Sarah Burke left Volkl For Roxy

as of last season they had one twin due to the limited time to release skis after the purchase of rossignol and dynastar by quiksilver.

this year they are releasing some top end skis made by dynastar that warrant a sick team. this is where the future for women's skiing is going to be with a women's specific brand.

jess cummings is on the team already and im sure sarah's going to be a great addition!

 
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something like that?

sarah burkes roxy - omg gurl power special edition
 
i ahvent riden tms for like 2 years so i dunno if the tms are noodles are not, however i do know that one of the pro roxy riders was referring to her skis as noddles at queens cup. if the roxy skis are the same as the tms then exactly how is that helping out the progression of womens skis, if all they are is tms with differnt top sheets?
 
what a ski slut. always goin where the money is, no loyalty to any company. if novotny was still running the dynastar team she wouldn't be comin near that shit
 
Well first of all there was only one "pro roxy rider" last year and that was Jess Cumming...who incidently is my girlfriend and who I know for a fact wasn't even at the Queens cup, so I know it wasn't someone that represents Roxy. I know there is a girl that gets some flow in whatever volume that may be and I don't know her personally nor do I even know her name.

Roxy is more than hardware...the girls roxy ski wear is SO hot! Their goggles are so steezy! And yes the skis are essentially TM's, but branded for girls. Roxy is also producing girls specific skis that are softer and smaller....which are better for some smaller girls in collaboration with Dynastar. Dynastar arguably makes the best skis on the planet and Roxy is arguably the best female brand in the world. I don't see anything but great things coming out of this.

Don't you guys buy stuff because you think they look steezy as well as function? Spyder makes puffy jackets...but oakleys are more dope. So does that mean that spyder isn't adding something to the industry? I don't think so.

Let's go a step beyond materialism. I understand that many of you don't and may never truly understand what and why a sport industry exists and strives. It takes a large number of factors that include money and politics in one form or another. Having one extra major company devoting themselves to female skiing does more for you girls than you could imagine. Take the X games as an example. For years and years Sarah and the other girls have been clawing, scratching and begging to get into the xgames half pipe. So now they are in...but they aren't a part of the live finals and don't get more than a minute or two of tv time. Whether Roxy actually ends up contributing dollars to ESPN or not it doesn't matter it is another company for ESPN to cort and attempt to gain a relationship from...and because Roxy supports female skiers so well then ESPN will continue to increase their position on female skiing.

I don't even know if any of this is actually true about Sarah and Roxy as I haven't heard it directly from her. But if it is its only logical. Sarah has pushed for so long to increase the female position in our sport and through Roxy I beleive she finally has a medium to truly break some ground. So progression in our sport, little kiddies, goes beyond building a "better" ski with thicker edges...

 
haha

that actually would be cool to have roxy build a good ski team, but burke was the first really great girl freeskier for volkl in my opinion
 
Whoa, sexist, much? Whatever happened to the argument for self-expression?

Taking the tack of "it broadens your choices" might have been a more convincing argument than "if you don't dress Roxy style you're unfeminine and a follower."

So - let me get this straight - bandwagons are lame, unless YOU happen to be driving?

You kinda undermined yourself back there.
 
You can do and say and dress however you want. My point was in relation to Roxy skis and the bandwagon of negatism towards them in this particular thread and any other thread about Roxy on Newschoolers where girls have been paricipating. The "bandwagon" that is most prevelent is not what you say my argument should have been, "that it broadens choices". What I see most is "oh Roxy's are gay cuz they have polka dots and only wannabes ride them". My point is, if you hate polka dots and you think they are ugly than so be it, but the skis are based around the Dynastar Trouble Makers, which happen to be in my opinion the best skis out there...and I can qualify my opinion as I've had some pretty extensive "testing" with them. It cannot be said that those skis are any worse than any other girls specific ski. In fact, it's easy to argue that they are much better.

It certainly doesn't make me "sexist" because I made a statement that because you are a girl you should act like one. It's not like I'm saying a girl is an inferior human being because they like to wear boys clothing and look like there is poop in their pants. That's fine with me, just like lesbians that dress and act like men, drag queens, and gay men that dress and act feminine are all fine and dandy and they clearly uphold their right to "self expression". Whatever rolls your sushi, but thats WHO those people are. If you dress like a boy off the mountain then it would be normal for you to dress like a boy off the mountain. And that's fine that's you. But I'm not havin it from the rest of the population. I don't see the majority of skier girls dressing like boys when they aren't skiing. In fact, it's quite opposite. A lot of girl skiers dress very feminine. So what changes when you go skiing? Be girl steezy...don't be gorilla steezy. Or just don't be steezy at all, wear a burlap sack if you would and you feel like that helps you pursue your "self expression".

You missed my point anyway, my point is that it's ludicrous to see and hear anything negative about a company and it's athletes that are doing so much good for a critical portion of a micro industry. ESPECIALLY, when that negativity is coming directly from that even tinier group that this company and it's athletes are progressing.
 
You're hearing negativity from female skiers because, as per usual, products geared toward us have 90% to do with aesthetics and 10% (if we are lucky) with function. I'm happy to hear that Roxy is packing more function into next year's line, but frankly I was a bit put off by the troublemaker teens (right?) with a polka dot topsheet.

As a female product designer, marketer, and most importantly, athlete, I have a HUGE problem with most women's sporting goods! But, then again, serious female athletes are rare and it doesn't make sense financially for sporting goods companies to drop tons of R&D dollars into developing performance gear for such a small audience.

Overall, I respect Volkl much more as a company and definitely wouldn't leave them for Roxy. Unless Roxy was putting together an awesome, all girl's freeride team. Then, yeah, that would be pretty sweet.
 
BTW, the skis that you all saw with polka dots were not the normal graffic for the Roxy Wista Pro...This was

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And the Wista pro is not the same as the TM teen...the other Roxy skis that you have seen are for beginners to have something ski with as well. The wista pro is their girls equivilant to a trouble maker.

 
I see what you're saying but i think you're taking this a little too seriously. girls want to "look like a gangster" because it is a scientifically proven fact that baggy clothes make you look like a better skier. flailing limbs are hidden beneath the latest oakley suits and smoother style ensues. but what you're forgetting here is that guys do it too...where do you think this influence comes from? look at what the world's top male skiers and snowboarders are rocking and you'll clearly see the correlation. and who wants to ski like a girl anyways? we are awkward and you can pick us out from a million miles away. that is, unless we are wearing XXXXXXXL clothes!! see? it all makes sense. it's all in the endless search for steez.

now with roxy putting so much money into female skiing, maybe girls will see jess and sarah and whoever else ripping around and looking good (?) and start dressing like them. but until there are leaders, there will be no followers...
 
Whatever. Burke is now on Roxy.

It's obviously a better deal for her, because she's no longer on Volkl. Roxy paid more for her and she's doing what is best for her career. Expect Roxy to continue to sign top-notch female athletes and expect their skis to improve as well.

And if you think I don't know what I'm talking about just wait. I'm sure the press release will be forthcoming soon enough. (Hint: in a Volkl press release, Volkl says, "Park City’s Ashley Battersby, has signed a deal with Tecnica/Volkl/Marker to become the marquee woman rider on the Tecnica/Volkl/Marker International Team.")

What does "marquee woman" mean to you? Doubtful that Battersby, as good as she is, would be the "marquee woman" on any team that also had Burke as an athlete.
 
I've expressed my particular feelings on this before... I don't want to get involved on this heated discussion of bandwagon bullshit...

If one has problems with larger corporations getting involved with skiing and trying to brand us as something we aren't, you've picked the wrong fucking sport to get into. Apparently we can't do it ourselves, and the athletes we all respect and look to for inspiration aren't going to get paid dick ALL if we try to maintain a "core" industry. Idealistically, we could say "support the small companies, fuck everyone else" but well, Sarah Burke is such an icon for not only skiing but women's sports everywhere (one doesn't need to go farther than google to see what kind of impact she's had) that if it's going to take a corporate entity getting involved in order for her to feed herself, I'd rather see that than have her quit skiing and go drive trucks or something. I mean. Roxy getting involved is fucking gross from a "for the sport" perspective, but I think they can get involved tastefully, and let their corporate ridiculousness help us out.

To some that up:

Money = good for people that need it = apparently corporate involvement is the best source ...

I dont know, bottomline is to support who makes you happy.

Talk shit on messageboards about those that don't.
 
It's spelled "pompous". Also, the rest of that sentence would likely give an english teacher fits.

Nice try though. ;)

I just had to comment. The use of poor spelling and grammar to condemn other people's knowledge and intelligence was simply to ironic to resist.

 
lol hes figured out the trail..

but i have DC's pro models and i love them and if dynastar can make skis like that under the roxy name i think it was good move on her part
 
haha... rad. bring on the ns spelling bee, i'm game! your both fighting a loosing battle on this site / in the ski indutsry.
 
All you do is bitch about shit, Are you a pro at any sport? are you the prime example or whats roxys Marketing is going to be? Please shut up all you ever do it bitch. Roxy is a sick company They Sponsor Torah Bright shes has a clause in her contract to say she doesnt want any roxy adds to be printed of her in next to no clothing,. Thanks to roxy her image is brought to millions of girls world wide that you can be hot and still Rip, A hot girl that rips at her sport is soo much better than a model in a photo, Why is it alwasy the ugly chicks that bitch about this kinda stuff? Roxy is a progressive commpany and will help girl skier in so many ways, And finally pay them the amount of $$ they deserve..
 
i beilive it is you who doesn't know what i'm talking about, i meant that they should make their own designs rather than steal dyanstar's, sorry about the misunderstanding
 
Uh....Are you illiterate or unable to comprehend written word? She was praising roxy on their initiative to develop women's product... She didn't hate on the company at all, nor express much distaste for what they've doing... There's no real need to make a post sprung off on a personal attack, mostly unfounded, in order for your opinion of roxy to be read... there are many people that want to hear what you have to say and want your perspective, there's no need to call names.

Sorry. But yeah, If nothing else, at least Roxy is going to be inclined to get more involved with women's skiing, now that they're taking it upon themselves to represent our ambassador for the sport. Maybe there will be skiing equivalents of the roxy chicken jam, their wake and surfing comps and stuff too. I hope this move means they are willing to get involved, not just supply prody in exchange for glossy headshots.
 
^^ I second that thought. I have nothing against Roxy as a company, and if they're willing to get into the sport and support women in the sport, then I'm all for it. Women in skiing don't get nearly as much attention as the guys do. Sure, we make a big deal about it when Kaya Turski throws a cab ten at the NZ open, or when Sarah Burke throws cab corked nines at the Orage Masters, but do they get much attention outside of competitions? I would love to see more sick, female segments in movies. And I mean it. None of this "She's good for a girl," bullshit that goes on all the time. I want to see women who are good regardless of their gender, women who are comparable to guys. That takes encouragement and money, support and knowledge, and if Roxy is willing to put in the time and effort to progress women in skiing, I'm down. With Michelle Parker on their team, they should have some pretty legit ideas flowing in, and I hope they get some progressive things going.
 
and candide isn't a ski slut?

i don't see what the problem is? by moving to roxy, she can do more for them than she could by staying with volkl. to this day, there really hasn't been a real "girls" twin tip. all there have been are slightly softer and lighter versions of guys twins on the market.

so by moving to roxy, sarah can really help draw attention to skis that are more than likely better for girls and in turn bring more girls into skiing which in turn, is better for us guys!

you need to stop hating on people that switch companies! remember, for pro skiers, this is their livelihood; you'd go work for someone that would pay you more money for the same job so why can't pros do it?

 
quiksilver is the most core company out there?

can you tell me what makes a company core? does it mean, instead of entering a market with your own brand name, you buy another company and make money through them? well correct me if im wrong but adidas did the same thing with salomon.

if quiksilver was so "core" they would've remained as a surf company and not evolved into a skate company, snowboard company, goggle company, and now ski company. they are far from this term you call "core"!!

 
Haha wow. That is a bold statement. I'm pretty sure I will never read another one of your posts without an incredible amount of skepticism and disbelief again. Fuck... listen to what you're saying....haha
 
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