J Skis The Whipit "Cats in Space" Limited Edition Skis 2015

J Skis The Whipit "Cats in Space" Limited Edition Skis 2015

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J Skis The Whipit "Cats in Space" Limited Edition Skis 2015 164 cm $520.00

J Skis The Whipit "Cats in Space" Limited Edition Skis 2015

The internet is awesome, and so are J Skis. The J Skis The Whipit "Cats in Space" Limited Edition Skis take one of the greatest internet memes of all time, and puts a bunch of cats and space and laser-eyes on your friggin' skis. Cats aside, the Whipit Skis are rock solid all mountain rippers with a penchant for park stomps and butters. A full sandwich UHMV sidewall construction means you will have unrivaled dampening when tucking into your favorite kicker, and the thickest edges in the industry ensure a super long jib-life. Cats in space and premium quality planks, another marvelous innovation brought to you by J Lev and company.

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Rocker Type:

Rocker / Camber / Rocker: 2 mm x 28 cm length / 2 mm Camber / 2 mm x 28 cm length

Parabolic 4 Radius Rocker: J Skis have designed their Rocker Tips by blending 4 different radii into one smooth parabolic curve from the last point of the camber to the very tip, just like a surfboard. The result is a much, much, much smoother profile tip shape that has no abrupt kinks, flat spots or awkward changes. Your tips will rise up out of the snow with less effort and you’ll lay down carves that utilize much more of your full edge length always feeling intuitive. Parabolic 4 Radius Rocker

Flex:

Flex: 3/5: Medium supportive flex underfoot to stomp landings & hold a solid edge all over the mountain. The symmetric tip and tail flex is rated #3, not too stiff, not too soft. Plenty of support to keep you on your feet yet enough flex for fun butters or big ollies.

Core:

The Whipit Construction

Maple: A very expensive high quality hard wood, thus the reason it’s used to build floors and furniture to last a lifetime. When used as a ski core, it: absorbs impact, has a ton of energy, keeps your binding screws in. And most importantly, maple syrup tastes great. J Skis run 4 x 20 mm wide Maple laminates the entire length of the core. Under your foot the core is comprised of approximately 80% Maple & 20% Aspen, with solid Maple over the edges for unprecedented power & durability. Maple

Aspen: An incredibly lightweight wood that provides plenty of strength when laminated alongside Maple. At the tips of J Skis you’ll see more of the light colored Aspen, 4 x 20 mm wide Aspen laminates covering approximately 70% of the surface area for for dramatically reduced swing weight. Aspen

Laminates:

Pre-Cured Carbon Fiber: Carbon fiber is lighter than fiberglass & has more energy. However, like fiberglass, carbon needs to be fully stretched like a guitar string or bow to give you the most pop. Unfortunately, when you see skis with wavy black carbon, it’s not stretched, thus you’re not getting the energy out of it you’re paying for. J Skis uses pre-cured, pre-stretched carbon fiber laminates. This means the carbon is stretched and epoxied to 9 oz fiberglass at the carbon fiber factory under perfect conditions prior to J Skis receiving it. This pre-cured carbon laminate is twice the cost but also gives you many more times the performance. You’ll feel it! Pre-Cured Carbon Fiber

Quasi Isotropic Fiberglass: Fiberglass works like a guitar string. When it is flexed it wants to flex back, that’s the energy or pop you feel in a ski. However, this energy can only be applied in the direction of the actual fiberglass length. This means the more directions of fiberglass, the more energy, pop & responsiveness. (forward, side to side, torsional, etc.) Industry standard “Triaxial” fiberglass runs in only three directions: 0, 45, -45. J Skis uses a Quasi Isotropic fiberglass configuration, same as the aerospace industry, to maximize energy & strength in as many directions as possible. J Skis fiber runs on 4 different axes: 0, 90, +45, -45, again more cost, but worth the performance.

Rubber Dampening: Think of a ski like a phone book, every page = layer of material in the ski. Then bend your phone book and you’ll see every page slide against each other: this is “shear”. This shear force tries to separate and thus delaminate all the layers in your ski every time it’s flexed. J Skis won't build a ski without running a layer of thin rubber around the full perimeter of the ski over the entire edge, plus the full width of the tip and tail. The rubber acts as an insulator so that the edge and other materials can slide against each other when flexing without delaminating to dramatically improve durability. Rubber Dampening

Sidewalls:

Full Height Sidewalls: J Skis uses good ol’ durable, fast, impact absorbing Ultra High Molecular Weight base material for sidewalls. For the same reason it's used on your ski's bases, UHMW is great at absorbing vibrations & resisting impact. Take a metal pipe and hit it against a rock, then do the same with a piece of plastic. The metal vibrates through to your bones & the plastic absorbs the vibration for you. That’s the difference with having plastic shock absorbing sidewalls over your edges. J Skis cuts the sidewalls to a 10° angle, with a nice step at the bottom for a nice long tuning life. Full Height Sidewalls

Base:

Thickest Base: J Skis always matches base & edge. J Skis uses the thickest base in the industry, 1.8 mm. It’s a sintered Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, super hard and super fast.

Edges:

Thickest Edge: J Skis officially uses the thickest edges in the industry; 2.5 mm x 2.5 mm. More metal = more durable. Whether you’re accidentally hitting a rock or purposely sliding a rail, your edges will live a much longer life. You’ll also be able to re-tune many more times or file them round to slide rails longer.

Graphics:

Cats, In Freakin' Space Limited Edition: 100 Pair Limited Edition, hand signed and numbered by Jason Levinthal.

HD Graphic Digital Printing: Ski & Snowboard companies use the traditional, age old process of silk screening which is very labor intensive, requires high volumes & has a very low resolution image quality, you've seen the dots! J Skis uses a state of the art Fuji UV Flat bed printer, a machine that enables printing any image in photo real high resolution from a computer directly to the plastic top & base like you would at home on your inkjet printer. The resolution is unbelievable photo real and allows for on-the-fly printing as many or as few quantities wanted, with no additional costs. The result...you're one of few in the world with skis looking as good as these on your feet.