The path of true love is unpredictable.  Who would have imagined a hard-charging, fall-line facing, long-turn habitué falling for a super-shaped little package like the Head i.Supershape Speed? (Do NOT mistake her for the Rebels i.Speed, an entirely different species. We now return to our budding romance.)

This ski has “short turns only need apply” practically tattooed on its forebody, yet as I take her out on the dance floor and show her my go-to turns, she’s right with me. So to test the relationship I take her into gnarly, snowboard-chewed bumps and what does she do? Darts between them like she was a pair of ballet pumps, laughing at the ease with which she achieves the improbable.

I’m smitten, so when she asks if she can now (finally!) do her thing, I lead her to the steepest groomed pitch we know (we’ll call it ours from hereon after) where she proceeds to string short turns like pearls on an unbroken string.  If I haven’t tumbled all the way it’s because she can be demanding, doesn’t like to be pushed sideways and won’t go where she’ll be in over her head in powder.  But otherwise, she is both beautiful and fun to be with.