Blister Summit Panel on Ski Design
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BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Today we are airing the panel session on ski design that we held at the Blister Summit. We talk to the designers behind the skis from Blizzard, Folsom Custom Skis, Rossignol, Dynastar, and Wagner Custom Skis to get their respective design philosophies; discuss current trends in ski design; debate whether skis are being dumbed down today; determine once and for all whether stated sidecut radius numbers are fake; & more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Different approaches to ski design 01:46
- Jed Duke, Blizzard Skis 02:25
- Mike McCabe, Folsom Custom Skis 5:08
- Pete Wagner, Wagner Custom Skis 9:32
- Thor Verdonk, Rossignol & Dynastar 11:10
- Rank the top 3 innovations in ski design today 14:50
- Are skis being dumbed down today? 24:15
- How much has the manufacturing process changed? 33:06
- Women’s skis 40:06
- Current demand: specific touring skis vs. “50/50” skis 49:39
- Are stated sidecut radius numbers fake? 57:41
- Which ski design trends do you like best? 1:06:31
- Which ski design trends do you like least? 1:10:07
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:15.2 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:18.1 | Today on the show, we are running the panel session on ski design that we held at the first |
| 0:23.1 | ever blister summit earlier this year. |
| 0:26.6 | Now, for this panel session, we talked to the ski designers who are behind the skis from |
| 0:31.7 | Blizzard, aka Blizzard, Folsom Custom Skies, Rosignol, Dina Star, and Wagnum Custom Skies, and we get from |
| 0:41.2 | them their respective design philosophies. |
| 0:44.3 | We talk about current trends in ski design, whether skis are being dumbed down today, whether |
| 0:50.4 | stated sidecut radius numbers are simply fake, we talk about where current consumer |
| 0:56.3 | interests presently lie and more. |
| 0:59.4 | And you can also listen to and watch a video of this conversation in the show notes to this |
| 1:05.3 | episode on our website or over on our Blister YouTube channel where we've got a number of panel sessions and brand lineup videos for you to check out. |
| 1:15.9 | And you should definitely subscribe to our YouTube channel because we are going to be rolling out very soon a number of new video bike reviews. |
| 1:26.4 | I don't think you're going to want to miss those. |
| 1:28.6 | So you go to YouTube, you search for Blister Review, and voila. |
| 1:34.6 | There we are. |
| 1:36.0 | And now let's go ahead and get to this really interesting conversation on the current state of ski design. |
| 1:43.5 | Here we go. |
| 1:46.3 | Why don't we go ahead and get started? |
| 1:49.0 | And I will have each of you just give a brief introduction of who you are, what your |
| 1:57.7 | role is at your company. |
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