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GEAR:30

DPS Skis 19/20 Lineup with Stephan Drake

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We talk to DPS Skis founder, Stephan Drake, about the new DPS 19/20 product lineup, and about two new skis — that incorporate a brand-new construction — they are introducing for their DPS “Dreamtime” event, which officially runs from July 15th to August 1st.

Stephan also breaks news about their “Koala” skis, gives an update on the DPS ski boots that he and I spoke about back on Ep. 38 of the Blister Podcast, and shares some new developments with DPS Phantom base glide treatment.


TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Building skis in Salt Lake City, Utah (2:45)
  • What is “DPS Dreamtime”? (7:17)
  • Foam & DPS’ new construction (11:01)
  • DPS Wailer 100 RP vs 112 RP (25:10)
  • DPS’s “C2“ vs “RP” (29:30)
  • The redesigned DPS Wailer 106 (35:12)
  • DPS freestyle skis / DPS Koala 119 (36:25)
  • Update on the DPS Ski boot (41:10)
  • Update on DPS Phantom (44:27)


Other Conversations We’ve Had with Stephan:


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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, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

0:18.9

Yesterday, I spoke with DPS Ski's founder Stefan Drake about the new DPS 1920 product lineup,

0:26.4

and about two new skis they are introducing for their DPS Dreamtime event, which officially

0:32.1

runs from July 15th to August 1st.

0:35.4

And while the two new skis are certainly interesting, what is arguably

0:39.7

even bigger news is the new tour construction that DPS is employing in these two skis. In short,

0:46.9

this new construction incorporates foam. Yes, I said foam. Now, I realized that the words

0:53.9

foam core probably just triggered about 35% of the people listening

0:58.0

to this, and you can count me among that 35%.

1:02.0

So, of course, I pressed Stefan on this, but as you'll hear, he wasn't exactly backing down,

1:09.0

and he is making a very interesting case that I am sure you are

1:12.9

going to want to hear. But that is most definitely not all. Stefan also breaks some news about their

1:20.3

koala skis, and in particular the koala 119. He gives an update on the DPS ski boots that he and I

1:27.2

spoke about over on the Blister podcast a couple years ago.

1:30.4

It was episode number 38.

1:32.6

And you should very much listen to that conversation if you haven't already.

1:36.8

And we then wrap up our conversation by talking about some new developments and some new data regarding DPS Phantom Baseglide treatment.

1:45.3

So yeah, there is a whole lot going on in this conversation that any self-respecting

1:50.1

gearhead is going to want to hear about.

1:53.2

And yeah, taking a step back for a second, it has been a wild couple of weeks of conversations

1:57.8

around here about innovations in materials, ranging from our

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