tried them as a demo several times this year at Jay Peak. The ski inspired confidence in powder and allowed turns of all sizes with ease. I was able to experience powder skiing at Jay like never before. Smearing and all other powder type manouveres happened naturally where other wide wasted skis required more experience that I did not have and work to accomplish. The ski has a fairly durable base as I ran over several rocks and stumps that left only light surface scratches. A great beginner to intermediate powder ski IMO. As for an expert powder ski I cannot comment since I am not an expert powder skier. I have not skied enough days in powder to be anything more than a strong intermediate but with the Czar in powder I am a grinning strong intermediate that looks almost like an expert. My thumbs up on a recommended ski for east coast powder days. If I add a powder ski to my quiver it will be this ski.

 I tried the Czar on a spring-ish powder day.  They didn't want to go fast AT ALL.  They were way more comfortable in slow controlled turns, and wow were they comfortable making a lot of turns.  You can ski them aggressively as hell, so long as that means aggressively carving a lot of turns.  

 

I felt they were very engaging in the end of the turn... forcing you to make a complete, controlled turn.

 

I would not reccommend if you like to make McConkey (RIP) turns.  Obsethed is where its at for that style.

Hi All:
   I first tried these on a demo day on some work time off and just had to have them. They are simple fabulous, and now are my work ski of choice. In pow they are simply exceptional!!!
   If I was to get picky carve turns on very steep hardpack is tougher but doing groomers and the usual blacks/double blacks with bumps come and go just like on my skinny stiff Atomics. Highly recommended

I've skied it on very hard snow.  It sucked on very hard snow.  Too much rocker to be comfortably used on boilerplate.  I suspect it sucks less when the snow is more like snow and less like sintered ice.

Haven't skied it so my ratings are to be ignored (though there are very mixed posts on this forum so I thought 3 stars should do the job)...anyway:

 

My review of this ski was solely to comment on the fact that it was Initially in the "All-mountain" category.  Then it got moved to "Powder" and now "Big Mountain".  With a rockered tip maybe it should be in "Powder", especially given Meh's review that it "sucked" on hard snow.  Dunno? 

 

On another note, if rockering the tip is such a bad idea for a "Big Mountain" ski, why is the '10 Gotama doing it.  I definitely wanna see what this baby skis like vs. my Gotamas (which is actually a little too good on hard pack and therefore suffers a bit in deep snow).

 

This review was initially to voice the same issue ski-ra wrote in his second paragraph.

 

Now that the nomenclature of the Czar's category been fixed and I haven't skied it yet, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and give it full points... perhaps even after I ski it.

 

PS: The Edge Grip rating is not present while writing my review, a technical bug that's preventing me from giving the full five stars to everything.