Now What?

After being around to watch the progression of our sport take the winning trick at X Games from a switch 720 to a nosebutter triple cork in just over a decade, I'm really beginning to wonder, what comes next? When will it stop? In another 10 years will people be throwing Quints? (5 flips for those of you that are math challenged) How can we build features to support these tricks? How do we expect people to have style when you have to get so many flips or so many rotations around to win a competition? With all these unanswered questions It seems that we've realized that the sport has come to a point where the unrealistic standards of the competition side of skiing as well as the rate of progression has forced more talented skiers to turn away, and has encouraged the growth of the filming aspect of skiing, as well as pushed emphasis toward individual style. Alas, even this does not seem to be the "bright future of skiing", as the digital age is pushing us away from dvd's and toward online content, which does not draw nearly as much revenue as selling hard copies. It seems that our culture right now has reached a bubble, but what where will we go in the future? What will happen when the bubble bursts? Is there a future of freestyle skiing, or have we passed our prime?