Stöckli Laser WRT Skis 2026/2027 (also known as Stockli)

Ski the Laser WRT and Stöckli's brief shows itself fast: a firm-snow race carver that trades width and float for grip and drive off the edge. One independent on-snow test loved the crisp energy out of it and rated it as quiet, smooth and stable as skis get on this planet - with the standing caveat that you need smooth, firm surfaces to get the most from it. A separate magazine review of the same ski pitched it at masters racers and advanced skiers hunting G-force carves, and put the feel plainly: the more you tipped, the more it ripped. Two tests, not one consensus - and since 26/27 is a carryover with an unchanged article number, both describe today's ski.

The reason lives in the layup. Under the boot is a Race Core of beech and poplar - the heavier, damper of Stöckli's woods - reinforced with carbon rather than metal: a carbon steering laminate up front for high-speed composure, and carbon power-turn inserts beside the plate that load through the arc and snap at the exit. Nothing metal appears in the WRT's published construction, and Stöckli prints neither a weight nor the full stack, so we quote neither and never sub in a third-party scale figure.

The cost of that focus is range. The ski wants an active, centered, aggressive pilot and punishes a passive one - the on-snow test was blunt that it is no ski for the timid. At 67 mm it barely floats; one reviewer noted the waist is so narrow it needs firm snow to bite into and hold, which leaves powder, crud and off-trail as compromises rather than a home. It is a specialist and skis like one.

Its place in the Laser line decides most purchases, because three siblings sit close. The WRT Pro takes the identical 119-67-101 footprint and 12.3-16.0 m radius band but swaps to Titec Pro aluminum and an RBA Race Base and drops the carbon steering layer - the expert race-day trim, with a power ceiling above what the carbon WRT reaches. The Laser SL (120-66-98, from 11.0 m, in shorter lengths) is the dedicated short-turn slalom tool the multiturn WRT only samples. The wider Laser SC (70 mm) is the relaxed, all-day member of the family.

Sizing is easy because the shape never changes with length - length alone sets the radius. PTO carries the 166, 172 and 178 cm: the 166 for the quickest rhythm, the 178 for the longest arcs at speed, with the 158 Stöckli catalogs kept out of our range. Every WRT rides on a plate, so buy the full system with the binding fitted in-shop by a technician, or predrilled and let us mount the one you pick; the binding section below lists the exact plate-and-binding options.