smaller is NOT synonymous with more dedicated to skiing. I don't mean that small companies AREN'T dedicated to skiing, just that they aren't NECESSARILY MORE dedicated than a bigger company. like i said earlier. you can be just as dedicated to our aspect of the sport whether you're making 3 pairs a year or 3000. as long as you're putting ALL your effort into the newschool community (ie twintips), you're core.
to summarize, any company that makes only twins is core. any company that gets most of it's revenue from race/rental/allmountain skis is not core.
and royale i used to really respect your opinion, but now you need to get off your high horse of thinking you're super core because people are supposedly gonna donate to your project of making skis in your garage in 2008. that ambition is great, and i hope it works out for you, but it definitely DOESN'T make you any more "core" than line or ninthward, so stop claiming it.