Ski Development & Ski Testing with AJ Kruajitch & Jake Stevens

GEAR:30

BLISTER

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

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Few people spend as many days as we do testing skis on snow. But Rossignol’s AJ Kruajitch definitely does. So Jonathan Ellsworth spent a day at Les Deux Alpes going through AJ’s testing process, then talking with him and Jake Stevens about the similarities and differences in our approaches.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Introducing Jake & AJ (2:51)
Brand development since 1907 (17:13)
The testing process: similarities & differences (20:17)
“Band of Tasters” (40:10)
Accounting for different tastes (48:05)
What We’re Celebrating (56:10)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:10.6	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over
0:16.2	at blisterreview.com.
0:19.7	Okay, today we've got another European conversation for you, because I'm actually still
0:26.5	over here in Europe, and this is a really interesting conversation.
0:32.2	This past week, I had the chance to get on snow with Rosignolls, Jake Stevens, and AJ Khrigich.
0:40.9	And honestly, this was one of the most interesting days of ski testing that I've had in 12 years of
0:50.5	blister. But the fact is that AJ is probably one of the very few people on earth
0:59.1	who are actually out spending as many days testing skis as we are. It was really fascinating
1:07.7	to go through the process with AJ and then to really see where we are
1:14.4	similar in terms of some of our approaches and actually where we are pretty radically different.
1:22.0	So that is what we have for you today.
1:24.7	Well, one, we're going to introduce you to an absolute legend of the
1:29.9	ski industry, AJ, that is no joke. And two, you're going to get to hear just a whole lot about
1:36.8	the process of ski development and ski testing. Now, I need to give you a bit of a heads up here. My voice is just scorched in this
1:49.0	conversation. Basically, I flew to Europe and then did every single thing that you should not do
1:58.2	to try to deal with jet lag, including like staying up past 6am, the second
2:05.9	night I was in Europe.
2:07.8	And then there were just some other very questionable choices that were made.
2:12.9	So apologies that I kind of sound like death.
2:16.8	I don't know if the strikingly handsome Justin Bob was really able to sort of do anything
2:22.3	with my voice on this one.
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