How about anybody who says zero edge maintenence is on crack. I don't care how many zig zags the skis have, edges are still made out of metal, they still dull out over time, they still need to be kept up if you want to turn.
Now Travis Rice is going to go where the money takes him. Unless he is owns/founded part of the company, well he probably just does not care. If you give me 6 boards a year, i have no input in the product, and you give me little money...well like im going to stay on that company team for long. Now....i think i feel the way most skiers do....call them skis, sell them in pairs. Its ok, the world is not going to end if you call them skis, and we don't like the whole ( narrow ass snowboards joke). I think that snowboard companys have bashed on us enough to not get our money.
Fuck em. I don't give a shit how good their product is, i support skier based/founded companies. Line,Armada,4FRNT, and 9thward have a hard enough getting by. they don't need any competiton from snowboard makers. They get no love from me.