 Hi, I'm Steve from Alice Brigham and this is Elsa and we're here today to talk to you about the Blizzard Black Pearl 88. So it's a ski that's been around for a few seasons now but this is a new version so it's had quite a few updates to it and really effective updates which we're going to go into how we felt that it skied and just how well it came out from our tests. But before we do that, here's Katie from Blizzard just to talk you through some of the tech info. This is the Black Pearl 88 from Blizzard. This is Blizzard's best-selling ski and it's just gotten better. This year they've developed what's called the True Blend Wood Core where we've got different densities of wood throughout the ski and what that does is give it a much smoother, more balanced flex so it can handle changing conditions with ease. It's the perfect ski for hard-packed snow into soft powder, crud down the side of the paste and we've had fantastic feedback, playful but happy to charge on harder snow. It's the perfect all-rounder. So I'm a big fan of Black Pearl 88 because over the many years we've had it in the range in its various forms, it's made a lot of skiers very happy from intermediate up to expert skiers. It's got a massive, massive appeal and I'm not sure I've ever really heard a bad word about it. Whether it's people that are skiing mainly on-piece or whether people that are skiing it off-piece quite a lot in all conditions. But this is a new version and it's been updated and we're very hopeful that the updates were going to be positive and we were more than pleasantly surprised. So we skied it up in Scotland, skied it in every condition whilst we were there. We had powder, we had junk snow, we had hard pack, we had fresh groomed so here's also with some thoughts on how it went. So I had never really got on one of these before properly and I had heard quite a lot of good things but again wasn't really sure what I was going to make of it. I just got really excited. It's the type of ski that you get on and you just kind of want to ski more of and you can literally take it anywhere and just have an absolute blast. I think my favorite bit was just mucking about in the powder but then going straight from that to absolutely blasting down the groomers really fast but then you can just sit back and relax at the same time so you can literally do anything on it. It's brilliant. But you're quite technical skier, you're quite powerful skier but you don't feel that it was too demanding either? It wasn't demanding but it wasn't kind of dull either. If you pushed it it responded but if you sat back it was happy to take you at that speed as well. For me I think that's the thing with the Black Pearl that good skiers still really enjoy it but so do progressing intermediates and I think it's got a lot to do with the way the flip core works and the way the rocker is so it's got power if you need it but it's also very forgiving and very manoeuvrable and I suppose what better place to test it than somewhere like Scotland as well. So it is a new ski, it's an updated ski. If you want more information have a look at the web pages online or call into one of the stores or give us a ring, we'll talk you through it. If you've got any questions or any comments, if you've skied it pop them below and we'll come back to you. Otherwise thanks for watching.