"interesting" jake buton interview

snowboarding is a fad, maybe just in Utah no one boards but I was at snowbird slopestyle comp the other day and there was probably 80 skiers competeing in it and maybe 15 snowboarders.

We pay our debt sometimes.

Here in europe snowboard is still a lot bigger than freestyle skiing...

I do wheelchair freestyle you should see me

The snowboard industry is snowboardings biggest threat. cool, were a threat



You know you have the coolest cab driver when he says, 'And we're off like a prom dress.'

i think thats funny be cause its just gonna keep going back and forth. there will always be core riders in both sports, but there will be people that do it just cause its popular. id say in like 10 years, all the "cool" kids will be skiing. then another ten, and they will be back snowboarding. there just always have to be some of us true to skiing.

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He says its a threat when a sub-division of his company is or was sponsoring skiers...... what a tool.



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Did I catch sarcasm in that, or are you serious, because Im not always called smart.



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I heard that Anon may pull out of skiing. Not sure though. I do know that Ash Battersby is off the team and on Scott now.

yes i think that one of the questions should hav been "whats your thoughts on sponsering your threat -'skiers'- and then pulling out of sponsering them? Did you not realize the awesome power and numbers of them?

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ok..heres the deal

Jake (i dont know him very well, but have talked) isnt great at truely expressing what he feels about skiing. I dont speak for him, only for Anon., and the staff.

People at Burton dislike the skiers that kept them off the hill when snowboarding first came around. The "ski nazis" that wouldnt accept change. This attitude was fostered by the large conglomerate ski companies (Salomon/Rossi/Dynastar). They saw snowboarding a threat to their bottom line, therefor skiing was "holding snowboarding back"

EVERYONE on staff at the offices is completely down with freeskiers on anon. Its not like the anon. guys just decided one day "aww hell, lets sponsor skiers even though we hate them". Everyone there knows that what we do is exactly what pro snowboarders do. Those of us who are in the industry, or skiing every day we can, are just like snowboarders. We are driven by the love of a sport we call our own.

There is no hatred from inside of Burton towards newschool skiing. Its the resentment of the big company's that tried to kill snowboarding when it first came about.

As far as the anon. pulling outve skiing rumor, that is completely untrue. We are continuing in our support for freeskiing, we are building an expanded team, and have signed athlete contracts through 06/07. If we were quitting anytime soon, there wouldnt be any such thing as I listed above.

Anon., to me (im biased, but truthful) and Burton in general, has been one of the most rewarding and fun jobs ive ever had (and ive only been there a month and a half). Were fully committed to skiing, sponsoring of ski films/events, and everything involved in our movement.

So yeah, thats about it. Its a bunk rumor

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i know him and his sons!! OMG i like went to his 50th b day, i like am friends with his son, wow im going to throw myself a party....

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