that's why you get people supporting the companies that support like said before.  for example, I'm getting a bunch of people to ride the LINE darksides and mavericks this year.  For an older person that likes carvin down the hill what's wrong with the maverick? nothing. as a skier and a supporter it's your job to spread the market to a wider range of people.  Just cause Line's look a certain way and are twin doens't mean they're only for teens.  What about a person who is a little older and has a strong ski background, maybe even some race or soemthing, they don't need crazy speed but the darkside would give it to them and they'd love the tight turn radius.  Hell don't forget teens for that matter.  Everyone's usually a little reluctant to change.  Racers obviously love to ski if they do something that gay for fun, haha jk, but really, I'm gonna get a few guys riding twins with me this season.  they simply haven't tried cause they haven't bothered, I tell them they don't know what you're missing.  I bet some will love it enough to start to convert, hell some of those rich bastards will buy them just to play with now and again, and what's wrong with that, more sales for the companies like LINE that support what we do.  LINE didn't sell out making these semi-twins, they're expanding they're market and doing the opposite, the more money they make with these models will go into more research.  How many companies can you say have bit the bullet and gone balls out for skiing like Line has, I mean it's almost life or death for them every season.  They started with little things we all think as normal now cause everyone else does it.  fatter, closer to the center of the ski, equal twin tips, even the graphics (remember how nuts that seemed at first).  Now look at what's comin, the four hole inserts, and the pivogy binding.  This is the kind of people you wanna be helpin to help you.
Of course I'm givin props to LINE here but there's lots of other companies that were mentioned before like Siver, Orage, Oakley, don't forget PBP and all the other film companies, also who knows what Armada will bring to the table.  Lastly, I'm gonna mention a big corp, but I feel Rossi deserves it with the Scratch, that ski is something new to the market and I have never heard one bad thing about yet, even on forums.
So, in closing here, I'm also gonna say that that summer money a lot of people make should go to whatever brand you like the most.  I mean most people aren't good or hard enough on their equipment to smash it up, so buying a pair of 00/01 or 01/02 Line's won't hurt ya at all.  I mean how many people can say they won't buy the best ski from a company cause it's not technologically advanced enough for them?  You'd be full of shit.
Everybody skiin, everyone on twins even better.
congrats if you read it all, hope my thoughts helped a bit.
--ride for^ever--