Burcin's Blog

Over the past few weeks I had 3 different races. The first race was a GS at Okemo on 12/29. It was a fun race that was really just a warm up race. I came in 8th overall and 4th for first years. I was pretty happy to get my first J3 race under my belt. The second race was the Killington time trial on 12/30 which gives us our seed for our mountain. Each mountain has their own time trial and sets a run order for the first 2 races. It’s always a fun race and a great race to chill with your friends. I won our time trial and I was real happy. My final race was a SL at Suicide Six on 1/4. Both of the courses were really tight and many people blew out. I came in 2nd and my buddy from Killington won. I won for first years and was one of 2 in the top ten. The best part of the day was Killington won the J3 banner!! The banner has been around for a long time and Killington hasn’t won it in about 2 years. Everyone was psyched, especially the coaches. It’s been a great beginning to my first J3 season. I hope to continue that tomorrow at an Okemo GS.

.)) Kyle Burcin

Messege from the "Moose"

The ski racing season is here! Finally, snow is falling and bumpy bus rides have begun. I am improving daily and each race is a learning experience. One aspect of ski racing that is often overlooked is academics. Attending Carrabassett Valley Academy means that I have to take a full set of college prep classes. My travel schedule January through March is ridiculously busy. For example, I will only be in class two days this month! This tests my organization and communication skills. I work hard, knowing that this experience will be an asset later in life.

Enough about school, lets talk about racing. I just returned from the Sunday River Nor Ams and it was quite challenging. The level of competition was absurdly high and I really enjoyed the opportunity to be a part of the series. I was able to watch eight point skiers do their thing and run the same burly courses. Overall, it was an awesome experience.

.)) Ben Morse

First POC Satellite Shop

Despite its short history, with only three seasons behind us, POC is available in more than 30 countries and has set its marks by POC athletes piling up Olympic, X-Games and World Champion titles, together with POC humbly receiving numerous international Design, Conceptual and Strategic Business Awards.

The POC Chamonix store is a first mini flag ship store, located in the heart of European skiing. The ambition is to be able to visualize the whole assortment in a POCish environment, together with highly skilled personnel, to share complex product information involving, R&D, function, medical aspects, technical information i.e. engineering, construction and materials, patents and purpose. The store is located in the center of the village on 270 rue du Docteur Paccard, Chamonix´s main street.

The POC store is a mono brand store, except for a limited Apple assortment, carrying iPods, iTouches and iPhones, with assorted spares and associated products.

The POC store concept was developed by Swedish architect firm Spacewalk www.spacewalk.com in collaboration with POC' s in-house design team. The brief was simple: for the architects to gestalt a store environment from the exact same formula constituting POC as a company: The same formula that directs us when developing anything from products, print or other communication. “It´s only a matter of scale and media”.

”It´s a dream coming through”, establishing this first hub of competence, to support and to increase the knowledge transfer onto consumers. There is also the aspect of possibly inspiring other POC retailers, around the world, to establish in-depth product competence for better consumer experience, at point of purchase. Competence and knowledge transfer is one crucial corner stone in POC´s continues growth.

– Something handled as an isolated project at POC, where the POC Store is a first of many actions, to come”. Says: Stefan Ytterborn CEO POC