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Viktor Devečka

  • Forest Skis
  • Ski maker
  • Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
  • Rising Star
Viktor Devečka Ski maker
Contact
Slovak, Czech, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+421 904497843
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A skier body and soul

  • • Viktor skis 50 days a year and spends the summer making skis
  • • Using eco materials and limiting waste are important to him
  • • He started designing skis after breaking his own

Viktor Devečka comes from the most popular skiing region in Slovakia and worked as a ski instructor from the age of 16. He is passionate about skiing through and through. But as he puts it: “Skiing is only the icing on the cake.” Aside from the sport, it is his passion for design and product development that have driven him towards his craft. He started designing skis and making his first technical drawings at 18, and by 22 he had made his first pair of custom skis. What spurred him to open his own workshop in 2013 was an accident in which he broke his freeride skis. Viktor worked to rebuild and redesign them, and managed to meet 95% of the design standards set for the following season. These skis became the PERUN model as we know it today.

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Works

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PERUN 183

The PERUN is a model of dark blue ultralight handcrafted freeride skis with a flax topsheet and a fine nature-inspired indigo pattern. The printing technique for this pattern is protected by UNESCO.

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PERUN 191

This model of PERUN consists of wide and long full carbon freeride skis with a black race ski base. It is made with a light cherry wood topsheet complemented by signature cut-outs through a wooden surface in order to reveal the carbon structure.

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Four Forest Skis models

Four different ski models: PERUN, LOTOR, FROST and SKADI. PERUN, the first are wide freeride skis with a walnut topsheet. LOTOR is a mid-fat asymmetric backcountry pair with green print on an oak topsheet. FROST is an allmountain pair with a cherry topsheet, and the fourth pair, SKADI, is a narrow pair of freeride skis made with indigo-dyed flax.

Photo: ©Lukáš Horváth
VESNA 166

These allround skis are dark blue and narrow. They are alpine skis, or piste skis. They were handcrafted with indigo-dyed flax and a fine nature-inspired pattern which was printed according to a printing technique protected by UNESCO.

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