This article is reprinted from The Professional Skier.
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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. This brief overview provides basic details about some of the gear you'll see under your students' feet this season, including skiboards, twintips, extreme carving skis, and midfats. With the season quickly approaching, now is the time to learn all you can about the design and performance characteristics of the new gear. In your quest for information, be sure to seek other resources on these tools, discuss them with others who have used them and, above all, get some mileage on them as soon as you can. From skateboard parks came halfpipes, and people on skateboards, inline skates, and even BMX bikes all found the new digs to their liking.