{"id":44354,"date":"2013-12-03T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44354"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:14:39","slug":"skiers-now-saying-snowboarding-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44354","title":{"rendered":"Skiers Now Saying Snowboarding Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mike_murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44355\" alt=\"mike_murphy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mike_murphy-150x200.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mike_murphy-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mike_murphy.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2013\/11\/28\/what-behind-snowboarding-drastic-drop-popularity\/FAkg6xIGM0PitZem5TT2uL\/story.html\"><em><strong>Boston Globe<\/strong><\/em><\/a> wants to do a story on snowboarding it apparently heads directly to the local ski shop and talks to some skiers to get the latest news. They spoke to <strong>Adam Sanchez<\/strong>\u00a0and his boss <strong>Mike Murphy<\/strong> (pictured right) at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SportworksLtd\"><strong>Sportworks<\/strong><\/a> in Duxbury about just what happened to that old white-hot sport of snowboarding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI snowboarded for four seasons,\u201d said Sanchez. \u201cThe skis then were pretty traditional, and the technology was not advancing. But the past couple of years, the new designs have made skiing much easier, especially in powder and the woods. So I went back into skiing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even the researchers are telling tales of woe.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrcassociates.com\/\"><strong>RRC Associates<\/strong><\/a> director of operations <strong>Nate Fristoe<\/strong>, who presented some numbers to the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsaa.org\/\">National Ski Area Association<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>reportedly says snowboarding has been falling off for years even though some used to claim &#8220;snowboarding saved the ski industry&#8221; (we wrote that line).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSnowboarding lost some of its mojo around 2005 and 2006, and we\u2019ve been running on fumes since then. It\u2019s like any kind of trend \u2014 full of all sorts of energy until it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, now that all the snowboard tourists are finally packing it up it looks like there will be more snow for us. We never really like them anyway. Yay skiing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2013\/11\/28\/what-behind-snowboarding-drastic-drop-popularity\/FAkg6xIGM0PitZem5TT2uL\/story.html\">Boston Globe<\/a>\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/bobstonite\">Bobstonite<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Boston Globe wants to do a story on snowboarding it apparently heads directly to the local ski shop and talks to some skiers to get the latest news. They spoke to Adam Sanchez\u00a0and his boss Mike Murphy (pictured right) at\u00a0Sportworks in Duxbury about just what happened to that old white-hot sport of snowboarding. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44361,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354\/revisions\/44361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}