Reviewing the Reviewer: Eric Freson

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In our “Reviewing the Reviewer” series, we ask various BLISTER reviewers questions about their backgrounds and gear preferences to give you a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews. And since we like to rank & review things around here, we also give a score to each of our reviewers’ answers, then come up with a cumulative review grade for each of them.

In the hot seat today is mountain bike and ski reviewer, Eric Freson, and Luke Koppa and I recently subjected Eric to our regular gauntlet of reviewing the reviewer questions, but we also threw in a few questions specifically for Eric, including, How many times have you broken your neck? The story behind his co-founding the freeride team at Western Colorado University? And, of course, we ask him about a couple of Freson-isms, like “torksmash” and “smoking rocks.”

You can also (soon) watch the video of our conversation on our Blister YouTube Channel.

TOPICS & TIMES:

• Eric’s background (3:26)
• What sports did you play growing up? (7:50)
• Broken Neck? (16:30)
• How did you first get connected with Blister? (25:35)
• Eric’s bike & ski preferences (33:15)
• Who is your favorite reviewer at Blister? (42:50)
• Who is your favorite pro biker & skier? (45:00)
• What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? (49:22)
• What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (53:55)
• What gear are you most & least picky about? (54:40)
• Top 3 favorite books, movies, and musicians (1:00:09)
• Give us a random review (1:05:03)
• What’s the best question I haven’t asked you? (1:10:22)

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