The path of true love is unpredictable. Who would have imagined a hard-charging, fall-line facing, long-turn habitué falling for a super-shaped little package like the Head i.Supershape Speed? (Do NOT mistake her for the Rebels i.Speed, an entirely different species....
Head makes four extraordinary Technical skis, all loaded with the same piezo-electric powered construction that Head calls KERS and you’ll call kick-ass. It uses the energy you create when you load the ski to stiffen the tail proportionately, so the more power you...
Perhaps all you need to know about the Rebels i.Speed is that, had the FIS not begun tinkering with dimensional requirements for GS skis in 2006, this would have been Bode Miller’s or Ted Ligety’s or Hermann Maier’s ski. Its appearance here at the bottom of our pile...
One of the best reasons for becoming a really accomplished skier is you get to enjoy skiing a stick like the Head Worldcup Rebels i.SL. Just point and go. Our intrepid XXL tester felt he could maneuver with the same sinuous flow one feels on in-line skates, “even at...
If you follow the fortunes of Head-sponsored athletes on the World Cup circuit, you know that they own a lease on the podium in every event but slalom. Curiously, our testers, who of course aren’t wearing WC start bibs on the weekends and who struggle to bend the...
