 At Alice Brigham we take ski testing really seriously and this involves two different ski tests. The first one is done early in the season. Everything's put through its paces and compared we make the decisions what we're going to stock. Later on in the season we bring staff out to Austria. Here the staff test all the skis that we've decided to go in the range. This means we can make sure we've made all the correct decisions but it also means that when you come into any of our stores the staff there can give you personal advice. They know exactly how the ski skis because they've been on them. Hi my name is Kevin I'm from Milan UK and I'm here to tell you about the Ripstick 96. The Ripstick is our free ride series of skis and they all benefit from the same technology. The technology in these skis is called Amphibio. Amphibio is all about the profile of the ski. These skis come as a left and right so they're not symmetrical skis and what you get is a full length camber on the inside edge of the ski and a nice rocker on the outside of the tip and the tail. What that gives you is really great edge grip in the turn but really forgiving ski and easy turn initiation. All the Ripstick skis have that technology in them and they're all built on the same kind of construction. You have a lightweight wood core in here with two carbon rods that run the full length of the ski near the edge. It gives you a really lively ski but also a light ski and lots of people who've been testing this week have been surprised to find that there are no metal in these skis. They ski really well and really strongly at high speed as if they do have a sheet of metal but carbon tubes just give them all the rebound that you need. As I said it's light and another benefit of that is that you could use them as a free ride touring ski. There's a notch in the tail down here for your skin if you wanted to go that way and with a hybrid binding or even a pin touring binding you got yourself a nice lightweight setup. This pair in a 181 are around 1600 grams so that really is at the lightweight end of the free ride spectrum. Once again it's the Ripstick from Ulan and this is the 96 width out of the four that are available. Great all-round ski won many awards and possibly one of the best one ski quivers you could find. Hi I'm Elliot from Milton Keynes store. I just went out in the Ulan Ripstick 96. Went off piece on it this morning so it's super blue skies nice and sunny. I just found that it floated perfectly even though it is still a relatively narrow ski for what's out there. Nice and maneuverable but gives you tons of flow just feels great to glide around on. Then later on when you do take it on piece we're definitely nice and maneuverable as well. Just grips every single edge that you need it to and gets you down the mountain with a big smile on the face basically. There's not many skis where you just ski it two runs and then fall in love with it straight away. I think it's just because it's so light so maneuverable it's just yeah all mountain ski that runs everywhere really.