Canon Skiboards Design-a-Board Contest!
By: Roussel

I sent an e-mail to Jason Levinthal of Line with my concerns about Line's new line up, specifically about the new bindings and this is what he had to say:

"Last year we sold 400 pair of aluminum bindings, 5 years ago we sold 4,000. I'm not turning my back on anything, every year more and more people said I skiboards were too expensive and less and less people were willing to pay for the expensive to make aluminum binding. At the same time less and less people purchased our skiboards causing the volume to go down and cost to produce them go up. By last year we couldn't even justify making the aluminum binding there simply wasn't enough demand for it. As far as the word skiboard get over it, a skiboard is anything you want it to be and if you never progress you will always beliveve that it must be under 100cm. Progressions is about change in order to progress the sport and to do that we needed to take skiboards to the next level. To make the same size, same length same ski (skiboard) year after year and restrict ourselves to never progressing is wrong. We want to go bigger in the air, faster, float better, and to do all that we needed to progress skibaords into longer fatter lengths. You can get technical and say well those aren't skiboards those are skis. Call them what you want, I don't care about the name I only care about making products that enable us to push it further and if people call them skis instead of skiboards fine but I know the product is enabling progression that remaining as a "skiboard" in the classical definitiion would not allow.

Thanks for the support,
J"

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