Best Pure Park Skis

Faction Prodigy 1 - Review 2025

By: Derek Doyle & Annie Gunton - Updated: April 2025

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Derek Doyle

Contributor at SlopeMagazine.com

Hailing from Aspen, Colorado, Derek began his skiing career in the illustrious Powder Pandas ski school program, eventually sort of growing up to ski professionally in slopestyle and big air, while moonlighting as a ski tuner and writer.

Now living in Colorado’s front range, Derek can be found among the i70 crowd racing to find hidden powder stashes on the back bowls of Vail, on Park Lane in Breckenridge, under the lights on Keystone, and returning home to the High Alpine steeps in Snowmass. When he's not skiing he’s wishing he was, or nerding out on mountain biking, climbing, and golf.

Annie Gunton

Editor at SlopeMagazine.com

Annie has lived on 4 continents and traveled through 6. Spending her time in places as different as London and the Kalahari she has adapted how she gets out and enjoys what’s around.

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Gather round freestyle hucksters and check out Faction’s Prodigy 1, a pure freestyle park ski that’s designed and fine-tuned specifically for the burliest lines through the park.

With some manufacturers moving away from a specific park and pipe skis, opting more towards an all-mountain ski with freestyle tendencies, Faction has bucked this trend with the Prodigy 1.

With a ton of camber, a rubber layer underfoot, only a small amount of rocker shape, and a skinny 88mm waist, this ski is a freestylers dream. The Prodigy 1 is also a forgiving flex rating at about 6 out of 10. With all that camber and beefed-up edges throughout Faction’s Prodigy line, carving, making quick turns, and wiggling through the bumps is second nature and practically mute out chatter at high speeds.

In the air is where the Prodigy 1 really excels. The poplar wood core has a poppy, light feel and provides stable landings on the big jumps. Plus, they come equipped with anti-chip microcaps at the tip and tail to prevent delamination. They are, however pretty geared towards on-piste, so don’t expect them to venture out of the park and keep up with some of their all-mountain/freeride cousins.