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

where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested Butte, Colorado.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you, as always, can check out everything

we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com and on our YouTube channels, Blister Review

and Blister Studios. Today, Hoji is back on Gear 30 to weigh in on the great hybrid binding debate that Cody

Townsend and I had on our last episode of Gear 30.

And then, Hoji goes on to offer some thoughts on the future of ski binding technology.

Then he shares what he himself has been working on to

attempt to push the boundaries of ski gear performance.

And in the middle of all of this, Hoji shares his thoughts on what he calls the fields of belief

and disbelief, and that section in and of itself goes to show precisely why Hoji

continues to be our patron saint of Gear 30.

Okay, now before we get going here, first for any mountain bikers out there who have not yet

checked out our Blister bike buyers guide while our team has made

some very significant updates to several sections of the guide and I think it is clear now that

this is the best and most useful mountain bike buyer's guide in the bike world. You are welcome to check me on that,

but go check this guide out and judge for yourself. The thing really is super impressive.

So we will include a link to it in the show notes and whether you are in the market for a new

bike or potentially a used bike, or you just want to get

the lay of the current mountain bike landscape, I do now consider our bike buyer's guide,

a must read. Okay, another thing. Next week here on Gear 30, which will be our 400th episode of gear 30 we are going

to be talking about what we've decided to do with our 2627 winter buyers guide and i know from

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