In reply to ColdWill:
He's bang on, as you would expect.
As someone who was boarding every other spare minute through the 90's I remember it all kicking off. The sell out to the IOC and ultimately the FIS killed the spirit of boarding back then. The ISF was doing fine, the riders were happy with the way things were going. Just like climbing the rules were agreed by common consensus.
Yes there was increasing commercialsiation coming in (I recall the horror when Saloman made their first "boards") and everything ended up being made by Elan, but it was still a sport outside the mainstream.
Handing the sport to a body with no emotional investment in was like handing the Climbers' Club to Countryside Alliance.
Anyhow, I'm off to the loft to dust down my 1991 Sims All Mountain and fit some day-glo Bruton hi-backs....
