BallClapper
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Ferdi on jet?
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Evancantspin
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steezytangerine
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hopefully this is gonna be a thing. No hate on ferdi but I always though it was kinda wack for him to talk so much about ski industry big companies and all that jazz and still ride for k2. Ferdi is now full core mode
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KungKalmar
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Honestly it would be mistake for him. Jet probably doesn't have proper funds to support him like some other companies do.
Vish-shoe
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14606311:JalmarKalmar said:
They probably sell a good amount of skis and spend near zero on marketing. They don’t do warranties and no real cost in product development. I don’t see any reason that they wouldn’t be able to pay a few riders as well or better than larger brands.
hi_vis360
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14606314:Vish-shoe said:
Dude I bet k2 sells 100x more park skis than jet, no exaggeration. Their skis are also for sure way cheaper to produce. Would love to see ferdi on jet but there is absolutely no way they can cut a check the same size as k2 UNLESS they have some source of outside funding, which wouldn’t be that surprising. Maybe they are offering ferdi equity in the company? Either way, saving money on instagram ads doesn’t mean that jet has the same cash flow as k2, I doubt it’s even close
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14606259:Slowbro said:
I heard from a decently reliable source that he's just fully on jet
SuperSexySkier69
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i heard hes gonna stick with jet 4 a while
steez_apprentice
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14606327:corona said:
Jetskis.xyz but there’s really not much on the ski and I’ve never seen a review of them since they’re supposed to stay underground. I’ve talked to a good number of their riders and only heard great things though.
steez_apprentice
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14606330:corona said:
Ive been trying to get myself a pair of jets because they typically make a unique ski every “generation” or gen each year, and some gens are more sought out than others. although the last 2 years they’ve stuck with one relatively stiff ski and one soft ski. Plus they put out sick street/park cuts across a few YouTube channels
BallClapper
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Og da nollie was lit af. Cool to see that it’s being kept around. Topsheets were amazing.
14606344:Slowbro said:
Farmville420
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14606344:Slowbro said:
Probably gonna be in the jetskis movie in 2025, which jokes aside if they do release a movie in 2025 and it bangs as hard as it could, I think the entire perception of jet is gonna change amongst the casuals
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14606361:Farmville420 said:
multi year project of course it's gonna bang
Slowbro
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14606330:corona said:
My guess is that it's owned by icelantic but they let the riders make the marketing material / manage the team. And they seem to sell out every run so I don't think they're going to cut the program. I doubt the jetskis team is getting paid a whole lot haha.
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14606330:corona said:
Jet's entire operating costs are probably based purely on the manufacturing costs to make their skis, as long as people buy the skis I can't see anything negative happening to them. Doesn't seem like Sanch&Co are interested in running a legit, wide-scale ski business.
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14606387:Woody. said:
I don’t know anything I’m just speculating. It just seems strange that they’re producing the same ski as an old icelantic in the same factory but aren’t owned (even partially) by them. Although I guess if they were run by Icelantic they’d probably at least give people shipping numbers lmao
reminds me of Valo in rollerblading, a “rider owned” brand that used a mold owned by Roces. Turned out they were in fact largely owned by Roces and the rider owned thing was for marketing.
Jems
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14606393:Slowbro said:
First generation jets were essentially direct copies of Icelantic DaNollies, I believe they bought the old press or something but I'm not really sure. Second gens were a different shape, less rocker, and I believe a little stiffer. Third gens introduced the wides which idk anything specific about them.
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14606390:Jems said:
My assumption is that they operate kinda like Magma, all these mini parts they've been dropping are just leftovers from what will be a generational banger.
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14606377:Slowbro said:
where did you get this idea from lol
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14606405:Christian_Bale said:
I’m really just yapping. Seemed weird to me that they were making an old Icelantic model in the same factory that’s all. There are several rollerblade brands with the same business model (ie owned by parent company but partially owned / ran by athletes)
**This post was edited on Apr 18th 2024 at 1:40:48pm
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14606409:mott said:
He has been riding poachers with topsheet painted black for the whole season except now
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14606330:corona said:
I think shit is going to change when the movie drops in 2025. They have been lurking underground for a few years now, building hype around the brand but probably operating at a loss. Then they will drop a legendary movie and expand production at the same time, maybe with outside investment money of some sort. I think that would be a smart move, a lot of these rider owned brands are often greeted with skepticism by the community and I think a lot of them fuck it up by coming on too strong in a way. Look at 1000 skis, I honestly can’t think of many brands that get ripped on harder than they do, and I think it has a lot to do with the way they came into the scene. Their marketing is pretty over the top and obnoxious, flooding social media with content that immediately alienated their target buyer. Vishnu played it way more low key and based their marketing around street skiing content, which is similar to what jet is doing now, and now there are Vs everywhere. The original Vishnu website was almost as mysterious as jetskis, nobody even knew where they were made or what the turn radius was (still unknown?). Lotta speculation here but I’m very interested to see where this brand goes after the movie drops and signing a big name skier like ferdi would also be a game changer.
14606473:ethannn said:
I think this is a good theory, maybe ferdi will be part owner or something
ColoradoDogfart
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Heard from a reliable source that Ferdi saw PC local [tag=264602]@keagan.karstens[/tag] had switched from riding K2's to jets and hopped on the bandwagon and made the switch as well
BallClapper
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14606259:Slowbro said:
Thats a good point. He could just be trying other stuff. He was on al dentes.
BallClapper
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14606536:ecsm. said:
Jet has a 190????
*Edit. The seraph 100. Did research.
**This post was edited on Apr 18th 2024 at 11:19:32pm
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As a huge fan of Ferdi and his skiing I have also noticed this and wondered when there would be a thread.
Here are some of the observations i made throughout the season:
- Ferdi riding K2 Pochers with black topsheets (painted?) I thought he might test some K2 protos and could maybe even get a promodel from them (there were rumors in the Gear Hype Thread but they turned out to be about Karls promodel)
-Ferdi gets hooked up from Quan with those two old different Al Dentes (probably 188s) as Al Dentes dont come in 188 anymore
-rumors about Ferdi on Armada after Ferdi posts a pipe clip on some Strangers
-Jetskis release a new gen of skis out of nowhere as they always do. With some carbon looking topsheets. Dylan Manley mocks the topsheets in a story post with a doodle dick drawn on some cardboard which looks like the Jetski topsheets which says „Jets“ in it.
-Ferdi posts a screenshot of a call between him and @jetskis.xyz on his story
-Ferdi appears on Jets shortly after this. First in the teaser to the sugar bowl stop of Jib League and now in all the Jibleague videos.
Those are my observations in chronological order. I had the idea that Ferdi might want to start to get some Capeesh x Jetski collabo going.
I‘m not a huge fan of Jetskis to be honest. I always get some „to cool for everybody else“ vibes from their riders, videos and forced „underground marketing“ and „cool playing“.
Zootspace was groundbreaking though and I am hyped about the movie they might put out.
Hope they focus on skiing and have not only smashed couch tables for the last 2 years.
If Ferdi is now on Jet the movie will have Joel Magnusson, Lauri and Ferdi which would be way to crazy!
**This post was edited on Apr 19th 2024 at 4:14:23am
Here are some of the observations i made throughout the season:
- Ferdi riding K2 Pochers with black topsheets (painted?) I thought he might test some K2 protos and could maybe even get a promodel from them (there were rumors in the Gear Hype Thread but they turned out to be about Karls promodel)
-Ferdi gets hooked up from Quan with those two old different Al Dentes (probably 188s) as Al Dentes dont come in 188 anymore
-rumors about Ferdi on Armada after Ferdi posts a pipe clip on some Strangers
-Jetskis release a new gen of skis out of nowhere as they always do. With some carbon looking topsheets. Dylan Manley mocks the topsheets in a story post with a doodle dick drawn on some cardboard which looks like the Jetski topsheets which says „Jets“ in it.
-Ferdi posts a screenshot of a call between him and @jetskis.xyz on his story
-Ferdi appears on Jets shortly after this. First in the teaser to the sugar bowl stop of Jib League and now in all the Jibleague videos.
Those are my observations in chronological order. I had the idea that Ferdi might want to start to get some Capeesh x Jetski collabo going.
I‘m not a huge fan of Jetskis to be honest. I always get some „to cool for everybody else“ vibes from their riders, videos and forced „underground marketing“ and „cool playing“.
Zootspace was groundbreaking though and I am hyped about the movie they might put out.
Hope they focus on skiing and have not only smashed couch tables for the last 2 years.
If Ferdi is now on Jet the movie will have Joel Magnusson, Lauri and Ferdi which would be way to crazy!
**This post was edited on Apr 19th 2024 at 4:14:23am
steez_apprentice
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14606566:S.Ki said:
cant forget Charlie Gnoza too, pretty sure he’s the only one of only ones besides Joel tossing dubs and triples on jets
