Luckily, I managed to get a brief conversation with the powerful young boarder in between his busy travel schedule. It's moving along in two directions, one whole direction is into a robotic era, the people are learning stock tricks that seem to please only the judges. The half pipes are kind of limiting, if you can do a fast line down the half pipe with an excess of robotic, repetive movements, the judges score well. A large creative style movement is going on with everybody giving a personal touch of style and going out on a limb, but virtually going unrecognized at contests and into the main stream of snowboarding.
People have a hard time recognizing new creative things.
The robots are doing well and the true style creators are not getting proper recognition. Sounds like our society. I'm seeing a mirror image. There are the people with style and the people who follow and forget to use their brain. That's a good aspect to understand.