honestly, I want to shoot every person that says anything along the lines of 'the olympics ruined snowboarding', 'sport _____ is too sold out now and full of posers', etc.
who the hell gives a shit if there's 50 fat kids on the mountain that can't ski ridin around on troublemakers? guess what, you'll still be better than them, and all the money they spent goes into making better skis. have you seen any of this years snowboarding movies? they all suck right? fuckin olympics. and my friend that boards? he has no fun anymore on the hill ever since those assholes on the IOC added snowboarding.
listen to how stupid you sound. look at skateboarders now. 90% of them all bitch about how sold out it is, and how corporate america killed skateboarding. who gives a shit? OK, so tony hawk does bagel bites adds on primetime tv. guess what, he's still one of the best vert boarders of all time.
remember back in the day? when people got arrested for skateboarding, and people had to find empty pools to board in? yeah, well now you can find public skate parks in new england. it really sucks how mainstream skateboarding is. honestly.