As seen within the rise of snowboarding in the US this influx in ski technology spurred a Cultural Revolution amongst skiing participants and the jargon of that revolutionary group will in short be examined herein.Įveryone wants to be associated with an in group and separate themselves from other groups through some form of prestige. With one company pioneering the Freestyle aspect of the sport and several large conglomerate corporations literally creating the new shape of skiing, the sport as the world knew it went through more changes in the last ten years than in the hundred years prior. With the popularity of skiing as a sport drastically waning due to the on-hill take over of snowboarding in the 90’s the ski industry was forced to drastically rethink their sports future and this meant new technology and a new image.
Since Line Skis made the first twintipped ski in 1995 what started as a ripple of innovation has become a cultural tidal wave of New School skiing all over the world. Give me some feedback and I think you'll get a kick out of it if you're fairly educated.
It was really fun to write and it's pretty long and nerdy as a post but I told my professor about NS and how I was posting it on here to get reponse from the native speakers of this dialect.
This is a report I did for my Linguistic Antrhopology class at UC Davis on the dialect we skiers speak on and off the hill.
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