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The Big Air is yet another good looking freestyle ski from Movement, with an almost mid mounted binding. 
Model: Evariste Big Air Manufacturer's Description: "The Big Air totally upsets time and space. With this ski, your most radical tricks will float in the air. You feel as if you were on a white cloud near paradise. This fiery ski offers an exceptional touch on the snow. It belongs to an unusual generation of ski. You know what you have to do now : tame them, in the air and on the snow, and request the impossible." Ski-Review's verdict: Skiing on the Evariste Big Air for the first time after other skis is a little like the first day out I had on the Zag Freeride BC (the first ski with a mid mounted binding that I had ever tried). Movement’s Big Air park ski is light and as you would expect, extremely well balanced in the air with plenty (and I mean plenty) of pop off the lip. After musing over exactly why Movement had chosen to put barbed wire graphics on the tips and tails of the Big Air ski (something true of last years debut model), I found these to be a little more air friendly than the ever so slightly softer Joystick alone - my legs feeling as if they were not contained by skis yet not so much as to give me the feeling I was hurtling towards the ground wearing nothing but ski boots on my feet. Piste skiing on the Big Air was not a terrific experience, but it was by no means bad either. In GS+ radius turns the Big Airs held remarkably well, but anything shorter will leave you wanting. I made the effort to search out the irregularities in the piste and piste edges to spend as much time in the air or riding switch on the way home as I possible could. Don't let the name fool you into thinking these will not perform in the steeps and the much fabled "back country". A wider waist than a large amount of its siblings and a strong build (seems what the barbed wire hints at too) remains this ski performs off the beaten track too.
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