Q&A with Hoji: Gear, Training, Mental Prep, the Blister Summit, & More

GEAR:30

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Eric Hjorleifson is back on GEAR:30 to answer questions from our Blister Members about gear; his tinkering process; coming to the Blister Summit; how he trains for an upcoming season; mental preparation, and … we get some bonus questions from Markus Eder, too. (We also announce our new “Blister After Hours” sessions — that’s our working title — so learn about that and let us know if you have better ideas for what we ought to call the new show.)

TOPICS & TIMES:

Catching Up / Coming to the Blister Summit (3:34)
What gear is going to change most in the next 10 years? (13:03)
Our Alpine Bindings Test (16:19)
What gear do people obsess over that doesn’t really matter? (18:19)
How has your skiing changed as you’ve gotten older? (19:46)
When are you moving to Austria? (27:26)
Golden Alpine Holidays lodges (30:07)
Touring binding priorities? (35:45)
What would you like to design from scratch? (43:04)
Mental Prep for something challenging? (46:14)
The Bec des Rosses (55:31)
Which element of your setup gets you the most excited to tinker with? (57:10)
Bode Miller & Hoji on 3-piece boots (59:29)
Training to perform at a high level? (1:11:37)
Dumbest thing you've seen Markus Eder do? (1:20:28)
What’s your process like for gear modification? (1:29:21)
Do I really get to ski with Hoji at the Blister Summit? (1:44:02)
What’s up next for you? (1:44:31)
What We're Celebrating (1:47:11)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:10.4	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:15.9	blisterreview.com.
0:19.1	Okay, today we have our patron saint of Gear 30, Eric Heurlifson, back on, and this time
0:27.5	the format is a bit different because this time all of our questions are coming from our
0:35.0	beloved blister members,
0:39.0	and I have to say,
0:42.2	you all asked a ton of really good questions.
0:46.4	Now, that means we didn't get through all of them,
0:48.2	but listen up in this episode because we are announcing a new initiative
0:51.0	where basically you're going to have the chance to ask Hoji those questions of
0:56.9	yours yourself. And that's not all, folks, because you are also going to have the opportunity
1:04.3	to talk in person with Hoji and go ski with him because he is going to be at our Blister Summit this coming February.
1:14.4	And so if you haven't already signed up to come to the Blister Summit, well, my goodness, you get to now ski with Hoji.
1:22.3	So we will include a link in the show notes of this episode for you to register for the Blister Summit. You can also
1:29.0	just go to our Blister website and on the navigation bar it says Blister Summit. You can get all the
1:36.0	dates, all the information, all the rest. And so Summit and come hang out with Hoji and the rest
1:41.8	of the Blister team. And we'll be talking about some other
1:45.4	folks that'll be stopping by the summit as well soon.
1:50.3	Now, just one other thing to say.
1:52.2	You'll hear that Marcus Ader also submitted some questions for Hoji.
1:57.4	We have a full conversation with Marcus dropping this Monday on our Blister podcast.
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