Ogasaka U-PH Skis with FDT TP 10 Binding 2027

The OGASAKA U-PH is an all-mountain ski, 81 mm underfoot, and it is what the UNITY flagship becomes once the metal comes out. Three skis in the line share a body — 119.0-81.0-109.0 mm, sandwich construction, the same ultra-lightweight NF wood core. This one is built in Japan, and its materials field reads special F.R.P — no A7178, no metal. The U-PE adds an A7178 aluminum sheet. The U-PH does not, and OGASAKA built the ski around that subtraction.

Subtracting a layer shows up in print first as weight: 819 g/m for this ski, 958 for the U-PE, 813 for the U-PC — per meter, per single ski. The shape does not move. Tip rocker runs into camber underfoot with Front Lead Function, the sidecut is a Multi Arc Jointed Curve, and there are four lengths, 146 cm through 167.

OGASAKA built this one for the smoothest ride it could manage — its stated aim is a ski that will not wear you out over a long day — and its catalog promises strong carving on the groomed. The testers on record do not all read it that way. Their three grip marks came in at 3, 3.5 and 4, and the one at the bottom said plainly that razor-sharp edge hold is not this ski's business. Both statements stand, and the review keeps them side by side rather than picking the flattering one.

So this is the wrong ski if you want bite under load: that is the U-PE, the one holding the metal. At 81 mm it will not float deep powder, and it is not drawn for hard-snow racing. Its lengths end at 167 cm. It is not even the easiest UNITY, because OGASAKA positions the U-PC below it for exactly that.

PTO stocks it complete in white: the Marker FDT TP 10 with its FDT High Performance Plate arrives already fitted, at $1,085, where the U-PE lists at $1,170 as a bare ski. The review below covers how it skis and how to choose a length.

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