Faction Mana 2 Skis 2024

Premium All-Mountain Twin Tip

The Mana 2 is the ideal tool to transition from all-mountain, to backside, to park. This is a high-quality, high-performance craft that effortlessly responds to your movements and your commands. Its lightweight Poplar Core construction helps the ski to pop off booters, butter over rollers, and whip effortlessly between turns. Yet the the Rubber/Carbon stomp pad keeps it strong enough to take hit after hit.

Faction Mana 2 Skis 2024 Features & Specifications:

• Flex Rating (1/10): 7
• ROCKER / CAMBER PROFILE: Tip and tail rocker + traditional camber, for the perfect blend of high performance edge hold, easy turn initiation, and float in soft snow.
• WOOD CORE: Lightweight Poplar - Poplar is a light-colored, medium-weight, durable softwood that flexes and pops nicely as well as having a whole load of vibration absorption capabilities. Used as the only wood in this core, it allows the ski to pop, butter and stomp like an all-mountain freestyle ski and also have enough torsional stability to grip impressively on the downhill.
• Quality: Quality is sustainability. Faction crafts durable skis for their fans to enjoy year after year. Using the most sophisticated machinery on the market, Faction rigorously tests their materials & construction to ensure their skis stand up to the toughest abuse.
• Tail Shape: Premium All-Mountain Twin Tip
• Topsheet: Scratch resistant topsheet - gloss
• Carbon Weave: Between 8 and 12 strips of carbon, sandwiching either side of the ski’s woodcore, are laid unidirectionally, providing extra stability to the ski, without adding bulk to the build. Each carbon strip is woven into the fiberglass to provide strength and stiffness in the full length of the ski.
• Carbon and Rubber Stomp Pad: A 600mm-long, 15mm-wide carbon/rubber reinforcement underfoot, above the edge, adds strength where it matters most to this performance oriented ski. In addition to protecting the wood core from heavy-duty impact on rails, the carbon and rubber inlay adds stability and vibration absorption under your boots, so that stomped landings feel better, both for you and your skis.
• Edges: XL 2.5 mm edges, compared to 2 mm industry average, built to last
• Sidewall: Full Strength Sidwall, a construction that places strips of protective material along the sides of each core, between the edge and the topsheet. Sidewalls provide the best possible edge hold and stability when the ski is engaged in a turn as well as protecting the woodcore, edges and topsheet from impact and outside damage.
• Sidecut: Elliptical Sidecut is made up of a longer radius underfoot and shorter radii in the tip and tail of the ski. The long radius underfoot means you can pivot faster and easier, while a shorter radius in the tip and tail result in easier turn initiation. This sidecut allows for a wide variety of turn lengths, angles and mounting positions
• Micro-cap: Micro-cap construction is a hybrid of a premium, sandwich sidewall construction fused with a lightweight, durable cap construction. With micro-cap, the sandwich construction provides awesome edge hold and torsional stability while the ski’s topsheet wraps around and meets the sidewall, protecting the fragile joint that can be prone to chipping.
• Flex: Heavy rocker is best complemented by solid, stiffer tips and tails, to help settle the skis and power through variable snow. Additionally, the stiff tips absorb more vibration when skiers touch down after going airborne. Just add a touch more flex underfoot and it allows the skis to load up and POP on request
• Warranty: Two-year warranty, backed by Faction's global, around-the-clock customer care team
• Recycled Materials: Faction is working with their production partners to eliminate material waste. Faction now mixes base, sidewall and topsheet material scraps back into the raw material used for production, reducing carbon emissions while ensuring the same level of quality & durability. As a fun fact, by integrating recycled materials into their ski bases, Faction reduced the ecological impact of their bases by 75%.
• Locally Sourced Materials: In an effort to reduce the impact of their supply chain, Faction strives to source materials from European companies that are based near their factories.
• Sustainable Wood Core: Our poplar, beech and ash cores are sourced from the forests that are growing near their European factories, eliminating the carbon cost of transporting raw materials across great distances. their raw materials are FSC accredited. This means that the forests from which their wood is sourced are managed to support environmental and societal sustainability.
• 100% Renewable Energy (add Austrian manuf. partner): This ski is produced in a cutting-edge facility that runs on electrical power that is 100% renewable. Additionally, its heating energy comes solely from biomass. The factory no longer uses oil, resulting in annual CO2 emissions reductions of a whopping 10 million kilograms.