Head’s R&D department owns the rights to use Graphene™, the lightest and strongest material known to man, in skis.  At one atom thick, Graphene won’t lose any “who’s got the lightest stuff?” contest any time soon. With 300 times the strength of steel, wherever Graphene goes, lots of other stuff comes out and the ski is stronger for it.

When selectively deployed along the ski’s length, it affects weight distribution, so on a fat mama like the Big Joy it’s used away from the center, towards the tip and tail.  This makes a ski that’s easier to pivot side to side in the soft stuff, but still strong enough to resist the buffeting the comes with skiing crud.

The Big Joy is a quiet-riding wood core ski that thanks to Graphene feels like it’s made from pixie dust.  Its light-as-lint weight is complemented by a svelte 14.8m radius sidecut centered by a plump 110mm waist, a combination that creates a ski built for short turns whether you slice ‘em or smear ‘em.