Faction Skis: Company History & 20/21 Lineup
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
For some time now, Faction has been one of the hottest brands in skiing. But how much do you actually know about the company? This week we are talking about the history of the brand, some key moments in the company, and some big recent changes; you’ll hear what it’s like to go skiing with and design skis for Candide Thovex; and we go over Faction’s lineup for the upcoming season.
We’re joined by Faction engineer, Daniel Tanzer; product manager, Josh Cohen; and North American marketing manager and mono ski advocate, Hank Lampert.
TOPICS & TIMES
- How do you describe Faction? (3:05)
- Introductions: Hank, Josh, Daniel (4:32)
- Changing factories and turning points in Faction’s history (11:21)
- Designing skis with Candide (19:38)
- 20/21 Lineup: Dictator series (33:03)
- Agent Series (47:06)
- Prodigy and Candide series (51:40)
- Le Mono (55:01)
- Le Machine (57:45)
- Le Mogul (1:00:33)
- Final Thoughts (1:05:54)
- What We’re Celebrating (1:07:25)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're up to, including all of our other podcasts, over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:22.6 | This week on the show, we are talking about all things, faction skis, with three of factions |
| 0:28.8 | finest. We've got Hank Lampert, Josh Cohen, and Daniel Tanzer with us, and I talk with |
| 0:36.1 | them about the history of the brand, including some of |
| 0:39.3 | the watershed moments in the history of the company. We get brought up to speed on some of the |
| 0:45.2 | big recent changes at faction. We hear about what it's like to go skiing with and design |
| 0:52.4 | skis for Candid Tovex. and then we go over Factions's entire |
| 0:58.0 | lineup for the upcoming season, which means that we end up talking about monoskies and |
| 1:03.9 | mogul skis and big fat pow skis. So, you know, you've got that to look forward to. |
| 1:10.0 | This is a good one, and I am confident that all of you are going to learn something about faction that you didn't know before. |
| 1:19.4 | Now, before we dive into all of that, I want to remind you that we have teamed up with Spot to make sure that you know that we all now have an actually |
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| 1:49.9 | for each time you get injured. And while Spot works with and covers a lot of skiers and |
| 1:56.6 | mountain bikers and snowboarders and skateboarders, I wonder how many monoskiers they work with, |
| 2:01.6 | by the way. I don't know. We should look into that. Anyway, spot policies cover you 24-7 worldwide, |
| 2:09.2 | whether you accidentally fall down the stairs because you were too busy texting on your phone, |
| 2:14.7 | or whether you break your elbow trying to do some candied-esque rail slide through |
| 2:21.0 | like a European cow pasture or something. |
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