Howdy everybody?

Welcome back to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

My name is Luke Kappa. I am the managing editor at Blister,

and I'm coming to you from our home base in Elevation Hotel in Prestoute, Colorado.

As always, you can check out everything we are doing and reviewing over

at blisterreview.com. Today, we are focusing on the intersection of ski gear and ski technique,

and we're tackling some questions I've always been really curious about. For example,

do narrower skis actually help you carve better on

feast? What about in moguls? And what sort of skis are the best skiers in the world

actually using? For less experienced folks, do certain skis make it easier to progress? And for advanced

skiers looking to improve, is there some sort of ideal training setup? To offer insight on all

of this and a lot more, I am joined by Jamie Salter, the VP of Engineering at Carve, and Yens

Nystrom, a level four ski instructor and one of the key people at Stompett tutorials and

Stompett camps. Now, Jamie put together a bunch of really interesting data for this conversation, which

evaluates the gear-related trends he's noticed when analyzing cars on snow data for

thousands of skiers and skis.

And if you want to look at the numbers yourself, check out the episode post on our site,

where I've included several screenshots

of the data that we referenced throughout this conversation.

Now, balancing out Jamie's quantitative perspective, Yenz adds his qualitative perspective,

having worked with a huge number of skiers of all backgrounds and ability levels

throughout his instructing career and the

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