I think it is just a small phase that will never blow up...poles just seem necessary, like not as much for the park, but they sure help you when you are skiing trees and steeps. You need to plant your poles on bumps to make the turns sometimes.
i do it every once in a while, not very often tho, and only cause in MN our park is pretty short (along with everyother run) which means i'm riding the rope alot and it gets annoying with poles. it still feels pretty awkward tho.
I like poles too, But one reason us skiers have to keep our poles is to seperate us more from aerials, we want to be in a different catagory as them becasue none of us can do a quad quad. (just my thoughts)
200 years ago, skiers used one long rudder to help them turn and we've moved away from that. in 100 years from now, we might not use poles, but i doubt it will happen before then.
i don't think it will ever catch on mainstream, but it helps a lot with balance to ski without poles once in a while. if you can get over how it looks, it helps with training.
im keeping my pole, no way ami skiing w/o poles, i might a run on a high speed run where im carving or something, just for fun, but im keeping da poles
hell no...skiing without poles is just stupid... unless its aerials or sumthin then people that do it look hella stupid... especially when they think they're good