November 17, 2008
Starting Christmas day, 15 million households nationwide will be able to tap into a television channel entirely dedicated to skiing (and other mountain sports): The Ski Channel, created by Steve Bellamy, the founder of the Tennis Channel. “If we close all the ad deals on the table, we will hit our first year’s number before we launch,” Bellamy says. “We have added a ton of incredible programming.” That “incredible programming” will include movies from Warren Miller Entertainment, Rage Films, Level 1 Productions, and will have the broadcast rights to New Zealand’s World Heli Challenge, taking place next year, and the U.S. and World Freeskiing tours. Sounds pretty good to us. The only time we’ll definitely be switching the channel? When the Ski Channel airs the US Snowshoe Racing tour.
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November 17, 2008
Aah, reverse camber skis. We remember when the Spatula was as revolutionary as it got. Nowadays, practically every ski manufacturer makes a fat powder ski with rockered tips and tails: The Black Diamond Megawatt, the Salomon Rocker, the K2 Pontoon, and more. One of our favorites is Rossignol’s S7 Caballero, which has a handcrafted top sheet by artist Steve Caballero that represents the sin of gluttony. It’s a twin tip with reverse camber at the tip and tail and 115-millimeters in the waist. Freeskier Sage Cattabriga-Alosa helped design it. Rossignol recently announced they’d be making a telemark model of this ski—the Max Mancini Pro Model called The System S7. Granted, it’s the exact same ski as the alpine version, but Max designed a cool new topsheet with artist Dustin Handley (see image above). They’re making a special edition run of 50 skis coming out this December with a full line debuting fall 2009. Royalites from the ski will be donated to the Children’s Hospital of Denver. “It has always been a goal of mine to have a pro model ski, but this one is particularly exciting because it is going to be benefiting such a great cause,” Max says. Not bad for a ski that represents gluttony.
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Starting Christmas day, 15 million households nationwide will be able to tap into a television channel entirely dedicated to skiing (and other mountain sports): The Ski Channel, created by Steve Bellamy, the founder of the Tennis Channel. “If we close all the ad deals on the table, we will hit our first year’s number before we launch,” Bellamy says. “We have added a ton of incredible programming.” That “incredible programming” will include movies from Warren Miller Entertainment, Rage Films, Level 1 Productions, and will have the broadcast rights to New Zealand’s World Heli Challenge, taking place next year, and the U.S. and World Freeskiing tours. Sounds pretty good to us. The only time we’ll definitely be switching the channel? When the Ski Channel airs the US Snowshoe Racing tour.
