J Skis

The Friend "ELITIST" Limited Edition 2026

Elitist ski graphic inspiration Don't be an elitist! It's a pretty natural attitude most skiers and boarders share. Unfortunately there are still plenty of others, including companies & resorts that just can't grasp it. . . this ski honors them. I'm building only 20 pair of this limited edition graphic to coincide with the 20 years since I was first inspired by snowboarding to start building my own skis. As usual, I'll be hand signing & numbering each. You'll be 1 of only 20 skiers in the world with these rare one-of-a-kind limited edition J's on your feet! #Jelitist VIEW SKI FEATURES . . . Questions call (802) 585-1098 email info@jskis.com 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 d on't take our word for it, read the reviews from others that have skied them! #FRIENDSONAPOWDAY Giray Dadali riding "The Friend" at Snowbird last spring #friendsonapowday 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. 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. LOVE THESE SKIS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! 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! MORE FOR YOUR MONEY! It's 2013! You buy your clothes, your electronics, even your furniture directly from the company that makes it, why not your skis? Traditional ski companies sell skis to a middle-man (ski shops) who then mark up the price & sell them to you. I have nothing against ski shops, we're just doing things differently here. We're cutting out the middle-man & investing the money back into higher quality, higher performing product and selling it directly to you so you get the best skis possible at near wholesale prices. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FACTORY You support your local farmer, local music, local restaurant, now you can support your local ski company. We design our skis in Vermont & build them in Quebec, North America is a place where skiing is part of life. During the week we turn wood & epoxy into skis, on the weekends we ride them. As our own best customer, performance & durability is our #1 priority, this is why we confidently back all our skis with a 100% Money Back Guarantee. READ REVIEWS . . . Questions call (802) 585-1098 email info@jskis.com These skiers own this "ELITIST" Limited Edition ski Share your shred! #Jelitist rset="utf-8" /> Welcome to the Team! Collin Wheeler - Marquette, Michigan, US . . . FIRST!!! Ryan - Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Dan Maguire - Morrisville, Vermont, US DJC - Burlington, Vermont, US Kevin Orth - Springfield Vermont, US Chris Anders - Bellingham, Washington, US Jonathan Fay - Alta, Utah, US READ REVIEWS . . . 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 READ REVIEWS . . . 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