Goldwin equips Japan's freestyle ski team for a ninth straight season, led by a new load-distribution jacket
Goldwin, the Japanese sportswear house, is supplying Japan's national moguls, ski-cross and aerials squads for the 2026-27 season for the ninth year running, built around a jacket whose insulation pattern is designed to spread load rather than concentrate it at the neck.
Goldwin Inc. said it will supply official uniforms to Japan's national freestyle ski team -- the moguls, ski-cross and aerials disciplines -- for the 2026-27 season, under its supplier contract with the Ski and Snowboard Association of Japan (SAJ, 全日本スキー・スノーボード連盟), according to the company's November 4 announcement. It is Goldwin's ninth consecutive season supplying the team, a relationship running since 2018-19.
The headline piece is a warm jacket built with what Goldwin calls a load-distribution structure -- developed, the company said, with feedback from the athletes themselves. It combines a curved, stretch-capable neckline to ease pressure around the neck with a pattern design that varies the insulation's placement so weight is spread across the garment rather than concentrated at one point, aimed at reducing strain during competition, travel and the long waits between runs. The rest of the kit -- warm pants, padded bib pants, a middle jacket, a rain coat and a warm overcoat, plus discipline-specific competition suits -- carries over Goldwin's existing technical line-up, including Toray Industries' non-fluorine water-repellent finish, Cuduras XT (キューダスXT), on the rain coat, and an outer shell using 53% recycled polyester on the warm jacket. This season's uniform is styled in black and white, which Goldwin describes as representing stillness and light against inner energy and shadow.
Goldwin did not name individual athletes in the announcement. The contract keeps the house's technical apparel in front of Japan's own winter-sport federation for a ninth straight year -- a small but steady line in a broader push into performance outerwear that also runs through Goldwin's own Alpha and BLANC store formats and its licence to produce and sell The North Face in Japan.