The battle has raged for more than 30 years now. The sport of snowboarding swept the world in the 1980s (quickly following on from the lacklustre success of the monoski) and soon anyone who was anyone wanted to be a rad snow surfer, and definitely not a boring old “two planker”.
Two long, skinny planks that were not for turning easily at that. The average age of skiers touched the 40-years-old mark, and predictions that snowboarding would sweep away skiers by the end of the 20th century were rife … More