DPS Koala 111 - Foundation

The Koala 111 fills a missing sweet spot within our freestyle family. As the middle child, it’s a fusion of its bigger and smaller siblings. At 111mm underfoot, it’s a great powder and soft snow width, but it’s a bit more friendly and versatile than the 118. It takes after the 103 with a flex profile that bends smoothly around the skier’s foot, making for intuitive turns in all conditions.

We’re proud that it arcs a nice turn on hard snow too, which is something we think is a hallmark of a great ski. It’s confident doing smooth butters with style, bouncing through trees, and is more than comfortable in the air. The Koala 111 is the ski you can rely on for fun freestyle skiing in all snow conditions.

The Koala skis are athlete driven. They began as a quest to make skis that were suited for the modern freeskier: playful, freestyle oriented, balanced, and yet still stable and hard-charging. We started five years ago with the Koala 119, and then made a second generation powder ski, the Koala 118, and an all-terrain Koala 103. These were a lot more maneuverable, arced a great turn, and were at home in all conditions.

All Koala skis are made with a poplar core, race quality bases, a textured polyamide top sheet for durability, and polyurethane sidewalls that optimize damping and impact resistance. For 2023 we changed the rocker line, the ski core, and the flex profile of our Koala 103. On snow it’s a completely different sensation. We went through a full winter of building skis in our Salt Lake City factory and testing them at Alta Ski Area, and then sent one last round of prototypes down to South America for the critical athlete sign off. Everyone was stoked, and it felt like five years of testing, tweaking, and skiing coming to fruition. 

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