While the Rossi Squad 7 had a couple of its teeth pulled during its makeover to an Air Tip (and tail) design two years ago, it’s still a burly ski.  While it’s ski test apostasy to disregard the scorecard stats, in the Powder genre they are unreliable guides to behavior.

The scores for the Squad 7 are based on a small sample of runs taken mostly in the prevailing (i.e., hard) on-piste conditions; our realskiers’ recommendation is more a reflection of our experience of the ski in conditions it was meant for. Unquestionably enlightened by its adoption of the Soul 7 construction, the Squad 7 in its big-boy size of 190cm still requires the length of a football field to effect a succession of three turns unless you can crank it up to edge angles that most anyone is unlikely to achieve on hard snow, let alone the powder that is the Squad 7’s province.

Long way of saying, the Squad 7 likes its turns long.  You wouldn’t pick up on this behavior just by looking at the numbers, but one might say just because numbers are numbers doesn’t necessarily make them weightier than words.