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Windlip Snowboards
France

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Manufacturer Comments:		"The heart and soul of snowboarding lies deep in the mountains. At Windlip we transform the inspiration gained from riding our local peaks into tangible ideas and innovative designs. We create boards for big lines, steep couloirs and fresh powder days. Boards with blistering performance that carve hard on the pack and are equally at home in tight trees. We are a brand new company based in the French Alps. We have a complete order system on the web for full custom boards. It covers just about every angle of how to order your own signature model. We also build one production board in three lengths called the Jay class Our normal production run is about 50 of each length and 50 custom models, 200 in all. Our boards are not the cheapest because we strive to use the latest materials and all boards are hand made. No factory turning out thousands of models here! "

Ski Types:		Snowboards
		Pre-fabricated, semi-custom or full-custom boards. First web-based interface we have seen for custom-built board specifications for flex, shape, core, sandwich or cap design, materials, dampening, inserts, and uploaded graphics. Truly a customized board. Great idea.

WoodenSkis.com
USA

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Manufacturer Comments:		"Dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of cross-country skiing with wooden skis"

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		The most excellent wooden nordic ski site we have found. Greg Fangel has collected a listing of 35+ manufacturers of wooden nordic skis of various types from various countries. Books, posters, maintenance supplies, construction tips, history, events, Ebay tips, skis for sale...Superb stuff. Collect them all !

Woox
Czech Rebublic

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Ski Types:		All Mountain, Snowboards
		Multi-sport company with a line of skis and snowboards. The skis may be manufactured by Sporten since the dimensions are nearly identical to those published by Sporten 's own brand of skis. "Wooxracer" models available in sandwich (152, 161, 168cm) or cap (108, 118, 138cm) woodcore construction. Retail approximately $320 (at Jan, 2010 exchange rate).

ZAG Skis
France

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Manufacturer Comments:		"The philosophy of ZAG skis is to offer a ski that is at the same time advanced, fun, and easy to use on any part of the mountain. The Zag ski is something of a ski/snowboard hybrid. It is primarily intended to make off-piste skiing in deep and heavy snow easy and thus accessible for all standards of skier, yet without losing high-end performance. At the same time, its unique shape and flex pattern result in a ski that will perform like a conventional carving ski on hard and even icy snow. Zag’s small working team will continue to develop skis, to concentrate on quality and performance to able to offer true all-mountain skis for a large range of skiing abilities."

Ski Types:		All Mountain, Carving, Freeride, Freestyle, Park-Pipe, Powder
		Shaped by Stephane Zag Radiguet snowboarder, skier and designer for snowboards and skis for 20 years A real different feeling and construction for freeskiing and powder skis. Based in Bourg St Maurice-Les Arcs-Savoie France. Patented designs with slightly snowboard-esqe shapes of elongated shovels and tails. Cool.

Zai Skis
Switzerland

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Manufacturer Comments:		"Zai, the tougher ski. A titan going his own way, not willing to compromise, not willing to die."

Ski Types:		All Mountain, Carving, Intermediate, Novice
		"By Simon Jacomet, a very well-known carving-pioneer from Disentis, Switzerland. Definite luxury brand with prices upward of $2,400usd? Zen-focused promotion and image. The Spada model has a new core from TechnoCarbon of Munich with "Grisons granite" (yes, granite in the core) enclosed in carbon fibre.

Zion Snowboards
Canada

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		Hand-crafted freestyle and all-mountain boards with great size selection, fresh graphics. Cool t-shirts and hoodies. Newsletter signup available.

Zuizide (Suicide) Skis
Swiss Company - German Manufacture

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Manufacturer Comments:		"The skis are also perfect for telemark and touring. 3th place of the Italian telemark championship. Priced around €500" [june 2008]

Ski Types:		Freeride, Freestyle
		A brand of Zweydingers aimed at the young freeride/freestyle market. Originally created in 2006-2007 (+-) as a brand used to test some prototypes in partnership with Swiss distributor Schuetz-Sports. Too much soap-opera story to go into, but Zweydinger and Schuetz-Sports parted ways (the folks at Schuetz-Sports are reported to now sell the their own skis produced by www.g-vision.eu) and Zweydinger has rejuvenated the Zuizide brand for 2008-2009 with new models and designs. The "darkness-and-weapons-named" line of freestyle skis from the Zweydingers family of products. Poplar woodcore & fiberglass sandwich with ABS sidewall construction. Available with Head bindings. Website was somewhat incomplete as of March 2008. 4 models of skis on the 2008 website: - "Blood" 166cm (119-86-111) - "Uzi" 172cm (119-86-111) - "Grenade" 180cm (120-86-111) - "Swiss Resistance" 180cm (120-86-111) Estimated price €500 ?? Zuizide Germany Arthur-Soltau-Weg 16 22889 Tangstedt Germany Tel: +49(0)40 - 65 797 557

Zweydingers Skis
Germany

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Manufacturer Comments:		"Artist and designer August Zweydinger, born in 1876, was the great grandfather of our company's founder; our company was named after him. As a pioneer in the golden age of skiing and the glamorous flair of the rising ski resorts, his name became synonymous with an ageless style. We would like to dedicate this to those daredevils and heroes revered as adventurers by society at large. In memory of this great epoch, our design team on behalf of August Zweydinger have developed this homage to those brave pioneers in what has become the popular sport it is today. Zweydinger skis are technologically fully developed products made in Germany and Austria with handcrafted precision and experience. The elegant design lends them a particular aura conjuring the emotion and sensation of that time. Our skis combine the traditional style of fine wood with the latest in technology."

Ski Types:		All Mountain, Carving, Freeride, Ski Cross
		For 2008-2009, the Zweydinger ski company has changed to real-wood topsheets treated with oil and wax. You can "refinish" the topsheets with oil and fine sandpaper for a "showroom new" look. They also are the only company we have seen to offer wooden tarsias of personal initials, logo or signatures into the topsheet (real wood into real wood)! Nice lineup of various all-mountain, skier-cross and carving models. Zweydinger designs and specs look like they are custom-finished SnowRider (VR ski?) models. Nice "retro" theme and designs available. Very popular brand in Germany's fashionable retro-graphics crowd. Ash cores, titanal and fiberglass upper and lower layers, rubber-damped edges. Handmade in small batches. Zweydingers also produces the www.zuizide.com brand of skis for the younger freeride/freestyle markets.

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