They use regular bindings. Skiboards are much shorter and use a non-releasable binding. And like the melding of clothing styles, these skis are the melding of snowboard and ski. The little company that could It should come as no surprise that the person most responsible for this craze among the younger generation is still well shy of his 30th birthday. After a year, the company was growing so quickly that he moved to a factory in Burlington, which he says is probably the coolest ski town on the East Coast.
Line is now a multi-million dollar company.
He told this group of CEOs and other execs most of them old enough to be his father - that they had blown a golden opportunity because they were so entrenched in their ways. He urged them to hire some young people and listen to them. On his web site, Levinthal explains it this way. I used to ski and snowboard and realized that skiing was really lame because big companies were too stuck on themselves to realize that skiing wasn't cool anymore and that it hasn't evolved in like a million years beyond changes in graphics. So about six years ago I just basically combined the best design features of a ski and snowboard which came out as a short wide twin tip ski which everyone called skiboards.