this is exactly why skiing is worse than snowboarding. skiers are all about doing the biggest spins and most flips they can. 14's are like normal now and half the pros out there are double flipping, while snowboardings pro's are out there dickin around on 2 foot tall jibs just having fun, and being way more progressive than skiing has ever been. we care so much about how badass we are cause we can do the most balsy biggest shit. while snowboarders are just messin around having fun and not giving a shit about how crazy their tricks are.
watch skiers and snowboarders while they are hikin a rail, you will see skeirs tap dancing doing quadrouple switchup pretzel 450s out or whatever, then afterbanging to try and look even more badass. while the snowboarders are just doing taps and fun stuff not giving a shit about how hardcore skiing is.
look at how we dress, your average park skier has the newest 40,000mm waterproofing matching oakley gear that simon dumont wore in the x games, with the newest 150 dollar goggles with super x ray lenses,the newest helmet, gloves, boots, skis etc...
while snowboarders just throw on whatever they see in their room, basically shit they wear off the mountain, some sunglasses, and 5 year old boots and they are ready to go.
basically on average, skiers are a bunch of uptight nerds trying to be cool, we are like the rollerbladers you see in the rollerbladers you see in the skatepark trying the most technical crazy shit they can to get respect while the skaters just laugh.
skiing needs to stop caring about how technical we can get, how awesome we look, and how forced our afterbang is. and just relax and have fun. then we will be as cool as snowboarding.