Line EP Pro freeride ski

The Line EP Pro is Eric Pollard’s creation, and the world’s fattest, most progressive freestyle specific powder ski, used for making the previously impossible tricks, now possible in the pow.

Pollard spends his days pioneering new ways to take today’s most progressive park tricks into the backcountry. The Line EP Pro is the ski designed to do just that. From cab 7’s off cliffs to high speed fakie GS turns in pow, Pollard demonstrates how his design of the world’s fattest, most progressive freestyle powder specific ski enables him to make the previously impossible, possible. The EP Pro has a tip and tail rocker with zero camber under boot. You will be surprised how well the EP Pro performs on hardpack.

THE DEVELOPMENT STORY BY ERIC:

"The concept came from my need for a ski that makes skiing backwards in powder easy. I find the most challenging aspect of skiing backwards in powder is digging your tails in and going over the bars.

The engineering came from a culmination of four years worth of prototype powder skis. We tested tons of different variations in length, width, tip height, shape, tip shape, early rise, early taper and flex. I went as far as to have Line send me skis with big rectangle tips and then used a jig saw the continually modify the shape. I also built cardboard models of the ski to get a better idea 3 dimensionally of different early rise variations. The early rise combined with the tip height, mounting point, symmetrical flex pattern and early taper in both tip and tail eliminate all risk of going over the bars. It is the best ski I have ever designed."

Specs:
Length: 185cm
Shape: 153-127-150
Sidecut: 15.9m

Technology:
ABS Sidewall Construction
Symmetric Flex
Fatty Base & Edge
Maple Macroblock Core
Sintered base
Early rise: Tip rise starts earlier, Tips effortlessly rises out of powder & stay on top
Early Taper: Widest point of sidecut starts tapering earlier in the tips, Reduces tail drag and hooking in powder
Thin Tip: Super thin core & sidewall in the tips, 50grams lighter per ski in the tips, Reduced swing weight