Eric Pollard on Innovation, Graphics, & Season's Ski Lineup
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
It is difficult to overstate the innovation that Eric Pollard has brought to modern skiing, and in this conversation, you’ll get to hear more about how Eric sees the world and finds himself pursuing new directions. We also talk about graphics; Season’s all-black topsheets; and each of the models in Season’s ski lineup.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- From ‘Drawn from Here’ to Season (3:27)
- 1st time meeting Austin Smith (8:14)
- Principles behind Season Eqpt (11:33)
- Skiers vs Snowboarders - (14:45)
- Graphics / Season’s black topsheets (18:01)
- Teams (34:07)
- Season’s ski lineup (38:50)
- Aero - design concepts (42:14)
- Mount points (46:13)
- Hypothetical: coming up now vs when you did (48:16)
- More on the Aero (55:57)
- Ski width (1:01:38)
- Kin (1:06:35)
- Nexus and Forma (1:10:52)
- What else are you working on now? (1:15:40)
- What We’re Celebrating (1:19:40)
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- Blister Summit Registration
- Subscribe to our Newsletter & Gear Giveaways
- Become a Blister Member / Get our Buyer’s Guide
- Blister Podcast: Eric Pollard
- Blister Podcast: Season Co-Founder, Austin Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over |
| 0:15.1 | at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:18.5 | Okay, earlier this week on our Blister podcast, we had season co-founder Austin Smith on to talk about the |
| 0:26.4 | snowboard side of things at this young new company season. |
| 0:31.0 | And then today, we've got Eric Pollard making his Gear 30 debut to talk about the ski side of season, plus a whole lot more. |
| 0:41.6 | Now, most of you know that it is difficult to overstate the innovation that Eric has brought |
| 0:47.4 | to modern skiing, and in this conversation, you'll get to hear more about how he sees the |
| 0:53.4 | world and finds himself pursuing |
| 0:55.7 | new directions. Basically, this conversation is a little bit like pulling the curtain back |
| 1:01.6 | on Eric's brain, which turns out it's pretty cool. Now, we also mention this Blister podcast |
| 1:09.8 | conversation that Eric and I had a while back, and we will |
| 1:13.5 | include a link to that conversation in the show notes here if you happen to miss that conversation |
| 1:19.5 | the first time around. But if you like this one, I promise you're going to like that one, |
| 1:24.8 | and it's worth a revisit. Now, just a couple of notes for you |
| 1:28.9 | before we get going. First of all, registration is open for the Blister Summit and we will include a link |
| 1:36.4 | to the show notes in this episode for that. And a lot of people are signing up and claiming their spot. |
| 1:44.0 | So if you're interested, I wouldn't wait. |
| 1:48.0 | Now, related note, whether you are coming out to the Blister Summit |
| 1:52.0 | or you're coming out here in the next four or five weeks to mountain bike in the Gunnison Valley |
| 1:58.0 | as the leaves are turning, and it is now currently almost |
| 2:02.6 | too beautiful to handle around here or you're planning to come out here this winter at some |
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