 The Absolute Joy is one of our heads bestsellers and skiing it, it's easy to see why. The perfect blend of performance and lightness means that this is great for anybody who wants to ski that's easy to kind of move around, easy to handle. And thanks to its 79mm waist it'll just dip off to the side if you want it to as well. It has a surprisingly big performance bracket which means intermediates to lighter weight advanced skiers are going to love it. A graphene laminate helps to keep the weight down in key areas to the ski without compromising on performance so it has decent levels of grip on firm snow. But it doesn't have the unpredictable handling that you get with some lighter weight skis. Head use their evolutionary rocker architecture 3.0 which focuses on three key areas of design so that's rocker, rebound and radius. When these three are brought together in a way that ahead of done in this model it makes turning easy, it makes skiing fun and it maximises all day ski ability. All the testers were talking about how forgiving, simple and easy to use it was but actually how capable it was all over the hill as well. Which ultimately leads to one thing which is fun, which is why we've given it our All Terrain Carve Ski Award.