DPS: A Legacy of Innovation in Ski Design and Technology

2002: DPS' Stephan Drake was the first to introduce the word "rocker" to skiing's vocabulary.

2005: DPS built the first rockered sidecut ski--the Lotus 138

2005: DPS pioneered the world's first Pure carbon fiber sandwich construction ski. 

2011: The arrival of DPS' patent pending Cleat Technology and the Spoon with Cleat Technology.

Introducing the DPS Spoon and the patent pending DPS Cleat Technology.

The Spoon is a revolutionary new design that moves deep snow skiing into the future.  In 2007, DPS' Stephan Drake started looking for ways to increase ski angle to encourage lift for more dynamic, stylistic carves and slides in deep snow.   Deeply convex bases became the focus. However, the inherent problem with base convexity is that a ski becomes dangerous in harder snow and sketchy entrances due to the obvious lack of edge grip.  Enter DPS' patent pending Cleat Technology: a 3-D downward vertical undulation in the edge combined with a convex base. Cleat Tech endows a spoon shaped ski with useable edge at low ski angles for hard snow. At the same time Cleat Tech doesn't compromise the ski's flex pattern, or the convex bases' dramatic performance gains in deep snow.

The Spoon moves ski design into a complex world of four dimensions where shape rocker, base convexity, and cleats all must work together in a synergistic design.  Welcome to the future. 

Visit DPS Facebook to see a photo gallery of the patent pending DPS Spoon 150 + patent pending DPS Cleat Technology.