There’s no more conclusive evidence of the sorry state of Technical skis in the U.S. market than our experience with Rossi’s new React series (for men) and Nova for women last spring. Not counting my own input, I received exactly one test card from an armada of testers.  That’s the sound of one hand clapping, a tepid reception that’s all the more remarkable because Rossi really had no other new models to overshadow this collection of short-turn, hard-snow specialists. Bear in mind that most of the Realskiers test panel are shop personnel who naturally gravitate to where their bread is buttered, which evidently isn’t by the Technical category.