Bearing in mind who it’s for, the Pure Joy delivers on its name. The Pure Joy is a real test of Graphene’s™ capabilities, as the space-age material gets little structural help from an injected foam core. This makes the Pure feel like feathers on one’s feet, a...
Every time a ski R&D department tumbles unto a new aerospace fiber, the engineers can’t wait to see what it can do. They put it near the base; they try it by the sidewalls, they drape it over the topskin. They use it in place of titanal; they substitute it for a...
It’s safe to say no other ski has ever achieved the combination of strength and light weight embodied in the Head Super Joy. Of course, no other women’s skis but Head’s Joy series have the benefit of using Graphene™, the one-atom thick matrix of carbon that is still...
All of Head’s new Monster models are allegedly built with the same construction and materials (they share a mutual price tag of $800 MSRP), but they don’t ski that way. The narrowest of the lot, the Monster 83, gets lost in fat ski limbo: it’s built on an off-trail...
Head has always offered an exceptional cost/value ski in their line, and this year it’s the Strong Instinct Ti Pro. At $599 including binding, the Strong Instinct is ideal for the skier who hasn’t renewed their gear in ages and has limited resources to expend on new...
