As Americans have gravitated to fatter and fatter skis, we’ve lost the art of making short, snappy turns.  Even the skiers who ski well technically don’t make many short turns, in part because wide skis make moving quickly edge to edge either a chore or impossible.

If only we could get everyone to saddle up the Blizzard RC Ti we’d see more short-radius tracks on early-morning groomers.  Some slalom skis make short turns feel like work, but the RC Ti is all about play.  “A really exciting ski that returns a lot of power when you push it… very snappy,” assessed Lou from The Sport Loft.

Zip off the edge is another trait that fatter skis eschew, letting the shape of the tail do the work of turn completion.  The RC Ti won’t tolerate such a lazy attitude, preferring to pop out of the turn so you enter the next one early and on a committed edge.

Despite harboring this storehouse of energy, the RC Ti earned close to our highest marks for slow-speed turns.  The reason it works so well in the lower speed range is that you don’t have to drop your hips to the snow to make it whip around; it responds promptly even if it isn’t raked up to 60°, earning our second-highest aggregate grade for Finesse properties.