There are two distinct phases in every expert skier’s life: before skiing a Stöckli and after. Once you pass into phase two, you’re changed for life. You’ve had a taste of absolute power and there’s no forgetting it. Note we said expert skier. It’s not just that...
Stöckli’s main focus was, is and shall remain performance on hard snow, so even the relatively soft Motion with its lighter core and rockered baseline – all against-the-grain concessions for the race-obsessed Swiss – holds with such precision that it earned...
Like prescription medicines, Stöcklis should come with a warning label, something along the lines of, “Requires skill, effort and commitment.” In lieu of this development, their price tag will have to serve as sufficient deterrent to prevent posers from accidentally...
It’s natural to compare the new to what we know, so we view the new Scale models through the prism of the Laser AX, a speed-eating, terrain-crushing machine with little patience for mincing steps. Against this backdrop, the Scale Delta looks as fierce as a flower...
The Scale Beta isn’t very different from the Laser AX in terms of shape or sidecut radius, but it’s a mellower ski by many orders of magnitude. It’s as though the Laser AX were made for military use and the Scale Beta serves the same purpose for civilians. The Beta...
