The Super Joy doesn’t suffer from an identity crisis. She knows who she is, what she does best and how to make her lightweight partner happy. Her domain is groomed terrain, to the exclusion of all else. She likes to carve; drifting is for the indecisive. She is built to bend with a minimum of stress; if you work her too hard, she wonders what she did wrong. All these behavioral snapshots add up to a ski tailored to those demoiselles who hover between stem-turn insecurities and parallel expertise.

One of the underappreciated traits of the Super Joy’s featherweight construction is how close it brings the skier to the snow. Many of today’s skis are so focused on mitigating shock they forget about snow feel. The slim core profile of the Super Joy, combined with its minimal mass, allows the lighter skier who doesn’t overstress the ski to settle into the flow of a carved turn without having to work the ski.