2025 Volkl Secret 96
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Ski Stats

Sidecut 139/96/121
Radius 24m/38m/15.2m/20m @ 170cm
Lengths 149,156,163,170,177
Weight 1835g @ 163cm
MSRP $849.99
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Völkl has built an enviable reputation for its high-performance women’s skis, despite the fact that many of its most revered models - the Aura, Kiku and Kenja, for example - weren’t really women-specific models, but unisex skis in short sizes. The Secret 96 falls squarely in this tradition, for it faithfully mimics the construction of the new men’s M7 Mantra. What makes the M7/Secret 96 design so remarkable is how its various features work together to create a ginormous performance envelope. One of its foundational elements is Tailored Titanal Frame, that breaks the usual topsheet of Titanal into three separate parts: two long-armed horseshoes wrap around the tip and tail, and a thinner, disconnected plate rides in the center. Just below this Titanal triad is a long slab of fiberglass, a coiled spring just waiting to be energized by compression. The fusion of the metal and fiberglass elements is what gives the Secret 96 its peppy rebound, a trait not often found in wide, all-terrain skis. In the same iconoclastic vein, the two new features that elevate the performance ceiling of the 2025 Secret 96 - 4 Radius Drive and Tailored Carbon Tips - focus on sharpening the short-radius aptitude of the very tip of the ski, where every other ski that calls itself “all-mountain” is rockered entirely out of contact. The new features are meant to enhance the Secret’s ability to cut a clean, sharp corner into a short-radius arc, a level of steering accuracy that no other ski in the genre can match.
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