http://www.mountainboard.net/index.php/2008/07/30/whose-sport-is-this-anyway/ online mountainboarding magazine Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:37:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.mountainboard.net/index.php/2008/07/30/whose-sport-is-this-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-2319 Jay Fink Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:56:25 +0000 http://www.mountainboard.net/?p=363#comment-2319 I recently read an issue of The Surfers Journal where a shaper was trying to articulate what a true surfer is. The shaper (of course also a surfer) kept more or less not really finding any single way to explain it until he hit upon this (note I am paraphrasing quite a bit): "I am tired of hearing the term watermen, it seems overly used anymore. I think the better of them out there or more defining are more of a general outdoors extreme types." As a mountain boarder, surfer, bodyboarder, trampa ... well you get the idea. I don't think there is a particular style, method or even board that defines any board sport. It just defines itself. By the same token, the idea that commercial interests can define any extreme sport is laughable. I honestly don't know of any truly successful definition of these kinds of sports done through a commercial interest. Not yet anyways. I recently read an issue of The Surfers Journal where a shaper was trying to articulate what a true surfer is. The shaper (of course also a surfer) kept more or less not really finding any single way to explain it until he hit upon this (note I am paraphrasing quite a bit): “I am tired of hearing the term watermen, it seems overly used anymore. I think the better of them out there or more defining are more of a general outdoors extreme types.” As a mountain boarder, surfer, bodyboarder, trampa … well you get the idea. I don’t think there is a particular style, method or even board that defines any board sport. It just defines itself. By the same token, the idea that commercial interests can define any extreme sport is laughable. I honestly don’t know of any truly successful definition of these kinds of sports done through a commercial interest. Not yet anyways.

]]> http://www.mountainboard.net/index.php/2008/07/30/whose-sport-is-this-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Parker Bomar Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:28:59 +0000 http://www.mountainboard.net/?p=363#comment-375 This my Friend is my sport... and clearly yours as well. This my Friend is my sport…
and clearly yours as well.

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