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PTO Review
We skied them. Here's how they stack up.
Laser MP — sporty, ambitious women who carve groomers in short, quick turns and want race-line edge grip without race-line effort - especially lighter or less powerful skiers the softflex and piste core light are built for. Laser SX — piste skiers who want one comfortable, wide-range carver and prefer all-day ease to race-build effort. Check the radar chart below to see where each one wins.
Each row compares all skis on one dimension. 🏆 marks the highest score.
| Dimension | Laser MP | Laser SX |
|---|---|---|
| Carving | 9🏆 | 8 |
| Park | 1🏆 | 1🏆 |
| Playfulness | 5🏆 | 5🏆 |
| Forgiveness | 6🏆 | 6🏆 |
| Stability | 8🏆 | 7 |
| Powder | 3🏆 | 2 |
Sporty, ambitious women who carve groomers in short, quick turns and want race-line edge grip without race-line effort - especially lighter or less powerful skiers the Softflex and Piste Core Light are built for. It suits advanced intermediates through experts who live on firm, groomed snow and put the ski on edge.
Soft-snow and off-piste skiers: at 67 mm, reviewed as fully cambered, it has little float and goes reluctant the moment the snow softens - its best runs are on firm morning corduroy. Beginners and cautious, progressing skiers: the narrow waist can be tricky and it wants edge angle - running flat is not its strength, so it is not a learning ski. Comfort-first women who want effortless all-day cruising should take the softer, wider, tail-rockered Laser MX (71 mm) instead - Stöckli builds the MX for exactly that and the MP for the opposite. One-ski-quiver buyers should look wider: versatility is mid-pack by design, this is a piste specialist. And anyone set on the 166 cm should note PTO stocks the 148, 154 and 160 only.
Piste skiers who want one comfortable, wide-range carver and prefer all-day ease to race-build effort. It suits medium-to-long-turn skiers at moderate-to-fast speed — the Laser SX runs the longest radius in the line — who value low-input, forgiving manners on groomed and variable hard snow over maximum edge bite. Stöckli's own brief calls it a genuine all-rounder among piste skis.
Powder and off-piste skiers: at 74 mm on a pure on-piste geometry the Laser SX has no float, and the wider range Stöckli talks about is range within the groomers, not off them. Short-turn and slalom-rhythm skiers: the radius bottoms out at 13.1 m, and quick edge-to-edge belongs to the Laser CX or the shorter Laser SL. Skiers chasing race-level grip and power: there is no Race Core, no carbon, and no racing sidewall here, and the 1.5° comfort base bevel is not the 1.0° race tune of the SC and WRT — that bite lives on those skis, not this one. Anyone who needs a published on-snow test before buying should wait: this generation is completely redesigned and no independent review of it exists yet — every existing Laser SX review is of the older, narrower ski and does not apply. And Stöckli lists no skier level of its own; read this as an intermediate-to-advanced piste ski, inferred from its mechanics rather than measured on snow.
The Laser MP is best for sporty, ambitious women who carve groomers in short, quick turns and want race-line edge grip without race-line effort. The Laser SX is best for piste skiers who want one comfortable, wide-range carver and prefer all-day ease to race-build effort. The right choice depends on your primary terrain, ability level, and riding style.
The Stöckli Laser MP scores highest in Stability at 8/10, making it the strongest all-mountain option. It handles groomers, chop, and variable conditions without losing composure, so it's the best single-ski choice for skiers who want one pair for the whole mountain.
The Stöckli Laser MP leads in Carving with a PTO score of 9/10. Its edge grip on hard snow and groomed runs is the strongest in this comparison.
The Stöckli Laser MP is the most forgiving option with a Forgiveness score of 6/10. It doesn't punish imperfect technique, making it the easiest ski to progress on among these.
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