The Friend "PILLOWS" Adam Haynes

Adam Haynes x White Ski graphic collaboration

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Artist Adam Haynes is known for his legendary paintings of surreal fantasy winter dreamscapes that every skier
or snowboarder dreams of riding. He's created art for some of the most respected brands in action sports, yet
never in skiing. I’ve always wanted to collaborate with Adam on a ski graphic and this time around the stars
aligned at just the right time for my best powder ski to date.

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THE FRIEND™ FEATURES

WHEN IT COMES TO SKI DESIGN there are plenty that perform great in the powder, yet very few, that 
are equally fun to ride when the powder's gone. I designed The Friend™ to be truly the best of both worlds.
Float, slash, surf, butter in the deep stuff until it gets tracked out, then mach hip dragging carves top to bottom
like you just came back from winning the Olympic Slalom. But don't take our word for it, read the reviews from 
others that have skied it! #FRIENDSONAPOWDAY

Giray Dadali riding "The Friend" at Snowbird last spring

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LEARN ABOUT THE SKI SHAPE

"The Friend" ski shape I used my legendary tried-and-true, award winning all-mountain multi radius sidecut
geometry, normally only found on narrower all-mtn skis, for intuitive, ultra responsive multi-size turns at any
speed. To maximize float without sacrificing grip, I used a 4 radius rocker shape that floats effortlessly yet
maintains a low profile for maximum edge control & reduced tip vibration.

LEARN ABOUT THE SKI CONSTRUCTION

"The Friend" ski construction, I spared no expense using absolutely the highest performing materials possible.
The Maple wood core combined with the full height UHMW sidewalls provide the most durable & powerful
construction in the industry. The 4 directions of fiberglass enables responsive energy in every direction with
Carbon fiber running tip to tail for increased energy & pop as well as reduced weight. The extra thick hardened
steel edge & high-speed ultra hard sintered base is the thickest thus most durable you can get, enabling
multiple years of re-tunes for a long life.

Flex Pattern

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 & big ollies.

 

PARABOLIC 4 RADIUS ROCKER

Rocker is traditionally referenced as the area of the ski between last point of camber in contact with the snow until the traditional starting point of the tip. Unlike most rocker geometries, we’re no longer thinking of them as separate entities. Instead we’re actually blending the rocker & tip shapes into one-and-the same.  

We’ve designed our Rocker Tips by blending 4 different radii into one smooth parabolic curve from the last point 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.

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.

We use pre-cured, pre-stretched carbon fiber laminates. This means the carbon is stretched and epoxied to 9oz fiberglass at the carbon fiber factory under perfect conditions prior to us receiving it. This pre-cured carbon laminate is twice the cost but also gives you many more times the performance. You’ll feel it! 

• Maple & Aspen Core

  Maple eh! the factory is in Quebec, I live in Vermont. We got maple!
  MAPLE is 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.

  We run 4 – 20mm 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 unpresidented power & durability.

  ASPEN is incredibly lightweight and provides plenty of strength when laminated alongside Maple. At the tips of my skis you’ll see more of the light colored Aspen, 4 – 20mm wide Aspen laminates covering approximately 70% of the surface area for for dramatically reduced swing weight.

• Full Height Sidewalls

  We’re using good ol’ durable, fast, impact absorbing Ultra High Molecular Weight base material for our 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 of having plastic shock absorbing sidewalls over your edges. We’re cutting the sidewalls to a 10* angle, with a nice step at the bottom for a nice long tuning life.

• Thickest Edge

  We are officially using the thickest edges in the industry 2.5mm x 2.5mm. More metal = more durable. Whether you’re accidentally hitting a rock or purposely sliding a rail, you’re 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.

• Thickest Base

  I don’t match my clothes but I always match my base & edge. We use the thickest base in the industry 1.8mm. It’s a sintered Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, basically it’s super hard & fast, just like your _______ likes.

• Rubber Dampening

  Think of a ski like a phone book, every page = layer of material in the ski. Then bend your phonebook you’ll see every page slide against each other, this is “shear”. This shear force trys to separate, thus delaminate all the layers in your ski every time it’s flexed. 

  I 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.

• 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, torsionally, etc.)

  Industry standard “Triaxial” fiberglass runs in only three directions: 0, 45, -45. We use a Quasi Isotropic fiberglass configuration, same as the aerospace industry to maximize energy & strength in as many directions as possible. Our fiber is running on 4 different axis 0, 90, +45, -45, again more cost, but worth the performance.

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  High Definition Digitally Printed Graphics

• You already know I put a lot of value in graphics! 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!

  We're using a state of the art, Fuji UV Flat bed printer, a $170,000 machine that enables me to print any image in photo real high resolution from my computer directly to the plastic top & base like you would at home on your inkjet printer. The resolution is unbelievable photo real and we can print on-on-the-fly as many or as few quantities as we want, with no additional costs. The result . . . you're one of few in the world with skis looking as good as these on your feet.

  I personally guarantee these are the best skis & you'll love them. If for any reason within your first 3 days on the hill you don't love them, you can literally send them back, & I'll refund your total product & shipping costs, no questions asked! If you don't like em', send them back & we'll ride them! 

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Big Thanks to these skiers who helped fund the
creation of "THE FRIEND" on Kickstarter

1 Jed Batchelder
2 Neil Sotirakopoulos
3 Brian Megliola
4 Travis Abair
5 Naoyuki Inaba
6 Jason Boone
7 Ally Stacy
8 JP Simard
9 Johnny
10 Stefan Neagu Sadoveanu
11 Josh Malczyk
12 Jeremy Sanford
13 Gabe Paras
14 Lorenzo Lionello
15 Dean Glass
16 Thomas Murphy
17 Jo Anne Nick
18 Iannick B.
19 Jason Wilke
20 Cyrus Schenck
21 Carl Rominger
22 Matthew Paris
23 Michael W Clark
24 Scott Small
25 Miles Fulton
26 galbani
27 Andre Guerrette
28 Dave Johnson
29 Eric Koerner
30 Alex
31 Brian Freeman
32 John Gentle
33 Barbara McMahon
34 Michael Casey
35 Gabe Dunn
36 Jake Loeffler
37 Kevin Lindner
38 JF Bouchard
39 Benjamin Hammond
40 Laura Mallard Seldomridge
42 Andy Parsley
43 Gregor Fiala
44 Zach Edge
45 Lloyd Sheiner
46 Bruce Barnum
47 Matt Rittmann
48 Stephen Robertson
49 Wade Thompson
50 Mike McCormack
52 Kevin
53 Robb LaBossiere
54 jonathan
55 Thomas Lundbaek
56 Noah Prime
57 Owen Batt
58 Kris Tootle
59 Lenny goldwasser
60 Andrew DiLiberto
61 Greg
63 Ryan Brickman
64 Chris Moran
65 Mark Baker
66 Charlie
67 Dennis gibbons
68 Pietrantoni
69 nick bristow
70 Rob Haley
71 Ross Mueller
72 Anders Åhlén
73 Ryan Prichard
74 Laura Howard
75 Michelle Judson
76 Ty Walker
77 Andy Chronister
78 Gavin Fritz
79 Gian Reto Theus
80 Roger Montgomery
81 Nick Jakub Nowosielski
82 Pat B
83 Tim
84 Gallagher Brothers
85 PT Parker
86 Leo Ravina
88 Matt Guffey
89 Marc Wolfe
90 Ian Grimes
91 Arnaud Boisvert
92 Sam
93 Zeb Yaklich
94 Danielle Cote
95 Griffin McElwee
96 Evan Clarke
97 Danielle Levine
98 Warren Ouellette
99 Blaine Douglas
100 Richard Max
101 Joshua Fischer
102 Trevor Gowman
103 Tyler Betcher
104 Lionel Piraux
105 Johann Sigurdson
106 doug levinthal
107 Robert Sanford
108 Scott Andrus
109 Tyler
110 Chris Koeninger
111 Gary Patton
112 Jim Bollback
113 rkrukar
114 Kevin Livingston
115 Dots Sherwood
116 Daniel McLean
117 Brandon Stratton
118 jay radochia
119 John Maxwell Bryan Hampton
120 Jeff Schneider
121 Grzegorz Bartler
122 Andrew Sylora

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