Armada Launches New Antimatter Freeride Ski Line Alongside Max Palm

Armada is launching a new line of freeride skis, the Antimatter Series, designed alongside athlete Max Palm. Development of Antimatter involved collaboration with the athletes who inspire Armada’s vision of freeride, one that combines refined technical skills with an aesthetic, creative approach. The full line of Antimatter skis, men’s and women’s models, range from a 75mm waist to a 114mm waist. The line will be available to buy online and in-store Fall 2026. Find out more here: https://www.armadaskis.com/en-us/antimatter-early-release

THE SERIES:

The Antimatter Series is a collection of skis that blend playful, freestyle-inspired camber profiles with subtly directional shaping, utilizing constructions with tailored, hybrid metal. Essentially, Antimatter skis can pin it at top speeds in demanding terrain, while maintaining an intuitive character that can slash, pop and make a variety of turn shapes.

THE 114:

The flagship of the line, the Antimatter 114, is Max Palm’s signature ski. Palm is a Freeride World Tour event winner, Natural Selection competitor, and one of the freeride world’s emerging talents. Palm grew up splitting time between Sweden and France, developing an alpine background that pushes skis to the limit. He’s also honed a unique style infused with groundbreaking freestyle elements. A ski for Max must excel across these extremes, and the 114 was designed to do exactly that.

“From big, serious lines to playful, surf inspired moments, the Antimatter 114 blossoms with the way I choose to ski. A tool that feels composed when things get heavy and playful when they open up,” Max Palm.

“Developing the Antimatter 114 with Max Palm came naturally. Max brought a clear vision for freeride, and at Armada all we had to do was put the right pieces of the puzzle together,” Garrett Whitmer, Engineer/PLM.

THE 100:

The design ethos that emerged from development of the 114 is infused throughout the rest of the Antimatter line, tailored to different chassis widths and tuned to different terrain and conditions. The Antimatter 100 scales the concept into true all-mountain freeride package. Feedback from Todd Ligare and Anne Hjorleifson(née Wangler) — two skiers with phenomenal technical alpine skiing backgrounds — was instrumental in building a ski to rally firmer snow in a wide variety of terrain while maintaining a lively nature to adjust arc and pop. The 100 comes in both men’s and women’s-specific top sheets.

For FW27, design elements from the 114 and 100 will be reflected through the entire line with new 107mm and 93mm waisted skis.

THE TECH:

All Antimatter models utilize tailored, tapered metal layers called Speedmetal that add stability and damping without sapping the snappy energy return and maneuverability that makes them fun to ski. Tip and tail profiles are optimized for deep and variable snow performance without sacrificing more playful versatility. The multiradial tip shape has a low enough splay to maintain running length and stability in varied conditions with enough lift for deeper pow. The larger, straighter tail radius helps drop the tail into the snow for high-speed tracking while maintaining enough tail height to release, slash, and trick all over the mountain.