 I'm Steve from Alice Brigham, this is Mark and we're here to just talk a little bit about the Salomon Stance 96. So this is a completely new ski from Salomon, it's a departure from maybe what you'd normally expect from them because they've made something that's a bit stiffer than you're maybe normally used to from Salomon. So just to give you the tech rundown, here is Salomon. Hi I'm Pete from Salomon and I'm up here in Glenshee in the Scottish Highlands and I'm really pleased to be able to talk to you about a new ski from Salomon. This is the Stance 96. This is a new all-mountain ski from Salomon and it's something pretty special. It's one of those skis that perhaps doesn't come along every two or three years. It's almost like a five-year, ten-year cycle of a real special ski. The reason it's so special is it can kind of handle everything, whether you're carving big GS skis on a big wide open piece and you're cranking the speed. If you need to adjust your turn radius and do shorter turns it'll lay them down and then if you want to head off if it's a powder day hit some powder, big wide ski, nice rocker in the tip so it's going to float in the powder. And for me the thing that shines through is its ability to do to do both. So you know it's great on the piece, it's great off the piece. One of the killer features is the little titanium window here, the cutout here and you'll see the same down here at the tail. There's no TI here, we've got CFX Superfiber here and what that does is it just gives the ski a little bit more tolerance and a nicer more forgiving feel. So for a double TI ski it's just not too overpowering, you can you can chuck it around. So who's it aimed at? You're going to be looking at advanced to expert, somebody looking to ski the whole mountain as we all want to do. There are other skis in the range but this is the width that a lot of people will look to the 96 and it comes as a flat deck and that's my stance 96. Right you've got the tech info, here's a little bit about how the ski feels. So we got to ski this ski a couple of times last year we were away with Salomon on a dealer trip in America and we also tried it out in Scotland. We were really lucky with the conditions in Scotland, a lot of fresh snow but it is still Scotland so there's a lot of challenging conditions as well. So Mark how did it feel? So I took it out not really knowing too much about it to start off with. Actually I was quite surprised you know as you said it's a bit of a departure from the normal kind of thing that Salomon would put out there but very quickly I realised that it was very powerful, super solid. You know it was, the conditions weren't great, I was skiing down a flat run, it was very very firm and tons of grip. You wouldn't want to ski it if you weren't the most confident for skiers because it probably would run away from you a little bit. But for high-end skiers looking for a ski at a decent price point and something that can do most things I think this is definitely worth looking at. Yeah I think when you think there's some you know they've made this to take on some of the stiffer or mountain skis. So it's twin metal, wood core, sidewall, medium long radius. Price for some of those is pretty crazy. This actually comes in quite reasonable but I think probably a big thing people are going to ask how does it feel compared to a QST? QSTs are softer, easier into the turn, a bit more forgiving through the turn whereas this you need to drive it a little bit more but if you do it feels grippy, it feels more powerful, there's definite differences. So you might look at it on paper and think well as a QST 99, there's a stance 96, are they a bit too similar, they're nothing, chalk and cheese, may as well come from different brands. So yeah, if you enjoy Salomon skis but you felt that QSTs were a touch soft, have a look at stance because yeah, you're getting a lot of ski for your money. So if you've skied it, give us your comments, let us know what you think. If you haven't skied it and you've got questions, pop them below and we'll come back to you. Otherwise thank you for watching.