The Future of Lange & the New XT3 Ski Boot

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Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Lange’s Global Brand Director, Thor Verdonk, about Lange’s use of 'dual core' technology; why “ski boots should be alive”; the brand-new, 3rd generation, Lange XT3; heat-moldable shells; 3d printed boots; the future of Lange; and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

What is “dual core” technology? (4:30)
Elasticity & ski boot weight (9:27)
Which boots are the hardest to develop? (13:53)
Heat moldable shells (15:53)
Elasticity / “Suspension” (17:30)
Lange XT (1st Gen.) (18:45)
Lange XT Freetour (2nd Gen.) (19:50)
Lange XT3 (New 3rd Gen.) (22:43)
What’s next for Lange? (34:13)
3D printed boots? (38:50)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:11.0	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing
0:15.7	and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:19.9	And right off the bat, I want to say thanks to those of you who answered our call
0:24.4	to take 30 seconds to rate and review Gear 30 in iTunes or Apple Podcasts or whatever we
0:31.0	are calling it these days.
0:33.0	And this actually got me thinking this week that as a way to say thank you to and possibly
0:38.8	incentivize those of you who regularly listen to Gear 30 to take just a few seconds to rate
0:45.0	and review the show.
0:46.6	I was thinking that when we get to 250 ratings, we will go shoot a video of me, Sam Shaheen and Luke Kappa, tele skiing.
0:58.3	We will go get the gear, and then we will go attempt to drop a knee and get down,
1:03.7	and we'll film it all. So now we'll just see how bad you actually want to see me, Sam,
1:09.4	and Luke probably go make fools of ourselves, also
1:12.4	probably injure ourselves. So anyway, thanks in advance for leaving that five-star rating,
1:17.7	and on behalf of Sam and Luke, who I have not actually yet told that I was committing
1:22.8	them to this challenge, we look forward to dropping a knee, letting our freak flags fly, and skiing on
1:29.6	some broken bindings. Okay, last thing. I want to quickly mention that if you aren't already a
1:35.7	blister member, now would be a very, very good time to do so, because we are going to be rolling
1:41.7	out a ton of new flash reviews, where you'll get our initial on-snow impressions of a bunch of brand-new products.
1:50.4	I just posted this week my flash reviews of next seasons,
1:54.6	Lizard Brahma, Bonafide, and Cochies,
1:57.6	and we have a ton of new gear here in Blister HQ,
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