Reviewing the Reviewer: Luke Koppa
GEAR:3026 Jul 2019

Reviewing the Reviewer: Luke Koppa

Today we are launching a new series called, “Reviewing the Reviewer,” and the idea is pretty simple: we’ll be asking 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 will be scoring each of our reviewers’ answers to come up with a review grade for each of them.

I sat down with Luke in Blister HQ and asked him about where he grew up and what he was into as a kid; his gear preferences and what gear he is most picky about and least picky about and why; then ON3P Skis founder, Scott Andrus, wrote in with a number of questions for Luke; and I also asked Luke things like: who his favorite BLISTER reviewer is, and I got him to rank his siblings from most favorite to least favorite, before wrapping up with some questions about Luke’s favorite books, music, and movies.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Random Review: Orange Vanilla Coke (5:52)
  • Luke’s Background (7:02)
  • How did you first get connected with BLISTER? (19:05)
  • What are you ski preferences? (22:30)
  • Who is your favorite reviewer at BLISTER? (25:13)
  • What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? (26:32)
  • What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (37:07)
  • What gear are you most & least picky about? (38:11)
  • Questions from ON3P’s Scott Andrus (43:07)
  • Rank your siblings from favorite to least favorite (50:07)
  • Top 3 favorite books, movies, and musicians (52:29)
  • Give us a random review (1:03:19)
  • What’s the best question I haven’t asked you? (1:04:32)

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