Ogasaka KS-UP Skis with PRD12GW Binding 2027

The OGASAKA KS-UP is a technical all-round piste ski, 69 mm underfoot — the widest waist in the KEO'S TECHNICAL line. "UP" stands for Universal Pro. OGASAKA builds it four ways: flat, on the FM585 plate, on the new SRED plate, or with a Tyrolia PRD12GW binding on the M-FLEX PRO BASE. PTO ordered that last one only — $1,510, binding included.

Its radius climbs from 12.1 m at the 155 to 14.7 m at the 170 — roughly a meter longer at every size than the KS-AP2 alongside it. The build is a sandwich: sheets of special F.R.P and A7178 aluminum alloy, laminated onto the top and bottom of an NF wood core. The metal is a laminate in the stack, not OGASAKA's Power Platform Function; that mark is absent from this ski's structure row, and the stiff-underfoot behavior it denotes is not claimed here. OGASAKA publishes where the sheet sits and nothing about how far it runs. For profile it publishes one mark: Front Float System, a front rocker shape. No camber profile, no flex index. Weight is 1,012 g/m, grams per meter of a single ski.

OGASAKA aims the ski at prize tests; three of the Japanese on-snow reports land on that same exam use case. A national demonstrator called its edge grip strong on hard pack. In moguls, the two demonstrators a Japanese magazine named each rated it highly — its words, not ours. Wrong ski for short-turn specialists: the KS-AP2 is drawn tighter at the same $1,250 bare-ski price, and the metal-free KS-CX and KS-CV tighter again. Wrong ski, too, for competition-level long turns, and at 69 mm for powder. Two of the four score-cards written on the exact build PTO stocks put its grip below the plate versions'. PTO stocks no plate build.

OGASAKA catalogs it in 155, 160, 165 and 170 cm, and length here is a turn-shape decision. The review below covers how it skis and how it compares. The binding ships on the ski; we set it up to your boots and help you settle on a length.

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