Great One SW :
The Head Great One
ski is a completely new women's ski for a perfect on-slope to
off-piste ratio.
Inspired by the male
Monster, a bit narrower than the Wild One, with sweet, integrated
tip and tail protection.
Wreak havoc on your senses this season,
no matter where you ski on the mountain.
Head's Great ONE ski is
the female-friendly version of their bestselling men's Monster all
terrain skis, but the Great ONE has a lighter design with a better
balance point for women who love black-diamond runs and other
expert's-only challenges.
The Great ONE features a
snappy sandwich construction with Adaptive Intelligence Technology.
That means that Head put
these things called Intellifibers at 45-degree angles in front of
the ski bindings, so those mechanical impulses created by bouncing
around in hard snow turn into electrical energy that stiffens the
Intellifibers.
When the Intellifibers
turn rigid, you feel more control with improved rebound and ski
torsional stiffness.
The cool thing is that
Intellifibers only stiffen the Great ONE exactly where you need the
extra control on the mountain--and not all the way from the summit
to the lodge.
Another Head innovation
is Liquidmetal technology. While just about every ski manufacturer
now offers titanium in their high-end skis, Head's Liquidmetal has a
molecular structure that returns power at a ratio of 1:1, resulting
in an improved ski rebound and improved turn initiation with roughly
29% more power than energy-absorbing titanium.
Review:
Ski magazines lauded
Head's Liquidmetal component in past seasons for the consistent and
predictable rebound, but one lesser-known benefit is that the
Liquidmetal is actually liquid, so it doesn't break down like solid
molecular ski components that wear out over several seasons of hard
use.
What that means is that
you'll probably be skiing on these Great ONEs long after everyone
else has decided that their conventional all-mountain skis are flat
and well not so great.
That's an investment
that makes plenty of sense no matter where you like to ski down the
mountain.
