Setting a New Standard: Atomic’s Daron Rahlves, Janelle Yip, & Noah Wallace on Crash Stories & How Companies are Protecting Athletes
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan talks with Atomic athletes Daron Rahlves and Janelle Yip, and Noah Wallace, the global manager for the Atomic freeski program. We get into what Daron and Janelle are doing just before ski season kicks off; the return of a beloved event put on by Daron; and Janelle tells the story of her gnarly crash this past winter. That then segues into why Atomic decided to cover their entire global freeski team with BLISTER+, and why we all want to see companies continue to take better care of their athletes.
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Pre-Season Training (5:49)
Upcoming Season & the Return of Bonzai (13:59)
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Industry Responses to Team Coverage (27:43)
The Culture of the Ski Industry (35:56)
Janelle’s Crash & Recovery Story (39:42)
Eliminating “Gotcha” Clauses & Providing Coverage (48:07)
Coverage For All — Not Just Pro Athletes (53:02)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything. |
| 0:11.9 | We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:17.1 | Today, we are talking with Atomic Athletes, Darren Rolves and Janelle Yip, and Noah Wallace, a former pro skier who is now the global manager for the Atomic Free Ski Program. |
| 0:30.5 | Now, this is a pretty wide-ranging conversation, but we get into what Darren and Janelle are doing just before ski season kicks off here, |
| 0:40.3 | what their training looks like, and where they're going, just before the start of the season. |
| 0:46.1 | Now, we also talk about the return of a beloved event put on by Darren, |
| 0:52.3 | and for the first time, you're going to get the story from Janelle |
| 0:57.1 | of a pretty wild and pretty gnarly crash that happened to her this past season. |
| 1:03.6 | Now, it turns out that Janelle and Darren happen to be Blister Plus members since Atomic |
| 1:10.1 | is covering their entire global freesky team with Blister Plus members since Atomic is covering their entire global free ski team with Blister Plus. |
| 1:14.6 | So you are going to get to hear from Janelle. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, first, one heck of a crash story, but you're also going to get to hear her just talk about what the experience of actually using Blister Plus was like. |
| 1:29.5 | Did it work? |
| 1:30.7 | Was it complicated? |
| 1:32.1 | How much money has the program saved her? |
| 1:35.7 | That type of thing. |
| 1:36.9 | So those are a few of the things that we'll be touching on in this conversation. |
| 1:40.8 | So give it a listen and I really hope that many of you are going to be |
| 1:46.5 | getting on snow soon. For me, it's going to be Wednesday. This Wednesday is when my season |
| 1:54.8 | kicks off and I bet a bunch of you are going to get on snow this week too. So let it snow. And here we go. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, I am very happy to be here with this all-star team. Noah Wallace, Darren Rolves, and |
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