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What happened to Klint skis?

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codizzle
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Oct 27 2012 12:02AM
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codizzle
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gone out of business ?
Oct 27 2012 12:06AM
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Jahseph.
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Spriggs is riding for them still
Oct 27 2012 12:09AM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 12:13AM
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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

Oct 27 2012 12:44AM
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3mania
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Tanner Rainville kills it pretty hard on Klints.
Oct 27 2012 1:46AM
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Gharf
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i m pretty sure he kills it  on any brand of skis... :)
Oct 27 2012 4:08AM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 6:22AM
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Ghini
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one does not simply start a ski brand
Oct 27 2012 6:42AM
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chiefbroseph
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you can see candide charging on them in few words.
Oct 27 2012 9:19AM
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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?
Oct 27 2012 9:26AM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 9:31AM
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1337
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oh damn, that sucks big time
Oct 27 2012 9:49AM
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Jacuse
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Oct 27 2012 4:22PM
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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...
Oct 27 2012 6:47PM
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chubbspeterson
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hes probably bummed he isnt getting paid for having rainville footage
Oct 27 2012 7:30PM
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Backyard.Skier
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hmm what happened to them??
Oct 27 2012 7:55PM
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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
Oct 27 2012 7:58PM
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cheener12
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first coreupt, now this??????
Oct 27 2012 8:01PM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 8:14PM
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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?
Oct 27 2012 8:32PM
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BWalmer
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this...
Oct 27 2012 9:13PM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 9:23PM
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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.


Oct 27 2012 9:28PM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 9:31PM
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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?

Oct 27 2012 9:34PM
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philskier
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sounds crazy... 
Oct 27 2012 11:14PM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 11:21PM
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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
Oct 27 2012 11:28PM
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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.
Oct 27 2012 11:56PM
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lukewalnuts
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still wondering about a story...???
Oct 28 2012 12:07AM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 11:33AM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 11:41AM
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Balto
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totally called this
Oct 28 2012 11:45AM
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FUUUCK
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hmmm maybe this means I can get a pair of Kryptos on the cheap.
Oct 28 2012 11:51AM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 11:51AM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 12:02PM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 12:14PM
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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..
Oct 28 2012 12:25PM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 12:40PM
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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).
Oct 28 2012 12:54PM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 1:04PM
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joshua
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Whoa, I had no idea APO wasn't an entirely new company, my mistake.
Oct 28 2012 1:08PM
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GayWolf420
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Doubt you've even ridden their skis. They're real fun.
Oct 28 2012 1:10PM
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cheezeNbacon
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all i want to know is what happened damit
Oct 28 2012 2:23PM
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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.
Oct 28 2012 2:57PM
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polmei
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but they already have all their snowboard basis
Oct 28 2012 3:07PM
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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..
Oct 28 2012 3:49PM
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C.A.V.
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out of business,went bankrupt , there goes my sponsor :(
Oct 28 2012 4:24PM
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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
Oct 28 2012 4:30PM
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Momo.
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Aww man that really sucks, I feel bad for those guys:/
Oct 28 2012 4:36PM
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