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What happened to Klint skis?

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codizzle
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13 years ago
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codizzle
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gone out of business ?
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Jahseph.
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Spriggs is riding for them still
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YoungChristmas
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Pretty sure they're alive and well. I just checked they're facebook and theyre shipping out 2013 models.
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Chute-E
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Unfortunately he posted this on fb today, "Lookin for a ski sponsor....:("

I don't think he does anymore

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3mania
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Tanner Rainville kills it pretty hard on Klints.
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Gharf
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i m pretty sure he kills it  on any brand of skis... :)
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skodeo7
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Not sure what happened but I don't like the sounds of it. Bummed for Downey, Rains and all the rest.
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Ghini
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one does not simply start a ski brand
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chiefbroseph
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you can see candide charging on them in few words.
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1337
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hasen't he riden for a bunch of companies over a very short period of time?
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S.Ki
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Wrong. As far as I know Candine went from Coreupt to Faction. He's never been on Klint.
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1337
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oh damn, that sucks big time
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Jacuse
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ForeverYung
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Just saw this and came to check NS to see what's up. Bermans comment makes me worried...
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chubbspeterson
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hes probably bummed he isnt getting paid for having rainville footage
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Backyard.Skier
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hmm what happened to them??
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VD.
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I've only seen the teaser for few words but in it he's riding skis made by faction,coreupt, klint and armada
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cheener12
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first coreupt, now this??????
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Session
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WAIT!......I though Klint was such a great company and was so awesome to their team......Guess not.

Funny how people were coming on here sucking Klint dick a year ago.
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1337
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before this thread gets out of hand, anyone have the actual story of what is going on?
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BWalmer
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this...
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SKI.ING
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ON3P fanboy with knowledge, but clouded judgement so he just rages instead. Also curious on what happened with this. Our SOS club was just sponsored by them and was going to pick a pair up.
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Good_Deed
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How not to last in the ski world.

Step 1 - Get a stacked team of at least 5 big name pros before you sell your first pair of skis.

Step 2 - Not making enough sales? Just add more pro team members.


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zahava
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It might be cus they true to expand so quickly in bad economic times. On3p really doesn't produce a hole lot, an surface and Icelandic expanded slowly. A lot of boutique brands like faction are huge in Europe as well.
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Session
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Yah,
I also currently own Line,and Armada ski's. I also spent most of the season last year on Bent Chetlers. How clouded is my judgement?

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philskier
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sounds crazy... 
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SKI.ING
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Knowledge from other threads. And you probably owned the other brands from before you heard about ON3P. And most of you guys like to shit on other ski brands, so I just put it all together for why you would put that comment in a thread about a ski brand going under.
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mattytru
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dingle KILLS it. skied with him for a few years when he was still in stowe; he's a ridiculously talented skier
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Session
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LOL.....No.

But I would like to get back to finding out how a licensing company that puts branding like Paul Frank on snowboards and ski's from anonymous chinese factories could possibly fail. Especially after signing a rad team.

Oh yah....People have to actually buy the skis.
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lukewalnuts
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still wondering about a story...???
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blindside
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Here for the story. It's a few years in making, but the twintip industry's saturated.. The big players are in place filling most of the market share, there's not enough left for all the small/medium contestants.
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BWalmer
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This isn't entirely true. It's more that there isn't a place for startup companies that want to be the big guys right away (i.e. Coreupt, Klint, ect). Small companies that stay smaller, will do fine, obviously they have to work harder and can't expand beyond their limits, but if they're smart they'll do OK. Look at companies like Surface, ON3P, Moment, Icelandic, ect. They're all doing OK, expanding slowly, building core teams with the occasional mid to mid/high level names, a small amount of retail stores to work with, direct sales from the shop. They're doing fine because they didn't try and start at the top.
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Bloc_chain
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totally called this
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FUUUCK
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hmmm maybe this means I can get a pair of Kryptos on the cheap.
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joshua
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Its for these reasons that I feel like APO is not going to last long either. Mabeye they will learn from the mistakes of other companies like Klint and Coreupt, but they seem to be trying to start at the top too, and we have seen that doesn't work over the past few years.
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Slowbro
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They've been at the top in snowboarding for a long time, and have made skis for a while but kept a team of smaller names until this year, so I think they will probably last.
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BWalmer
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APO's been around for a while, they were just focused mostly on snowboarding and based more in Europe. They'll probably be fine overall (at least as a company as a whole...they may eventually drop the ski side of their brand). Skis are more of a side project to snowboarding for them.
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blindside
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Good point, there are established niches within our niche.. And definitely a noticeable pattern emerging from that 'top-down' model..
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zahava
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But who would buy skis from a snowboard company? Similar tech but they aren't skiers.
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BWalmer
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Anybody who buys Amplids....

Also, most the big name brands have a snowboard division (K2, Salomon, Rossi, ect.). But my point was more that they're able to afford the big names they're picking up because they have backing from their snowboard brand, and they're picking up big names so they can promote their ski brand more (APO has been making skis for a while...just no one knew about them cause they had zero riders).
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zahava
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K2/Salomon/Rossi all started in makings skis. Amplids are pretty sick, I've never ridden em. They seem to understand what a real skis is though. They have been making skis for a while though and t-wall helped a ton when he blew up. No one has really ridden APO's yet, so buying a pair is a gamble.
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joshua
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Whoa, I had no idea APO wasn't an entirely new company, my mistake.
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GayWolf420
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Doubt you've even ridden their skis. They're real fun.
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cheezeNbacon
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all i want to know is what happened damit
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dmc12380
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APO will probably do even better now, maybe pick up some people who got dropped by forum.
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polmei
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but they already have all their snowboard basis
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Coalescent
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I support KLINT 100%. I don't want to see this happen one bit. Hopefully everything get's turned around. I'm going to blame this all on the winter season last year..
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C.A.V.
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out of business,went bankrupt , there goes my sponsor :(
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RockNRollNghtClb
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its a shame, downey and t rains have two of the best styles in skiing ever
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Momo.
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Aww man that really sucks, I feel bad for those guys:/
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