Last year we placed the Total Joy among our Power Picks and it still has the chops to hang with that crowd, but more impressive than its puissance is its pussycat ease.

The Total Joy is assembled from the lightest materials in the ski-maker’s tool chest, carbon fiber and Koroyd honeycomb, and adds the ultimate in the strength-to-weight contest, Graphene™, carbon one-atom thick and absurdly stronger than steel.  Put it all together in a deep-dish sidecut and you have a kick-ass carving machine that weighs next to nothing. Liz Taylor owned necklaces that weighed more a pair of Total Joys.

We could have plucked superlatives from dozens of test cards like Natalie’s from Powder House, who raved, “Fun, quick, solid, maneuverable, excellent!”  Or Kayla from across the country at Aspen Ski and Board, who came away “super impressed!  Great edge hold, very stable… way more than I expected from this light a ski.  Fun in trees, fun all around!  Very versatile,” she added for emphasis.