The Best Friend

Petran

Pinar Birim & Giray Dadali x J Collab

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Waist Width: 118mm

J Says Best For:
Bottomless powder / Steep & deep / Tree skiing / Pow fields / Cliff drops

Personality

Soft & PlayfulHappy MediumStiff & Aggressive

Conditions

100% powder
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The Artwork

Pinar Birim & Giray Dadali x J Collab

100 Made

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Released November 14, 2024

This is a unique triple collaboration between artist Pinar Birim, engineer Giray Dadali, and us at J skis. Last season, while Giray was developing this new “Best Friend” ski, he also traveled back to his homeland of Türkiye to explore the mountains and connect with his cultural roots, producing the movie Of the Black Sea. During his travels, he met Pinar Birim, a contemporary Turkish artist known for her evocative work that often explores themes of cultural identity, human connection, and abstract expression.

Pinar is a true jack-of-all-trades, Turkish badass! She was a professional snowboarder on the Quiksilver team, becoming the first female snow and skateboarder from Turkey to reach this level. Later, she transitioned into the arts, studying graphic design and fine arts, with her work ultimately resonating across diverse audiences.

For this graphic, Giray and Pinar spent hours sorting through dozens of her pieces, narrowing it down to a few options. From there, Frank took those pieces and applied them to this unique Best Friend ski shape to see which we liked best. It immediately became clear that this graphic was the definitive winner. On the base, we used one of Pinar’s favorite sayings, “I am where I am.” Though simple, it carries a powerful meaning.

This collaboration borrows its name from the “Petran” snowboard—a traditional wooden board without bindings that local children and adults have long used to slide down snowy hills. This rustic, traditional style of riding is a unique part of Turkey’s snow-sport heritage and has even influenced modern snowboarding.

We made only 100 pairs of this incredible graphic on our new, highly anticipated powder ski, The Best Friend. Each pair is hand-signed and numbered, so you’ll own a one-of-a-kind ski like no one else on the mountain—and have an awesome story to tell when everyone in the lift line asks about them! These 100 pairs are guaranteed to sell fast, so if you’re looking for a new Best Friend this winter, make sure to order now before they’re gone!

Watch Giray’s award-winning movie, Of the Black Sea, and follow Giray and Pinar.

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The Best Friend

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Carbon Fiber

Lighter with more energy & pop than fiberglass
Just like fiberglass carbon needs to be fully stretched like a guitar string to give you the most pop. Unlike other brands of skis with wavy black carbon, not stretched, thus you’re not getting the energy out of it, we use pre-cured, pre-stretched carbon fiber laminates. This means the carbon is pre-stretched & cured under perfect conditions at the carbon fiber production facility 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!

Xtra Lite Core

Light weight, durable wood core for the best up and down performance
Unlike our other J skis "The Escalator" and "The Slacker" feature a 100% Aspen wood core for maximum weight reduction while maintaining the torsional resilience and dampening not found on other brand's "light weight" skis. Aspen dramatically reduces weight, giving the ski an incredibly nimble feel. The result is the best of both worlds, a ski that is light for easy ups and maneuverability, yet with power, stability and durability not typically found on other brand's lighter weight skis.

Full Height Sidewalls

Maximum impact resistant & vibration dampening
We’re using super durable, high impact absorbing Ultra High Molecular Weight (UHMW) polyethylene for our sidewalls. This is the same material we use on our ski's bases. It’s very impact resistant and since it’s full height, it also absorbs more vibration like using a longer spring in your car’s suspension. 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 full height plastic shock absorbing sidewalls over your edges or not. We’re cutting the sides of the sidewalls to a 10* angle, with a nice step at the bottom for easy tuning like race skis.

Lite Edge

More durability edges without the weight
We use hardened steel edges that are 33% thinner than our other J skis for reduced weight while still maintaining strength. We reduce the thickness by 0.2mm which is actually still thicker than other brands "light weight" skis, so they are far more durable if you accidentally hit a rock, while maintaining a much longer life when re-tuning.

Lite Base

Faster, lighter durable base material you can count on
We use a 30% thinner base that is 0.2mm thinner than our other J models to shave weight while still providing extreme durability. This base is actually thicker than other brand's "light weight" skis to guarantee you have far more durability when charging down. In addition our sintered Ultra High Molecular Weight (UHMW) Polyethylene is actually the highest quality base material available built to absorb wax better, slide faster, and last longer. Yup! Hard, fast and lasts longer... just like your _______ likes.

Quasitropic Fiberglass

Fibers run in 4 directions to maximize energy & strength
Fiberglass works like a guitar string, when it is flexed it wants to spring back, that’s the energy or pop you feel in a ski. However this energy can only be applied in the direction the actual fiberglass is run. This means the more directions of fiberglass, the more energy, pop & responsiveness. Industry standard “Triaxial” fiberglass runs in only three directions, we use a Quasi Isotropic fiberglass configuration, same as the aerospace industry to maximize energy & strength in as many directions as possible, 4 different axis 0, 90, +45, -45. It costs more, but it’s worth the performance.

SPECS

Length177cm184cm191cm
Dimensions140 - 118 - 129140 - 118 - 129140 - 118 - 129
Sidecut Radius18.5m19.5m21m
Weight Per Ski1880g 2000g2150g
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