 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. Okay so this is a ski actually I really love this and you can see from the looking at it it's got a great shape it's nice and wide in the shovel really helps to float in the powder and I guess the the clues in the name really so it's 99 underfoot so it's nice and wide super floaty in the powder. You can see we're here in Pila today and it's pretty hot so no one's trying them out but I tried this out in Skor in the States and absolutely blew my mind in the needy powder out there in Skor. Level wise they probably do need to be that sort of advanced to expert level looking for a true sort of free ride ski really Mark. Here we go where do we begin it's like your favorite pizza there's everything in it so we've got a full wood core new lightweight poplar core this year we've got some sexy stuff going on in the tip here we've got CFX superfiber which is really good at absorbing shocks and vibrations so I need as much help as I can get when I'm hooning down the piste little cork inserts so cork is incredibly good at absorbing shocks and vibrations and because it's no longer used in bottle in wine there's a surplus of it so we're chucking it in our skis for extra dampening. So the feedback we've been getting from testers listen I'm clearly gonna gonna gonna say the good news but the good news is it just keeps coming at me we tested this as I said earlier in Skor valley this is an upgraded ski from the previous years and the feedback was that we've upped the performance of the ski definitely feel the better absorption of shocks through the tip people are liking the new wood core they're feeling and it's giving it real rebound and spring and you know it's people are coming back with big smiles on their faces saying it works not only here's a thing for you not only in powder where it should work if you need to get around on the piste it's totally at home on the piste as well so don't just pigeonhole it as a free rider but know that it will do what it needs to do when you really want it to work. Hey I'm Simon from the Four Williams store I've been up and joined the QST 99 this morning on the fresh snow that we had overnight as soon as I got this into the fresh snow it felt awesome it feels like a powder ski but without sacrificing your carving you kind of still have a great edge hold you know you still feel like you can kind of keep up on the piste with it with all your mates but then actually go off the side really enjoy the powder and just have a great time in comparison to the previous generation in QST 99 that one skied great off piste but I don't think it had as much on piste this going off piste still feels amazing but actually on piste it just feels so much better than it used to this is kind of going towards that one ski quiver for somebody who is going to explore and want to do a lot of stuff you could put a touring binding on it you could just ski it all year and carve and you know go off piste and have a great time but you could go further into that country and just really enjoy it I'd sell this ski to someone who is really primarily focus on focusing on their off piste but actually still wants to kind of stay with family or friends or that when they are on piste and not feel like they're kind of flapping around