The Design & Development of the New DPS Carbon Pisteworks 79
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, DPS introduced a new product that represents quite a departure for the company: the DPS Carbon Pisteworks 79. And today, you’re going to hear one of the deepest dives we’ve ever done on GEAR:30 about the design and development of a new ski; how Blister Labs was involved; and the lengthy process of developing a ‘metal ski without the metal.’
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Weight & Suspension (11:47)
Ted Ligety's Involvement (19:27)
Dr. Sean Humbert (22:19)
Goals for the Project
Numerical Simulation (38:36)
Modal Testing (48:21)
Lab Tests & Field Measurements (49:51)
Building a Metal Ski Without the Metal (51:18)
Locating the DPS Pisteworks 79 (53:09)
Where to Get the Pisteworks 79 (57:06)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network, |
| 0:09.0 | where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested Butte, Colorado. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and |
| 0:22.3 | reviewing over at blisterreview.com. This week, DPS introduced a new product that represents |
| 0:30.8 | quite a departure for a company whose focus has always been on soft snow skis. And for those of you who happened to watch the Birds of Prey |
| 0:40.5 | World Cup ski races this past weekend out at Beaver Creek, it was quite a thing to see Ted Liggety |
| 0:47.5 | on the Birds of Prey course and standing in the start gate with the letters DPS emblazoned on the basis of his ski tips. |
| 0:57.3 | And that ski you saw is the ski that we are going to be talking about here today. |
| 1:02.7 | And in other interesting news, a few weeks ago, you may have heard me talk over on our |
| 1:08.6 | Blister podcast about testing some prototype skis |
| 1:12.6 | with Ted and with Tumasloxo and Stu Gleason from DPS. We'll include a link to that |
| 1:19.0 | Blister podcast episode in the show notes of this episode. And in this conversation right here, |
| 1:24.7 | you're going to get to hear more about the final results of that day, |
| 1:28.5 | and for DPS, a project that has been in the works for several years now. |
| 1:35.5 | And if all of that wasn't already enough, you're going to be hearing about how Blister Labs |
| 1:40.6 | was involved in the development of this project, and we are going to be joined by |
| 1:45.2 | Dr. Sean Humbert, Josh Priest, and DPS's Stu Gleason to talk a good bit about all of that. |
| 1:54.2 | So, yeah, there are lots of interesting angles to this new DPS PeaceWork 79 ski, and today you're going to be getting quite a deep dive |
| 2:04.7 | into the development and design of this new ski that is now available for pre-order on the DPS site |
| 2:11.3 | and DPS is going to be at our Blister Summit in February with the new PeaceWork 79, and I am really |
| 2:20.8 | interested to hear what our Blister Summit attendees think of this new ski. So we'll also include |
| 2:28.5 | a link to the Blister Summit in the show notes of this episode. Check it out. There is a ton going on per usual, and you are not |
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