The Stöckli Laser SL doesn’t suffer from an identity crisis. It was born a slalom, it lives to make slalom turns and because it’s a Stöckli, it will probably never die. A test card from South Lake Tahoe’s Powder House paints a telling portrait of the Laser SL’s...
If all you did was look at its V-shaped baseline, you’d swear the Völkl Shiro was a swiveling disco stick. The front rocker looks like it’s not going to end until it’s somewhere underfoot, where it runs into the pronounced rear rocker, which is slightly flattened...
Comparing the new Two to the One is a simple matter of addition: add 8mm of width to every dimension of the One and you’ve got the Two. More surface area means more flotation and a super-easy-to-smear mentality. A ski this wide, with this big a turn radius, isn’t...
Völkl seems determined to eradicate any remnants of their erstwhile reputation for making über-precise, unforgiving skis. The One, Two and Three (does anyone spend less time in model-naming meetings than Völkl?) are all calibrated to smear, slide and slither. The...
The 100EIGHT has a split personality. It’s a carving ski in a fat ski’s body, a soft-snow ski that wants you to ride the edge. In realskiers’ parlance, it leans to the Finesse side of the Finesse/Power divide, with off-piste skiing and drifting to the edge its...
