K2 Disruption MTi

Suitable for: MALE

Categories:: Piste | Skis
Season:: 2020/2021

Editors’ Choice

K2 are very keen to point out that their Disruption series skis are designed as hard-turning piste skis and have zero race wannabe aspirations.

After telling us this, they then designed a Skicross-style race series called the Disruption Cup and invited a whole bunch of global rippers to chew up a specially-built course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Confused? Me too, momentarily.

Turns out the best thing with any ski is to ignore the flim-flam and just go for a ski, at which point it becomes clear that the lower-end M3 and SC Alliance models are properly playful, but for a mix of charge, whoop and holler every tester loved the MTi.

“So planted, but so responsive”, reckoned Lee. It does need energy/weight to get the spring working, so the men’s version scored higher than the Alliance women’s model in terms of feedback and sheer fun.

For chunkier chaps, the ‘M’ for ‘medium turn radius’ bit of the name worked very well – carving well inside the quoted 18m turn radius but hanging onto trench-digging high-speed arcs with utter confidence. Tech-wise the core is a maple/aspen mix, there’s a touch of nose rocker for straight-line stability, and you get an upper-end Marker MXCELL piston binding as part of the package.

There’s also Dark Matter Damping, which we translate as ‘areas of the sidewall with material to soak up chatter’.

The Disruption MTi is very fast to engage and lock into the turn with complete confidence on sketchy, rattly pistes, so the sweet area on the construction/performance/entertainment 3D Graph-of-Ski is perfectly filled.