Black Sheep Sports
Address:
Holzhofstrasse 5
Munich 81667
Germany
Winter Store Hours:
Monday: 1-7
Tuesday – Friday: 11-7:30
Saturday: 10-3
Website: blacksheepsports.de
Email: info@blacksheepsports.de
Phone: +49 89 21019826
There aren’t many freeride-focused shops in Europe, and there certainly aren’t many as good as Black Sheep Sports in Munich.
The owner, Sebastian Steinbach, has created a shop at the center of freeride skiing culture in Bavaria, with a deep passion for skiing and a top-notch lineup of carefully curated products on the shelves. Sebastian is also a MasterFit-certified bootfitter and specializes in freeride and free-touring boots — each of which incorporates different materials and have different fit concerns than race boots.
And nowadays, Black Sheep Sports is more than just a freeride ski shop. While it was originally opened to fill that niche, over the past decade it has grown from a small 30-square-meter freeride-focused shop to a leading specialty store for alpine touring and off-piste skiing.
Listeners of GEAR:30 are likely familiar with Sebastian, but if you haven’t heard his conversations with BLISTER founder and editor-in-chief, Jonathan Ellsworth, we recommend giving them a listen.
Brands
Sebastian has spent the last ten years cultivating a “ski gallery” of the best boutique freeride and touring skis from around the world. The selection of skis at Black Sheep Sports is impressive and includes over 60 models of skis from brands like Moment, Armada, G3, RMU, Blossom, Bomber, Augment, and Crosson. The skis are displayed as works of art as you walk through the shop.
Black Sheep Sports has over 80 different models of ski boots from brands like Atomic, Tecnica, Dalbello, Lange, Scarpa, and Roxa. Plus they have Sidas liners and the bootfitters at Black Sheep Sports are eager to help you find a boot.
Services
From tunes to bootfitting, to ski tunes, to binding mounts – Black Sheep Sports can help you get the right products, with the right fit, and help you keep your equipment in the best shape possible.
The staff at Black Sheep Sports identify themselves as gear nerds and are always looking for the next ski for their personal quivers. They are knowledgeable about many types of skiing that not many other local shops specialize in. Black Sheep not only offers experience in freeride, all-mountain, and powder skis, but they also have plenty of knowledge in mountaineering.
Black Sheep prides itself on excellent, custom bootfitting. With several MasterFit-certified bootfitters on staff, Black Sheep is worth a stop if you are looking for a new pair of ski boots. The gap between expert shops like Black Sheep Sports and the leading big box shops in and around Munich has grown. No race-oriented or big-box shop in Munich can match their bootfitting expertise, and because of that, Black Sheep Sports fits boots for some of the biggest names in freeride skiing.
With their focus being on excellent service, the team at Black Sheep Sports recommends that everyone book an appointment ahead of time, regardless of whether you are looking to purchase skis or boots or require bootfitting services.
In today’s fast-moving times, Black Sheep Sports is a bit of a throwback with their relaxed advice and they always try to take as much time as necessary with the customer.
Because skiing is their passion, a visit to the shop might take a little longer. But you’re likely to walk away with not only the right gear but also a great story or two. If you’re in the market for getting the best gear for your needs in the Munich area, be sure to check out Black Sheep Sports.
Ski Demos
Most of the skis Black Sheep Sports sells are available to demo. If you want to demo something but it’s not available, talk to the staff and they can help find a solution. To find out more stop by the shop, or give them a call.
Online Presence
Black Sheep Sports focuses on in-person services and sales but they do encourage online reservations for ski purchases and they require reservations for bootfitting and for all ski boot purchases.
Online reservations are required for bootfitting in order to allow the right amount of time to get a proper boot and a custom fit. Each bootfitting starts with an analysis of your feet and what you need in a boot.
Black Sheep Sports Deal for Blister Members
Blister Members receive 10% off skis. Head over to the Blister Member Clubhouse to find your code.
Bottom Line
No other shop in Munich can match the depth of expertise and assortment of gear available at Black Sheep Sports. And they pair that with excellent bootfitting, old-school customer service, knowledgeable shop talk, passionate employees, and … a fridge full of fresh Bavarian beer. Because according to Sebastian, you should “never trust a shop that doesn’t have beer.”
So check out Black Sheep, and tell them we sent you.
Great to see that Blacksheepsports is finally a recommended shop on Blister. Good match!
Well deserved Sebastian! What can I say, one of the pioneers in the “old world” when it comes to micro brands. So many top recommendations to customers of many Blister reviewers’ favourites (moment bibby, moment deathwish, on3p Kartel series, rmu apostle and many more).
Thank you for all the great advice when looking for new gear, for late night emails or for having time for a chat whenever I come by to visit the “toy store”.
Keep on with the great work!