 At Ellis 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 to ski skis because they've been on them. This is the Vocal Deakin 79. It's designed as a all mountain to piste ski for intermediate to advanced skiers. It's a forward core really really strong under foot. Tip and tail rocker starts here to here so it's a really long tip rocker really long tail rocker which means it's really easy to initiate the turn and release the excellent turn because the ski helps you do that but can run under foot for support and spring and energy. So some of the features of this ski it has the wide wide binding system where the binding actually mounts within the core of the ski to give you really really good connection between you your boots and the ski so you feel everything that's going on. It's got a reasonable turn radius on this model it's a 15.6 meter turn radius so it's a really good easy handling ski for medium short to medium radius turns. The person who's mainly going to be using this is mainly peace focused but there's enough width to allow a little bit of peace when the snow conditions allow it. So just as feedback on this it's in really good value for money really really energetic lively and a lot of fun to ski. So I came off the lift the first thing I wanted to do was get to know the skis a little bit better so to get nice and easy do some nice gentle turns and instantly found a really nice confident ski and then took it down some slightly steeper sections where it handled it really well. Going along again flatter sections where you can really open it up and build some speed I really liked it. I found that when I pushed it really hard it's really nice to sort of carve around and then I got into some more icer sections and normally I find icer sections a little bit hard to do personally so I found that with these they were like really nice just forgiving and just like lets you get down nicely slowly and then as I got towards the bottom you can go really really quickly and just I find them really stable. Overall I think this ski is great for anyone who enjoys going on the piste potentially towards the end of the season where you might get a little bit more mixed terrain where you get sort of ice snow slushy all in one day it handles it absolutely beautifully and recommend it to anyone really. It's an excellent ski.