 This is a product overview for the Volkl Flair 78. It's a great all-rounder for advanced skiers looking for something with plenty of agility, but also wants something smooth and forgiving underfoot too. It uses Marker's 4-Motion XL binding that has four separate rail mounting points that allows the ski to flex naturally and gives it that nice smooth arc throughout the turn. It uses a dual wood core light construction that has a mix of PU and two lightweight wood stringers that means that it's nice and manoeuvrable, easy to kind of move around on your foot, but actually that power just gives it that little bit of boost to give power down to the edges, which is increased even further by putting a steel laminate on top of there too, just to provide it with a slightly damper, more smooth skiing experience. It has a mix of sidewall underfoot and tip and tail rocker, which means it gives you plenty of grip underfoot on firm snow conditions, but the tip and tail rocker just help to iron out any of those lumps and bumps and just give it a much more forgiving, easier to use ride. Tester's picked up on the fact that it had a fair amount of torsional stiffness, so it had that edge grip. It was responsive, both on and kind of off-piste, but it really excelled on the hard pack, which is why we've given it a runner-up award for all terrain car for women.