The Death of Dynastar
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cobra_commander
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Dynastar/Rossignol group got sold a couple years ago, new owners are not a big fan of spending a fat chunk of change on a team of premadonnas (which 95% of pro skiers are). If you look at the history of Dynastar's team they invested a lot of money in skiers who then got hurt, jumped ship to another company, or just stopped skiing, makes it hard to justify a team. Dynastar's new owners have shifted the focus of the company, and the result is that sales are up. Selling LPs and XXLs is a lot harder then selling sultan 85s and 94s. Also I can ski the legend 115 almost as hard as my XXLs in powder, and the big boy sized 105 is not a pussy ski by any means.
When Crichton, Deschenaux, Thovex were there with the 3 Phils (and Woods/Reedy) that team was unstoppable. Style was the focus and it's lived on through all the groms. They were as big for pushing the sport as the Canadian Air Force was in the beginning. Whether Dynastar is focusing more on racing or whatever else, there is no denying they have stopped moving the sport forward on their end.... too bad, used to love their skis in the pipe
Hughes
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Europe is definitely the 'stomping ground' of dynastar. their skis are everywhere in all the french resorts, especially the legends. There freeride team still has Aurelien Ducroz (won the freeride world tour chamonix comp). I think what many people don't realise is they clearly make a lot of money out of their slalom skis, which is how they can keep producing freestyle and freeride skis.
just my opinion
just my opinion
Honestly, Dynastar makes better skis than 90% of the market. If ya'll pulled your heads out of your asses and learned to actually ski, you'd realize that.
Why waste time marketing to a bunch of douchebags that wouldn't know a well made ski If I hit them in face with it?
Why waste time marketing to a bunch of douchebags that wouldn't know a well made ski If I hit them in face with it?
Justo8484
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you realize the 6th sense superpipe is essentially the same ski as the OG troublemaker, right? ok, good. if it's not broken, don't fix it. it skis, awesome, and is pretty durable, comparatively. the 6th sense huge rips when there's deep snow, and i've heard nothing but awesome things about the slicers. just because you don't think their graphics are the hottest thing out right now does not mean their skis, or the company, sucks. also, the lange rx130 pro, their top of the line freeride boot, was sold out before they even hit shops this year, and last i checked, look falls under the dynastar brand as well, so if they go out of business, i guess we can say goodbye to what is hands down the best park binding on the market right now.
john.stossel
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the old troublemakers are now the sixth sense superpipe, which are still the best skis of all time... so dynastar is not dead as long as they keep churning out those bad boys. VANULAR was by far their biggest loss along with rainville and chricton, but skiing has fucking died in my opinion so who really cares.
Yung_Gnarley
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Trouble makers are the best carving park ski ever.
john.stossel
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sucks, but seeing as dynastar makes the best ski of all time (troublemakers) (now called sixth sense superpipe) dynastar cannot possibly fail. unless we have an entire generation of idiots who think suspects are the best
john.stossel
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sucks, but seeing as dynastar makes the best ski of all time (troublemakers) (now called sixth sense superpipe) dynastar cannot possibly fail. unless we have an entire generation of idiots who think suspects are the best
john.stossel
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dammit what tf am i doing..
seward
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they'll be back.
every company goes hot then cold, then hot again, then cold again.
dynastar made the troublemaker and boom, every pro was on them. watch ready fire aim, seriously everyother pro was on TM's. and they havnt made a ski that good since.
even before that everyone was on scratches, then they all left to form armada.
and even before that, everyone rode for salomon.
fahk when the suspects came out everyone was allllllll over salomon's wiener, and now all i hear in forums is how bad the suspects are. its crazy how nearly this whole site can sway so quickly because of what they think is cool or uncool. *cough* first drop. im just waiting for the day when a pro rips on jibberish and this whole site jumps off that wallnutz bandwagon so i can thank god i never spent $200 on a hoodie because someone else told me it was cool.
anyways
i dont understand how you can compare a team from almost 10 years ago to a team now. obviously their pro riders list wont be as long, there was less companies back them. thats how companies like dynastar and rossi had just powerhouse teams. now you have all these smaller "core" companies snagging up alot of people. i dont think dynastar let their team walk away, or are focusing their attention else where, i just think there is alot more places for people to go in todays industry.
i dunno, just my opinion.
every company goes hot then cold, then hot again, then cold again.
dynastar made the troublemaker and boom, every pro was on them. watch ready fire aim, seriously everyother pro was on TM's. and they havnt made a ski that good since.
even before that everyone was on scratches, then they all left to form armada.
and even before that, everyone rode for salomon.
fahk when the suspects came out everyone was allllllll over salomon's wiener, and now all i hear in forums is how bad the suspects are. its crazy how nearly this whole site can sway so quickly because of what they think is cool or uncool. *cough* first drop. im just waiting for the day when a pro rips on jibberish and this whole site jumps off that wallnutz bandwagon so i can thank god i never spent $200 on a hoodie because someone else told me it was cool.
anyways
i dont understand how you can compare a team from almost 10 years ago to a team now. obviously their pro riders list wont be as long, there was less companies back them. thats how companies like dynastar and rossi had just powerhouse teams. now you have all these smaller "core" companies snagging up alot of people. i dont think dynastar let their team walk away, or are focusing their attention else where, i just think there is alot more places for people to go in todays industry.
i dunno, just my opinion.
Pipe_Munky
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Dynastar is still making a killer twin line. I still love my 6th Sense Spins. Sure they don't have the graphics that kids want and don't have the pro team. Not a huge deal. They're killing it with their all mountain skis and their freeride line with the Legend series has very little competition in the market.
I don't think I even need to get into Lange boots.
I don't think I even need to get into Lange boots.
cobra_commander
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I do...
I got into some boots that were not Lange's, and I wanted back into my Langes.
I got into some boots that were not Lange's, and I wanted back into my Langes.
bikerocker
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I think a lot of you guys are missing the point. Dynastar is literally in the same building and really the same company as rossignol. In order to fight overlap between the two brands Rossignol is focusing on more of the freeski scene, while dynastar is being developed into a more mature and traditional brand. Rossignol doesn't need to promote two different sets of athletes that do the same thing.
Sure it might be a shift of an iconic brand, but when it comes down to putting money in the bank it's just too expensive and unproductive to have two complete lines of competing products.
Look at the whole Trek/ Gary Fisher merge that happened in the bike world a while ago. It just didn't make sense to compete internally and Rossi/ Dynastar knows that as well.
Sure it might be a shift of an iconic brand, but when it comes down to putting money in the bank it's just too expensive and unproductive to have two complete lines of competing products.
Look at the whole Trek/ Gary Fisher merge that happened in the bike world a while ago. It just didn't make sense to compete internally and Rossi/ Dynastar knows that as well.
