Is (newschool)skiing getting more or less popular?

[hyllengren]

Is there any way to find out?

One indication of it would probably be to look at the total amount of twin tip skis sold through the years. But how does one do that? Are there any ski companies that would actually release that number? And I guess you'd have to have a bunch of companies release them do it so it doesn't have anything to do with the popularity and success of one company in particular.

I guess I'm just trying to say it would be cool to see some sort of indication of what's happening in the industry as well as a way to look at (in a couple of years) how the olympics affected things

is there any other way to find out? Number of active members on NS and so on?

 

[Maximumsushi]

The number of twin tip skis sold is released each year in the SIA Industry numbers.

I'm not sure about last year but the year before, sales were up.

 

[hyllengren]

well that made this thread pretty damn useless

but thanks, haha

 

[hyllengren]

^ or not, cause you can't actually access the numbers

 

[Z_Benesch]

I would say its getting more popular with olympics and what not

 

[-gram-]

I would say way more popular

 

[ndye]

^ or not, cause you can't actually access the numbers

http://www.snowsports.org/SuppliersServiceProviders/Resources/PressReleases/SIAPressReleases/PressReleaseDetail/contentid/2279http://www.snowsports.org/SuppliersServiceProviders/Resources/PressReleases/SIAPressReleases/PressReleaseDetail/contentid/2279

 

[CaptainObvious.]

The concept of twin tips being used exclusively by newschool skiers is no longer the case. As the years go on companies seem to be adopting a freeride design for even your most average of skiers.

Example: I saw an old dude on Al Dentes last year.

Regardless of whether that's the ski for him or not, the tails of skis that used to be for the vanilla, for the close minded, and for the tight-waisted instruments of the man....well....they're getting turnt up.

 

[Z_Benesch]

Example: I saw an old dude on Al Dentes last year.

I know right? i have seen multiple old people with al dentes

 

[whipple]

saw a study on growing sports somewhere last year and park skiing was supposedly the 2nd fastest growing sport behind stand up paddle boarding. damn sups

 

[APunx176]

saw a study on growing sports somewhere last year and park skiing was supposedly the 2nd fastest growing sport behind stand up paddle boarding. damn sups

Yeah I read that too. Like someone said up there, it's definitely going up, especially because the olympics were this year and it was going up anyways

 

[first_rodeo]

SNOWBOARDING IS DYING OUT, SO YES.

 

[tomPietrowski]

I know right? i have seen multiple old people with al dentes

Think about it, it's a Soft rockered ski so easy to ski. It's going to suit older guys as you don't have to work hard at all on them. Compare them to other 100mm all mnt skis and they are quite a bit softer so a great choice for someone not too strong.

 

[tomPietrowski]

Also to add to the thread park skiing ha slowly been growing over the years. It's still growing but for sure I think has slowed compare to 5-6years ago. Now it's the pow and bc market which is huge. Look at those sia figures. Twin tip sales were up 2% where as at boots were up 50%.

 

[LamieJ]

I would say its getting more popular with olympics and what not

Yeah I read that too. Like someone said up there, it's definitely going up, especially because the olympics were this year and it was going up anyways

The Olympics must have been the biggest thing for freestyle skiing this year. 3 great looking well rounded US Olympians ended up on the podium and all over news everywhere, what better publicity for skiing and the companies that sponsored Joss Gus and Nick?

 

[Turkelton]

SNOWBOARDING IS DYING OUT, SO YES.

Fuck Outside Mag.

 

[Willskiforfree]

I don't really think the number of twin tips being sd would really matter anymore.. Most companies are selling many twin tips and people just know that those are the new type of skis. But I think it's getting bigger, I live in utah and I can say from first hand experience that after the Olympics passed kids at my school were talking about free skiing like it was actually cool and now I'm starting to hear about kids switching over to park skiing instead of snowboarding. A whole new breed of gapers maybe but I'm happy

 

[nonlocal]

In my opinion its getting more and more popular every year. Already most of the park shredders in my local hills are freeskiers.

 

[C-Wal]

I know a lot of people who have bought twin tip skis because it is 'the cool thing to do' and none of them ever step foot in the park. If you really wanted to study this you would have to go beyond just looking at sales of twin tip skis and probably conduct surveys over a range of resorts or online.

 

[J_Steez]

i see a lot more skiers in the park than snowboarders these days. so there's that

 

[Drail]

Also to add to the thread park skiing ha slowly been growing over the years. It's still growing but for sure I think has slowed compare to 5-6years ago. Now it's the pow and bc market which is huge. Look at those sia figures. Twin tip sales were up 2% where as at boots were up 50%.

I forget where I read it - maybe backcountry or perhaps frequency - but a year or two ago the splitboarding side of the snowboard industry was up 200% or some crazy shit

It's pretty awesome to pay attention to these days. Some serious hardware improvements over the past 5 years or so.

 

[J_Berg]

Recently read an article, i forget where, about how the numbers of snowboarders have decreased. At least in my area. Gone are the days of "snowboard parks" so I feel with Olympic exposure the numbers are definitely increasing. More and more start up indie ski brands are being made, and even staying afloat/doing well.

Also we all know skiers go faster, boost higher, spin more, have bigger balls, and do it for the children.

 

[tomPietrowski]

I forget where I read it - maybe backcountry or perhaps frequency - but a year or two ago the splitboarding side of the snowboard industry was up 200% or some crazy shit

It's pretty awesome to pay attention to these days. Some serious hardware improvements over the past 5 years or so.

Yeah exactly. The same is happening with ski tech. Not next season but the year after you will see a lot of t bi players really upping there game in the bc sector. There are some exciting products on the way.

 

[milk_man]

I recently had a snowboarder friend message me asking if he could try out my skis because he wants to start skiing.

SKIING 1

SNOWBOARDING 0

 

[RubberSoul]

I know right? i have seen multiple old people with al dentes

yeah, but it makes sense really. when you think about it, a soft high 90s waist twin tip with some tip rocker is an exceptionally forgiving and easy ski to use

 

[Gnarbangalakazoo]

I think that now that it's in the Olympics, it's about to become seriously massive. I think that because of this, Countries that may not have had much invested in skiing will start upping their game as a whole, I don't think we'll see a downwards trend in freeskiing for a long while.