Yeah, That was poorly phrased. Obviously well know that it is the same molds, shapes, and presses. I guess the point I wanted to add that seemed to get washed out by my poor English skills was that I highly suspect the skis are going to be clones of each other. I could be proven wrong if the skis show up and obviously flex different, but if it does happen, I will be surprised. And here is why....
They are releasing the skis that are the exact shape of skis that has been being made for several years now by dynastar. There is no question that this company has a lot of money behind them (I actually know who the investor is....but don't think that info is supposed to be out). Lots of money. You can tell by the team they are assembling.
They have come out and said they will make their own ski shapes next year. And while ski construction generally stays similar, the flex characteristics are going to come out different on different skis. So it just seems really strange for me to believe that this new company, with all this money and who obviously is concerned with making money (getting to that in a second), is going to spend time prototyping and making different skis that they will (if they stay truthful to their claim of actually doing their own skis) drop next season.
I don't see the point from a business perspective for them to really do anything by swap the graphics out on these skis because they know kids are going to buy them anyway, regardless of knowing they are basically the same skis you could have gotten from dynastar a few years ago.
Why change something they know works now when they are going to drop it in less than a year anyway?
And that is what makes it seem like to me this company is really jumping the gun to make money. I know all the companies in the industry have a desire to be financially successful, but this is a company that had the money to put a great team together and definitely had the money to wait a year until they could put out their own skis, not some dynastar knock off, but what are they doing?
Right out of the gate trying to get cash coming in on a ski that you could find for significantly less from the company who originally designed the ski, even from a few years ago.
It makes me wonder what sort of deal they have going on with dynastar, because it seems strange that dynastar would just let another company use their exact same shapes and molds to sell a product like this. Basically, what does dynastar get out of it? Must be enough to be financially worth letting this other company basically copy a product, even IF the flex and construction is different.
So to me, coreUPT just sort of seems like they took the easy route and are focused much more on the image of being the most badass company ever (they do have a DAMN good team) instead of being a company who is actually making skis that are unique and that people want (I know people do like the dynastar shapes....but again, these shapes have been available for years).
Hell, even the companies that design their own skis and ship them off to get made in china have done more it seems than CoreUPT has at establishing themself as a legitmate SKI company, not just a marketing machine.
So yeah, I will get off my soapbox and that is all I will probably say on the matter.
. i just feel, from what coreupt has done thus far, they are not exactly concerned with getting great skis out to people just yet. unless the trouble maker is the best ski ever.
