I am older than most here. My winters consist of going to Mammoth three weekends a month or so. I get about 35-40 days a year. I lived in Tahoe between(and during) college and grad school, spent 5 winters at Squaw. I never saw much of a rivalry there. Any snowboarder who talked shit on the skiers at Squaw would have to be an idiot. "We dominate the urban scene." Sweet one buddy, the skiers are dominating the Palisades. The rivalry there really was not all that big. I was never once asked the "how come you don't snowboard" question. Even spending my weekends at Mammoth I don't get that. My days are spent on the upper mountain, or chair 22. Boarders are definitely not blowing us away in the zones. There are some rippers, sure, but there are also many skiers throwing down. Anyone who thinks snowboarders are ruling skiers in these zones is blind.
There are elements where skiers are well ahead of snowboarders. We can charge down steep faces faster, handle bigger cliffs, and billygoat better. Snowboarders might be ahead of us in the urban scene(I would not really know, and don't care) but there are many elements of tearing up mountains where we are clearly on top.
Snowboarders are ahead of us in terms of spines, because they can powerslide them. Actually, no, that is really just Jeremy Jones. That is changing with rockered skis. There are certain elements where skis have an advantage, such as speed and landing huge cliffs, and some where snowboarders have advantages. Spines(although, like I said, that is mainly J.Jones) and landing backwards come to mind. But to say that one sport is way ahead of the other is simply not true. The designs of our tools yield advantages to certain sides in certain situations, but to say one side is simply ahead of the other is not true.
Skiing might be following in the park and urban facets of the sport, but go to freeride world tour dot com and watch some of the stuff there. Skiing big lines in dicy conditions, the skiers are doing more than the snowboarders, though I will not take anytihng away from Xavier and the like as they are also sick.
Personally I will take performance in a venue like the bec de ross over doing a wall ride, but to each his own.
I did not see this trailer as particularly exciting. Well put together, yes. But the shots tended to be of the park/urban variety, not of the big mountain variety.