The Next Level Of Freeskiing: Dennis Ranalter | Meet The Bent Family Ep 4

Dennis is one of the stylishest riders in Austria. He's rocking the Benz Chetler like no one else. I think Dennis is one of the most stylish guys out there. I love seeing him take his hard background in the backcountry. You can really see the effort he puts into making every single trick and doing it with so much perfection. I think that's super cool and he inspires me to have more style and creativity in my skiing. My name is Dennis Rahnalter. I'm from Neustadt im Stugatal, Austria. I'm 27 years old. I grew up actually in between three ski resorts. The small ski resort where I used to be the most of the time with my friends when I grew up. It's like maybe five minutes away from my house with the car. I looked up a lot to my brother. He was skating and snowboarding and I always looked up to him like a lot. And I actually did snowboard until I was 13. But like my closest friends I always went up to the mountain with. They were all skiers. And then I changed to skis again and then I stayed on skis. Dennis was always focused, technical on the slope. His style is pretty iconic, revolutionary. He's one of those guys who looks like he can just make anything look good in any condition. I had the chance to go with the first prototype of the Benchletter 100. We kind of knew already on the first day of skiing. It was like damn, that's the ski. That's it. The Bench 120 is and was a very specific powder ski. For certain snow conditions it was simply too wide. We immediately realized that the Bench 100 will find its place in certain parks or even though in the bipe as well. And if you look at the mountain nowadays, last winter, you could see the Bench 100 everywhere. It seems that ski is for everything. I've never skied a ski like that. I'm that kind of person. I love it when I have like one ski kind of for everything.