 I'm Steve at Ice Wiggum, this is Mark. We're here just to talk a little bit about the Lion Blade today. It's a new ski for this year, there's a few of them came out on an early release last year. We were lucky enough to get invited out on a release trip just to see what this ski was all about. But first of all let's hear from Line with some of the tech info on this ski. So here we have the brand new Lion Blade. Line worked tirelessly to create something that was hell of a lot of fun on Pist. They're normally renowned for their freestyle and free ride skis. This has got a hell of a deep side cut and works really well on that harder and firm snow. A 95mm width means that you can nip off the side of the piece and it's a big fat shovel so you can get some float. But in reality it's all about this gas pedal metal here that allows the ski to still be soft and longitudinally but give you a really tight side cut radius and lots and lots of torsional grip. You can have all the fun in the world staying in bounds digging trenches and getting your hip on the floor. It's really targeted at that advanced to expert skier that wants to go and have a load of fun in bounds on the terrain when you know the powder is not very good and our test of feedback has been outstanding. It's just a hell of a lot of fun. You can get a really good variety of turn shapes and really enjoy yourself throughout any day on the hill. Right now the good bit. So this is going to talk about what we felt when we skied it and this ski is easy to talk about because it's a bit different. It's just a bit more fun and this is one of the great things about line. They kind of strip away what skis are the categories and the tight rules for it and they just make what they want to make and this is the result and yeah so Mark what did you think? I was a little bit cautious if I'm honest to start off with. I kind of didn't really know what to expect. I thought line maybe trying to push a piece ski it almost didn't make sense in my head but then actually once I got on it you know it suited me down to the ground. It's 95 underneath the waist so that's kind of the sweet spot around there at the moment for all mountain really. You know it's wide enough to go and mess around in most conditions and on pieces you know it feels fine. It's agile, it's nimble. You've got a gas pedal metal, gas pedal metal laminate in it which just helps beef it up so if you do want to put your foot down and kind of go for it there's plenty of performance in there. So I personally really enjoyed it. Yeah no I think I'm in the same boat there. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first got on it. I was kind of thinking I'd probably prefer a piece ski but actually I just love what this ski does for you. You can be like a just be a hooligan on the mountain ski it carve it slash it whatever it doesn't really matter just ski as fast as you want you know and after ski it fast it wants to turn it feels really playful it feels really poppy but it grips as well but it's not actually stiff as you might think it would be that's what surprised me. You can really get that ski flexing but yeah I think the key thing here is going to have fun on it just enjoy it. If you want to ski to ski mainly piece with a little bit of all mountain as well and you just want to I don't know have a laugh get off your twin tips or maybe you never ski twin tips but yeah you're going to enjoy this ski definitely. So if you've skied it you've got some comments put them down below or if you've got any questions let us know and we'll come back to you. Thanks for listening.