 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 the ski skis because they've been on them. So on this ski it's a directional twin tip so we've got camber on the foot and we've got rocker in the tip and tail. So it's our Marders freestyle rocker which basically means that for this shape of ski you're going to get a lot of drive on piece but equally in the park it's not going to hook up too much and it's going to be super super stable all over the mountain. It's got metal sheets with the ski so this is the metal laminate version of our popular ARV 96. It's ready for the parks here that wants a little bit more power and somebody who wants to go on the bigger kickers who wants to charge a bit harder on the piece and yeah all-round just have a bit more stability. People have been saying how well it holds an edge through the long carving turns but equally how fun and loose it is down the bottom when it gets a bit slushier. In terms of the park skiers that have come along and tried this ski they've said how stable it is on take-off and on landings and overall they've just said how much more dependable it feels than some of the skis that are a bit softer. Obviously you have to push it a little bit harder but you definitely reap the rewards. I'm Andrea I work in the coming garden shop I've just been skiing on the Armada ARV 96 Ti so the conditions here are a little bit mixed there's a bit of ice there's a lot of soft snow and we didn't have really much time to do our run because the slope was closing in 10 minutes so we decided to go pretty fast and pretty aggressive and with this ski it's been just amazing it's really solid the titanal inside makes the difference it makes you feel like in a in a much deeper ski so you can really hammer down the piece and have plenty of fun. I've been taking the ski everywhere jumping around soft snow a bit of our piece as well and it really coped well it was really stable on the foot I never felt I wanted anything different it has been just a very very good run very very funny. I think this ski will be suitable for a good skier, higher intermediate, maybe with a bit of a park background that wants to leave a little bit the park behind and have a ski a little bit more aggressive and a little bit more performing when when skiing on and off piece.