Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over

at BlisterReview.com.

Today, Dr. Sean Humbert is back on Gear 30 to provide an update on our Blister Lab SkiFlex

project and to go over some of the results and takeaways from the on-snow ski testing

and dynamic modeling that we were working on this past ski season.

Now, in this conversation, we definitely get into the weeds a bit,

but hang in there if you're curious about ski design and you want to hear where the next

advances in ski design might be coming from. Also, Sean and I mentioned at the end of our conversation

the academic paper he published this past

spring about this project, and we will include a link to that paper in the show notes of this

episode if you'd like to check it out. Now, before we get started, I want to tell you about some

very big news. As you know, the Olympics are currently taking place and

the head physician for the USA Olympic team. That is all the USA Olympic sports teams. Well,

she is now the official medical director for our Blister Plus membership and it's included

Blister Plus Outdoor Injury Insurance.

Dr. Gloria Beam, who was on our Blister podcast, just before she headed to Paris,

is endorsing Blister Plus because, as an orthopedic surgeon who works out of Crested Butte and Telluride,

she sees firsthand the injuries that people get when skiing and trail

running and mountain biking and bike commuting and doing all of these mountain sports.

And she knows exactly how expensive those medical bills can get.

That's why Dr. Beam first purchased Blister Plus for her son and why she is now a

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