 I'm Steve at Alice Brigham, this is Mark, and we are here to talk about the Black Crow's Captice. So first thing we're going to hear from Black Crow's about some of the tech details. So we have the captice. The captice is a ski which is 90 underfoot. It's the narrower ski in the all-mountain category but essentially it's designed to be skied. So somebody who is based in resort wants to use all just to ski and have fun and play on. In terms of the ski itself it has a traditional camber underfoot. It has a tip and tail rocker and I guess you could class it as an all-mountain twin tip. It's not a true twin so the rocker profile and the camber and the mountain point are set slightly back so it just gives you a little bit more versatility to ski around the mountain but it's roots are very much and DNA are very much within the freestyle style of ski. Great for somebody who just wants, as I said, that resort base ski just wants to have fun. It's a moderate flex to the ski as well so it turns nicely and carves really really well. For somebody who just wants that nice entry ski on a slightly wider platform, a little bit of a freestyle feel to it. Perfect ski. So how did it feel? Well the first thing you want to know about Black Crow's is that they're not one of the big boys, they're not one of the major brands but they're vast approaching that. They're probably the hot brand right now and they just seem to be getting everything right with their skis. They tend to make skis on a slightly stiffer side but maybe the cactus doesn't quite fall into that because there's no metal here. This is a wood fiberglass sidewall so it's quite a traditional construction but it's got a nice shape to it and it's got a really good build so what we're getting is a ski that's an all mounted ski. Take it anywhere but for a ski with no metal it's on the stiffer side of the wood skis. Puts it into a really nice category so it keeps it playful and keeps it really versatile so if you're skiing it on groomed snow it's just nice and cruisey, you can get it turning, it feels quite poppy through the turns, get it into trickier snow and the fact that there's no metal in there just keeps it a little bit more forgiving so unless you're a real hard charger there's a lot you can get out of this ski and I think it's a ski that's probably suited to a lot of British skiers. Mark what did you think when you were skiing it? I can't really comment on how it skied on like pieced or really firm conditions but I did take it into some soft conditions it was a bit chopped up super playful really fun nice and agile too I think just having or not having the metal in it allows it just to to be a little bit more maneuverable a little bit less weight you know that a slightly softer flex so if you are kind of finding yourself in a slightly trickier spot it's super easy to jump turn round but it's happy in soft conditions really fun floaty surfy I mean you might look at it and think it's a twin tip but for me this is this is all mountain for sure yeah definitely I mean if I didn't know where I was going didn't know what the conditions were and I wanted to ski a bit of everything then this is probably one of the skis on my very short list for what I would take because it'll do everything for me and I'll be happy so if you've skied it and you've got some comments write them below please we'd love to hear from you if you've got any questions please ask and we will come back to you otherwise thank you for listening