As we noted in our review of the Unique 10 last year, Rossignol has a long history of making skis perfectly tuned to the elite female skier.  The Unique 10 isn’t a frilly paint job on a man’s carving ski.  It was built from scratch to make cuts in the snow as sharp as a jeweler’s.

Its super-deep sidecut and traditional camber line conspire to keep the Unique 10 in contact with a continuous edge.  “Held really well on hard snow,” affirmed Shirley from Footloose. “Quick turning with a kick at the end of the turn.  Stable at speed. Excellent ski.”

To read Shirley’s comments you’d suspect the Unique 10 might be a bit burly, but you’d be wrong.  It drives like a sports car, not a sedan. The Unique 10’s Air Core removes a section of Paulownia to save 20% on weight and linen is used for damping instead of Rossi’s rubber-and-metal VAS.

Our testers were unanimous in describing the Unique 10 as a responsive, powerful carver with quick reflexes. As is de rigeur in the women’s Technical genre, the Unique 10 comes with its own Rossi bindings.