Test After Test, Rossignol's Freeride Ski With "Point-and-Shoot" Performance Still Hits the Mark

True quiver-of-one freeride skis are hard to find, especially since their usability largely depends on where you spend most of your time skiing and what your definition of “fun” might be on skis, but Rossignol’s Sender Free 110 might be the one. Unchanged from last year, the Sender Free 110 retains its hard-charging yet approachable and friendly design.

One of the most approachable freestyle powder skis ever made, the Sender Free 110 bridges the gap between high-speed crud-busting performance, playfulness in pow, and edge grip when things get nasty. It’s remarkably easy to ski and doesn’t feel like it will overpower you, yet it doesn’t have a speed limit for when you want to get rowdy.

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2027 Rossignol Sender Free 110 Specs

• Size skied: 176cm, 184cm
• Lengths available: 168cm, 176cm, 184cm, 191cm
• Sidecut: 140mm – 110mm – 133mm (184cm)
• Radius: 20m (194cm)
• Profile: Twin rocker
• Weight: 2200g (184cm)

Shape, Flex and Construction 

Rossignol’s Sender Free 110 might look like every other fat freestyle ski out there, with a significant tip and tail rocker and a fairly symmetrical shape. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll notice some details that are the magic behind its versatility. Despite the deep rocker lines, there isn’t much tip and tail taper, giving the ski a really long effective edge once it’s up on edge, adding stability and power. Underfoot, there’s a healthy dose of camber, adding even more power and pop.

From a stiffness standpoint, the Sender Free 110 is incredibly stiff underfoot, thanks to Rossignol’s Titanal Beam metal insert, quickly giving way to quite soft tips and tails. The ski flexes very roundly, but the stiff underfoot section makes it easy to load these up and air off anything in sight. 

Despite the generous tip and tail rocker, the Sender Free 110 doesn’t ski particularly short, thanks to the reduced tip and tail taper and very long effective edge. The medium/long 20-meter turn radius allows for a variety of turn shapes when on edge.

The freestyle leanings of the Sender Free 110 really come out when you look at the mount point, which is as close to true center as just about any non-park ski on the market. The recommended -3.5cm from center mark might be a little too far forward for more traditional skiers, but freestyle-oriented testers loved it.

On-Snow Performance

There isn’t really a particular area of the mountain where the Sender shines—its versatility is astounding, and testers loved riding it in all manner of terrain, from the steep and technical big-mountain terrain off Targhee’s Peaked and Mary’s zones to groomers to slushy park laps. In many ways, it’s a point-and-shoot kind of weapon that performs similarly well, no matter if the conditions underfoot involve untracked pow or cut-up chop.

While it’s quite playful, the ski prefers big, wide-open turns and inspires confidence for fast and powerful riding in really gnarly terrain—it’s no wonder these have won Freeride World Tour titles on the feet of Marcus Goguen. What’s impressive is that it makes this kind of skiing accessible to less strong skiers who might typically shy away from straight lining a bowl. The core construction is incredibly damp and quiet and allows for pretty relaxed skiing in chopped up, tracked-out conditions, where it’s easy to just let the ski’s suspension do the work.

One tester said: “Same great ski, slightly updated top sheet for the best. About as strong underfoot as I would want for a pow ski, which allows it to truly ski it all. Having skied it right after the Bent 110, I would say this is the souped-up version.”

The hard-charging nature of the skis definitely makes it a ski that will tire you out quicker than most. Testers found that it was harder to ride in tighter terrain like moguls and steep trees unless you really drove the ski, but found that it was still quite fun to jump around on in this type of terrain.

Anecdotally, while this ski is marketed as a men’s ski and the construction of it is definitely more akin to what you’ll find in other men’s freeride skis on the market, as a 120lb, 5’5” female skier, I loved these skis. They were fun primarily because I could ski through the scariest, gnarliest sun crust with complete confidence that I wasn’t going to catch an edge or hit something that would make these skis waver. They were intuitive and fairly easy to turn, but the harder you ski them, the more they respond. All to say, hard-charging ladies, don’t shy away from this ski! 

Comparisons

When compared to the Salomon QST Blank, another popular freeride ski of a similar width, one tester found that the Sender 110 provided much more stability at speed, at the cost of the Blank’s more playful character. Specifically, his words were “the Sender is a stomp and thug it out kind of vibe.”

Other testers said similar things about the Sender 110’s stability in comparison to the Blizzard Sheeva 11, noting that the Sender 110 chattered significantly less than this option on hardpack. Overall, this ski has some considerable oomph and can out-ski softer alternatives when the going gets fast.

What Type of Skier Is the Rossignol Sender 110 Best For? 

Skiers who are looking to get into bigger terrain and stomp everything will enjoy the “stomp and thug it out-ness” of the Sender 110. However, don’t be fooled—it still takes plenty of drive to control and make it perform, so the stronger the skier, the better the ski performs. If you can ski the Sender 110, it will reward you in most conditions.