2027 Stockli Montero AR Pro - 2027 SkiEssentials Ski Test - Behind The Scenes

Hey skiers, it's Bob with Ski Essentials. Jeff. We got our ski test 2027 10th annual ski test extravaganza behind the scenes continuing. Jeff, you got some shiny skis on there. What do you got? I'm going to show you. This is a Stokely Montero AR Pro. This ski is very professional. The gentleman we rode up on the lift with with last year's AR was confused by the pro moniker wondering if he would be able to buy them as a regular citizen. We should have said no. We told them that yes they will sell you they will sell you the skis. Yeah so basically like it's very very similar of like Laser WRT to Laser WRT Pro. We were just kind of going through the differences between not 2027 AR because that changes slightly but the 2526 AR. This basically adds the metal top sheet and then we've got I assume phenol sidewalls. You know they just call them their racing black sidewalls. They're just denser. They're denser and then like a race base. Yeah aside from that same ski. Yeah same mold as a regular Montero AR. This is not the first time that we skied them but we haven't skied them a lot. What do you think? First impressions? Well my first impressions were at Pico and those continued on to today which is it's a beefier skier ski than the Montero AR and I know that there's people out there that are going to want more than an AR and like this is it. You know like I don't find I don't I personally don't find much of a need for more ski than I don't think I weigh enough and or have enough ski racing in my DNA to really like harness this thing but you can feel it like there's no limit to its performance. It does. Nope. Yeah it does like do you feel like it feels better at speed like it doesn't feel bad at slower speeds but we talked about that with Stokely a lot of how their skis like Montero AX and AR like doesn't matter if you're going 15 miles an hour or 75 miles an hour yeah it feels great I do feel like this which makes sense given the differences but it does feel like it kind of asks for a little bit of speed. Right you're still getting the 75 or whatever top end you want to put to it yeah but I think the bottom climbs a little bit and yeah it definitely is a more high octane model like it wants more gas totally right yeah I was trying to give it gas and I think perhaps the pair that I have now switched off yeah it has a slight different tune because when I was trying to give it full gas I also fell really spectacularly twice I mean you had two you had two the first one wasn't so spectacular the second one was pretty spectacular it slid for a while it did like a polish donut right unintentional but switching on to these when I was giving it full gas felt great yeah there were kind of like some people in my way on the lower half a nose dive there and I couldn't do everything I wanted to but it doesn't there's not much limit to grip or power stability in this thing I think like the only limit that it would have just comes from the it's not right 66 yeah but still like for an 84 I can't think of too many that are more torsionally stiff or nope more encouraging of aggressive skiing no I can't either uh I mean I think you're gonna have anything that's more and that's 84 or in the mid 80s that's more encouraging of aggressive skiing can't I can't think of a single thing no I mean like that Fisher the Curve GT85 we were on the other day that's that's pretty aggressive but it's also not as good at speed it doesn't have quite this level of power no and composure uh it's pretty pretty impressive yeah I do think it's like I wouldn't you know if you're shopping for a Montero AR I wouldn't just rush to get the pro but I think you're right that like yes there is a person out there that wants more ski than a Montero AR in this width and like yeah here you go I think they're gonna sell a million of them I think I think people are gonna just like just buy it sight unseen for better or for worse I mean that's what we said first thing we said about it when we first saw it yeah back in like December maybe like we went the Stokely offices in North America are like what four miles down the road yeah they're right there so we went and sat in a room and looked at them and yeah I think like both of us when they showed us we were like that's gonna put food on the plate for a while and like for good reason Stokely has a great reputation they've got a lot of momentum behind the brand and I think they they also have a lot of Montero AR fans yep and I think like you add up all those things and I think this is gonna be despite the fact that it is not inexpensive I think they will sell quite a few of them yep if you got the money and you want more than a regular AR this is this is the ticket yeah it is really good yeah yeah you can stand on this thing with full confidence as long as you got the the proper tune and also like that stuff is not soft not soft ice that is so firm ice ice ice ice ice yeah yeah all right well you go get some lunch okay let us know if you got any Montero AR pro questions and Bob and I will find some more skis to ski actually you might do something with Matt next great I'm going to take some photos again and go find something to do all right all right I'll follow you down there okay the uh the dirt seats are popular this year you think I can make it the whole way nailed it