Last week I dropped by the first regional trade show to retrieve the fresh-off-the-presses 2020 catalogs for most of the mainstream brands. This seemingly sterile exercise gives me an overview of the market that reveals which ski genre is attracting the most...
Realskiers regulars who can sense any ripple of change in the site have no doubt noted by now that there’s a new member in the cast of reviewed ski brands, Liberty. As Liberty is the only supplier we cover with an owner/founder/designer as its CEO, allow me first to...
Reflections on the Product Lifecycle I recently had occasion to re-enter every one of the 240 ski reviews I penned prior to the 2015/16 ski season, in order to clean up the review archives maintained in Realskiers’ members’ site. It surprised me how ancient the model...
For the past few seasons, the intense competition for the high-end ski dollar drove ski makers to maintain a galloping pace of product improvement. Even wildly successful models, such as Rossi’s runaway Big Mountain hit, the Soul 7, underwent annual makeovers. The...
I just returned Sunday night from the first combined SIA/OR show and I’m still processing all that transpired. In my little corner of the world, the show couldn’t have been any better, but then, trade shows are almost always fertile ground for journalists. But it’s...
