Prior Snowboards & Skis, with Dominic Morin

GEAR:30

BLISTER

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

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We talk to Prior’s head snowboard and ski shaper, Dominic Morin, about the origins of Prior, their philosophy of ski and snowboard shaping, their craziest designs, their new shapes for 19/20, and the legacy of Chris Prior.

TOPICS & TIMES:

The origins of Prior (2:15)
Why Prior shapes cores by hand (3:43)
What’s the craziest custom design you’ve done? (8:08)
How do your snowboard designs influence Prior’s ski designs? (12:13)
Why is there a wider variety of snowboard shapes than ski shapes? (15:38)
The Prior CBC and Husume (20:23)
The Prior Northwest 110 and 100 (26:06)
Why Prior has several niche models (31:12)
How does Prior respond to trends in snowboard shapes? (33:37)
Chris Prior’s lasting legacy (42:21)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:10.7	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and as always, you can check out everything
0:15.3	we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:20.7	This week we are talking with Dominic Morin, the head snowboard and ski shaper at Pryor,
0:26.2	which is an independent ski and snowboard manufacturer based in Whistler, BC.
0:32.1	Our senior editor Sam Shaheen recently spoke with Dominic about the origins of
0:36.7	Prior, their philosophy of ski and
0:39.2	snowboard shaping, their craziest designs, their new shapes for 1920, and the lasting legacy
0:47.0	of Pryor's founder, Chris Pryor. Before we get started, I want to remind you that the
0:52.8	Student Outdoor Leadership and Education
0:55.4	Conference will be held April 5th through the 7th at Western Colorado University in Gunnison,
1:02.3	Colorado. We here at Blister are proud to be a sponsor of the Seoul Conference this year,
1:07.6	and the conference promises to offer a packed weekend of networking,
1:12.1	learning, and competition. This year, one of the primary focuses of the Seoul Conference
1:17.0	is the question of what it means to make an impact in the outdoor industry. For more
1:23.5	information, please visit soleconference.com, and please let any of the students in your life
1:29.5	know about this soul conference. And now let's get to Sam Shaheen's conversation with Pryor's
1:36.3	Dominic Morin. Hi, I'm Sam Shaheen. I'm a senior editor at Blister and I'm talking today with
1:43.8	Dominic Morin with
1:45.5	Pryor. He is the shaper at Pryor, right? That's your title and that's your name. I didn't
1:50.2	screw that up. I think it was a really, really good pronunciation for an English guy. That's
1:56.5	good. Well, you did tell me how to say it just before we started recording, so I don't want to take too much credit.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BLISTER, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BLISTER and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.