ReWinch

Brand overview and significance

Rewinch is a specialist hardware brand focused on one thing: making electric winching truly portable for action sports. Designed and built as a compact electric winch that fits in a backpack, Rewinch is aimed at riders who want reliable tow-ins without gas engines, heavy frames or complicated setups. With a core product weighing around 15 kg, capable of towing at speeds up to roughly 80 km/h over 200 to 800 meters of rope, it gives skiers, snowboarders and other riders a way to turn almost any environment into a tow-in spot.

The company positions its winch as “the world’s lightest and fastest action sports electric winch,” with enough pulling force to deep-water start wakeboarders and to tow snowboarders or skiers into rails, gaps and step-downs on snow. It is built as an all-year, all-surface tool: wakeboarding and hydrofoiling in summer, snowskating and street skiing in winter, and everything from skimboarding to sled towing in between. For the price of a mid- to high-end setup, crews can add a motorised tow to their kit instead of relying on rare rope tows, snowmobiles or vehicles.

In the freeski ecosystem, Rewinch sits at the intersection of wake culture, urban skiing and modern backcountry filming. For a street or winch segment filmed in places like Québec, a portable electric winch is often the hidden ingredient that makes repeatable speed and clean in-runs possible. For resort and sidecountry crews, it becomes a way to lap a short face, tow into a step-down or turn a mellow slope into a session without needing lift access. That flexibility is what makes Rewinch increasingly visible behind the scenes in ski, snowboard and multi-sport edits.

Product lines and key technologies

Rewinch keeps its product line intentionally simple. The core is a compact electric winch unit, commonly sold in a “Rewinch Pack” that includes the main winch, battery bundle, charger and essential cables. Around that main unit, the brand offers a small selection of accessories and upgrades such as mounting hardware, ropes, a rider remote and a module that unlocks bi-directional “system 2.0” style riding.

The winch itself is built around a high-power electric drivetrain housed in a small chassis roughly the size of a carry-on bag. It runs at 48 V DC, which is a low-voltage standard also used in many hobby and light-vehicle systems, and is intended to be safe when used correctly in wet, cold environments. With a peak pulling force rated around 295 kg, it can pull riders out of deep water, into snow features or along flat ground with enough spare power for heavier setups. Standard configurations are tuned for speeds up to roughly 40 km/h, with an available speed modification that raises that ceiling to around 80 km/h for advanced riders and longer lines.

A key part of the system is its wireless remote. The rider holds a compact controller that allows start, stop and speed control, with built-in safety features designed to cut power quickly if something goes wrong. Consistent electronic control gives smooth pulls from start to finish, with the brand quoting very tight tolerances on set speed. On snow this matters: repeatable in-run speed is the difference between a safe rail or gap session and a frustrating or dangerous one.

Internally, the winch is designed to be tangle-resistant. A carefully shaped fairlead and rope path are meant to keep the tow rope feeding cleanly in and out of the machine, and the entire unit can be run horizontally or vertically. That opens up more creative mounting options for ski crews: bolted to concrete, anchored with stakes, strapped to a tree, pinned under a vehicle or buried with sandbags. The hardware is modular and upgradable, with the brand openly encouraging riders to adapt the platform to their own use-cases over time.

Ride feel: who it’s for (terrains & use-cases)

Because Rewinch is a towing system, the “ride feel” is about how cleanly and predictably it delivers speed to the rider. On snow, that starts with consistent acceleration. The winch is designed to ramp riders up smoothly rather than yanking them to speed, whether they are starting from a standstill on a flat run-in or dropping from a platform into a rail. Once up to speed, the controlled pull makes it easier to focus on line and trick rather than constantly recalculating timing.

For urban and street skiing, Rewinch is an obvious tool. It allows crews to set up in tight city spaces, alleys and industrial zones where cars or sleds are impractical or unwanted. With a single anchor point and a clear rope line, riders can tow into handrails, wallrides or gaps again and again with almost identical speed each time. The relatively quiet electric motor is also a big advantage compared with gas winches when working in noise-sensitive areas at night.

On resort edges and in sidecountry zones, Rewinch can turn a short pitch or road cut into something worth lapping. Instead of burning energy hiking for each hit, a small crew can anchor the winch at the bottom or top of a slope, tow riders back into position and effectively create a mini rope tow. For locations like Revelstoke BC and other big-mountain resorts with short access walls, road berms or roadside hits, this can be the difference between “one and done” tricks and full sessions with time to refine ideas.

The system is best suited to riders who already have solid board or ski control and a clear sense of risk management. While beginners can use lower speeds for gentle laps or sled towing, the core audience is intermediates to pros who want to tow into features, build custom lines or drive progression in a controlled, repeatable way.

Team presence, competitions, and reputation

Rewinch has anchored its brand image by working with a mix of high-profile and core athletes across different sports. On the snow side, the team list includes riders like Halldór Helgason and Sébastien Toutant, names that carry serious weight in snowboard street and slopestyle culture. In water and cable sports, team riders include wakeboarders and wakeskaters such as JB O’Neill, Dominik Hernler, Brian Grubb and others who regularly push what is possible behind a winch.

Those athletes use Rewinch in real projects rather than just in staged promos: tow-ins for park and urban features, custom wake setups where boats or cables are impractical, and creative multi-sport shoots that jump between snow, water and concrete. For freeskiers watching on skipowd.tv, this means the winch is tested in the same kind of environments where many independent ski films are made: rivers and ponds, snowy city stairs, back-alley rails, and short, steep faces just outside resort boundaries.

Beyond team marketing, Rewinch has built a solid word-of-mouth presence through user reviews and community discussions. Riders highlight the compact form factor, strong pulling power for its size and the simplicity of the rider remote. Independent review platforms report high overall satisfaction scores, with most criticism centered on the learning curve of setup and the need to understand basic anchoring and safety rather than on the core performance of the unit itself. Within the niche world of winching, Rewinch is already seen as a benchmark for electric, travel-friendly systems.

Geography and hubs (heritage, testing, venues)

Rewinch’s business footprint is European, with the company based in Portugal and shipping worldwide, but its “terrain footprint” is global. Marketing materials show the winch used in warm-water lagoons, urban canals, city snow, mountain roads and even simple backyards where a tree or vehicle can serve as an anchor point. The brand leans heavily on the idea that your local environment is already full of features; the winch just unlocks them.

In winter, the most natural hubs are places with reliable snow and a strong street or park scene. Cities like Québec, with long, cold winters and dense architecture, are prime Rewinch territory for rail missions and wallrides. Smaller resort towns with accessible road cuts, drainage ditches and service roads can use the winch as a micro lift or tow-in system for hand-built jumps. Meanwhile, in the Southern Hemisphere and coastal zones, the same unit appears on beaches and rivers, towing riders who might later take it to the snow during their opposite-season winter.

For skipowd.tv viewers, the message is that Rewinch is not tied to a single mountain or culture. Instead, it tracks with the crews who move between water and snow, who drive between spots at night, and who see potential in everyday terrain that lifts will never service.

Construction, durability, and sustainability

Construction-wise, Rewinch is designed like a serious piece of marine and action-sports hardware rather than a hobby toy. The brand specifies marine-grade materials for key components so the winch can live near saltwater as well as on snowy roadsides. The low-voltage 48 V DC system is chosen to balance power output with safety and regulatory simplicity, and the housing is built to keep snow and spray away from sensitive electronics under normal use. Internally, the routing of rope and the roller fairlead are engineered to minimize tangles, keep the rope feeding smoothly and cope with different mounting orientations.

The electronics and drivetrain are tuned for reliability and repeatable performance. By using a dedicated controller matched to the motor and battery, Rewinch can deliver smooth acceleration curves and maintain a set speed within a tight tolerance. In cold environments, that consistency matters as batteries lose some capacity and mechanical drag increases; a system designed from the start for winter as well as summer is better placed to handle those swings.

From a sustainability perspective, the electric platform offers clear advantages over gas winches in noise and local emissions. There is no fuel to spill, no exhaust to breathe on the in-run and no engine noise overriding communication between riders and filmers. The company’s modular, upgradable hardware philosophy also encourages long service life: riders can replace individual parts, upgrade components and tweak setups rather than discarding a whole unit when needs change. The true environmental footprint still depends on how electricity is generated locally and how gear is transported, but for many crews Rewinch is a quieter, cleaner alternative to traditional combustion winches.

How to choose within the lineup

Choosing a Rewinch setup is mostly about deciding how you plan to use it and what you already own. The base Rewinch Pack is aimed at riders who want a complete winch solution out of the box: winch, battery bundle, charger and main cables. If your primary focus is towing skiers or snowboarders into features, that base pack plus the right rope length and anchors is often enough to get started. You can then add mounting kits tailored to your typical spots, whether that means ground stakes, straps, sandbags or fixed bolts.

For more advanced and park-style usage, the rider remote and bi-directional add-on become more interesting. A dedicated rider remote makes solo sessions much easier, letting you self-manage pulls when you do not have a large crew on hand. The bi-directional module effectively turns a single winch into a mini cable system, useful for repeated hits in the same line, short “park lane” setups over water or snow, and creative urban features where back-and-forth laps are possible.

Rope choice and length matter as much as the winch itself. Shorter ropes give quicker acceleration and less sag for tight urban spots, while longer lines open up big pond gaps, long rail approaches and drawn-out slope sessions. Thinking about where you will anchor, how much space you have for run-ins and runouts, and how heavy your riders and boards or skis are will help you tune the system. Rewinch’s own guides and community videos are useful references for matching rope lengths, mounting styles and safety practices to your local terrain.

Why riders care

Riders care about Rewinch because it turns imagination into reality in places where there is no lift, no boat and no sled shuttle available. A compact, airline-friendly winch that you can carry in a backpack means that a flight, a rental car and a few simple anchors are enough to build a session in a new city, at a quiet beach or on a snow-covered service road. For ski and snowboard crews, that means more unique spots, more control over speed and more time riding instead of hiking or negotiating access to heavy machinery.

For the skipowd.tv community, Rewinch is part of the invisible infrastructure behind modern multi-sport and street segments. It is the hum in the background as a crew gets towed into a handrail, the quiet pull that makes a flat city park skiable, and the repeatable speed that lets riders work through trick ideas safely. In a world where creativity often outpaces what resorts can build, a portable electric winch like Rewinch gives skiers, snowboarders and their friends a way to keep expanding their playground—without waiting for someone else to install the lift.