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Blade - Review 2025

By: Hunter Bierce & Bradley Axmith - Updated: April 2025

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Our review team:

Hunter Bierce

Editor at SlopeMagazine.com

Hunter is a PSIA ski instructor based in the Northern Cascades.

Bradley Axmith

Editor at SlopeMagazine.com

Grew up shredding Canadian snowpacks and sold gear to pay for it.

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Where to buy Blade:

Backcountry.com - Men's

Evo - Men's

Amazon - Women's

Backcountry - Women's

Evo - Women's

The Blade takes Line’s incredibly playful and liberated style of skiing and translates it for those who want to keep their skis on the ground. Imagine the punk rock attitude of their park series translated as a carver that flips from edge to edge like a coin.

Similar to their Sakana and Pescado swallowtails, the Blade is built to turn. But it’s more capable of doing so through sloppy snow and hardpack.

Their frontside destroyer status is achieved through an undeniably alien shape. Bulging out from a serviceable 95mm waist all the way to a bulbous 154 mm tip, they look more like a canoe oar than a ski.

Combined with conservative rocker and minimal tail taper, the Blade true to fashion has a whole lot of edge to it and is built more for firm snow than the Sakana or Pescado also listed.

Notable Features

Directional Flex: Soft tips and a stiff tail allow for easier turn initiation and more edge bite through the length of a turn

5-Cut: Multiple-radius sidecut allows skiers to more easily make a variety of different turn shapes.

Gas Pedal Metal: Titanal laminate running along the edges of the ski aid in lateral stability while keeping fore/aft flexibility- further accentuated by individual pieces of metal in the tips and tails.