Replying to The Olympics and Snow-sport Stereotypes
I'm hoping that the new disciplines of slopestyle and halfpipe for the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia takes the lime light away from snowboarding or allows the two sports to share the lime light. I'm sick of the stupid stereotypes makes the general public associate snow parks purely with snowboarders, don't get me wrong I have nothing against snow boarders. I just feel skiers get associated with racing and snowboarding is the 'cool' sport in mainstream media. I'm a ski instructor myself and the vast amounts of people that tell me they want to start snowboarding once they have learnt to ski and I find myself having to sell the sport telling them that skiing is just as 'cool' if not more than snowboarding. Personally I think us skiers have something to show in and the Olympics in February is going to be a game changer for peoples opinions on skiing. Most people I know were oblivious to the fact that skiing exists in the slopestyle and halfpipe discipline. Please discuss.
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