resorts cater to boarders with half-pipes, its growth rate is over ten percent snowboarding is here to stay. Snowboard discrimination is like blaming a car for driving out of control instead of the driver. There are weird people out there on every vertical descent device. It is the person, not the sport in which they are engaged in. Snowboarding is growing at a very high rate of speed. It is in the spotlight. For every outlaw snowboarder, who cuts you off, and is in the limelight, there are bunches who are civil and law abiding. (Wallace, pg.8.13)Many snowboarders complain that when snowboarding mainstreamed it hurt the sport. According to a Ski Patrol member at Seven Springs, "The style and image almost seems to be more important then the riding these days. I feel snowboarding has mainstreamed in a more positive way in the last couple years." Greg has skied for nine years and has been snowboarding for four years. He also stated that, "I started skiing and when I learned to snowboard they helped each other out. I believe that snowboarding has helped my skiing significantly."Snowboarders have fought for the right to board. The image has changed from outlaw(the sport that no one would let on the slopes), to extreme(the sport everyone wants to try and use to show off or get attention. Snowboarding has taken all of the safety precautions when making equipment to help keep the riders injury free. While snowboarders have been fighting for equal rights the boarders have also given skiing a much-needed face-lift and renewed interest in skiing. All of the people on the slopes whether skiers or snowboarders are there to have fun. Snowboarding had a hard struggle to get where it is today and has helped spark a new era for skiing. Snowboarders love the sport so much that boarders have conformed to fit in and be allowed on the slopes. Snowboarders have worked hard to be allowed on the sloped so end the friction and have fun going extrem...
