Ideal for new skiers and those who just want to cruise all day for fun the practical and affordable women's Sweet Luv ski from K2 fits your easy weekend lifestyle. It's a practical pick for recreational riders who want to cruise the sane sides of the mountain but it has just enough float to take you untracked when you're ready. Inside the Sweet Luv is a triaxially braided glass configuration around the lively spruce and fir wood core giving the ski exceptional rebound and response. While K2's torsion box design has been around for a number of years it remains one of the best (and critically-acclaimed) ski construction techniques because of performance and versatility. If you're wondering about the mix of fir and spruce in the core that's the key element in K2's female-specific BioFlex design. K2 created a stable and forgiving profile by using spruce at the tip and tail and fir beneath the binding area. Using spruce at the ends helps with turn initiation and enhances the lightweight characteristics that are essential in keeping a female-specific ski more responsive than a heavier unisex ski design. Another refinement is K2's Mod Technology a secondary core that's independent of the spruce and fir core. Mod Technology dampens vibrations without messing with the ski's overall flex. This improves the ski-to-snow contact while reducing the bouncing chatter. The result is a smoother ride that carries through a range of terrain with predictable consistency. Combined with the M2 10.0 binding the Sweet Luv delivers excellent carving potential that will please aggressive skiers without any of the unsettling chatter that sometimes rattles advancing intermediates. This binding doesn't have the lightweight titanium refinements found in K2's top-of-the-line Marker M1 integrated systems but you'll probably appreciate the cost savings--and the peace of mind with every turn into the fall line. Just like last year K2 will donate a portion of their proceeds from all K2 women's products to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation--as if you needed another reason to pick up a pair of Sweet Luvs for you or a friend.