Oooo! The next "this will save rally" is almost here!

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Each February I experience the unrestrained joy of attending the ski and snowboard trade show in Denver. Here's what I see when I walk the snowboard section: Underage snowboarders puking in the corridors after one too many keg stands-at 10 a.m. And overseeing all this fabricated youthfulness? Fifty-year-old white dudes in flat-brim caps, tight jeans, and designer flannel. Chuckleheads. Leveraging snowboarding's rebel cred, they modeled its image on skateboarding and aimed it almost entirely at teenagers.

That worked great for a while. Then snowboarding went mainstream-the X Games, Mountain Dew ads, Shaun White-and, inevitably, it lost a bit of its mojo. The first generation of riders got real jobs and started having kids, and snowboarding's image never matured to accommodate them.

As snowboarding went narrow, skiing went big. Today's skiers can choose to carve turns, launch off the slopestyle jumps, hammer bumps, navigate steeps, tour the backcountry, rip bottomless pow, race in a beer league, or just go skiing like a vacationer from Chicago or Boca Friggin' Raton. It's cool; there's a place for you and a group of likeminded folks who would love to have you. Cooler still if you're a lifelong enthusiast? Dabble in all the above. Skiing isn't golf; there's always some new adventure waiting for you.

But industrialized snowboarding hates diversity.

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modernbeat
This article is about snowboarding vs skiing, but I think a lot of us will be able to see some parallels with rally as it is portrayed today.

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/skiing-and-snowboarding/snowboarding/Snowboarding-Is-Screwed.html

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Each February I experience the unrestrained joy of attending the ski and snowboard trade show in Denver. Here's what I see when I walk the snowboard section: Underage snowboarders puking in the corridors after one too many keg stands-at 10 a.m. And overseeing all this fabricated youthfulness? Fifty-year-old white dudes in flat-brim caps, tight jeans, and designer flannel. Chuckleheads. Leveraging snowboarding's rebel cred, they modeled its image on skateboarding and aimed it almost entirely at teenagers.

That worked great for a while. Then snowboarding went mainstream-the X Games, Mountain Dew ads, Shaun White-and, inevitably, it lost a bit of its mojo. The first generation of riders got real jobs and started having kids, and snowboarding's image never matured to accommodate them.

As snowboarding went narrow, skiing went big. Today's skiers can choose to carve turns, launch off the slopestyle jumps, hammer bumps, navigate steeps, tour the backcountry, rip bottomless pow, race in a beer league, or just go skiing like a vacationer from Chicago or Boca Friggin' Raton. It's cool; there's a place for you and a group of likeminded folks who would love to have you. Cooler still if you're a lifelong enthusiast? Dabble in all the above. Skiing isn't golf; there's always some new adventure waiting for you.

But industrialized snowboarding hates diversity.

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Gary Hansen from Facebook4 hours ago

FUCK YOU OUTSIDE MAGAZINE, your shit (PUBLICATION & MEDIA PRESENCE) is gay (SO FAR WHACKED ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO RANK ON ANY SCALE) All of your staff writers are from connecticut or fucking south carolina. Get a clue! We hate you hater types anyway.... ALWAYS HAVE. Don't worry, In my 28 years of being someone who enjoys the outdoors I have never once seen your crew, staff or marketing in the OUTSIDE. Your magazine is a complete toilet fodder- whitewashed farce of an attempt to communicate with the outdoor industry. Your like that guy that you are following on facebook just to see how stupid the next thing one of your highly qualified writers says! I am unfollowing forever.. You OUTSIDE MAGAZINE are a complete bunch of douchewaffle barneys. PLease stay away from the mountains I frequent!

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john vanlandingham

Where can I buy a oversized flat brim Reb-Dull hat?

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Iowa999
Why am I humming a Billy Idol song with slight slurred lyrics? ("With a Reb Dull yell, she cried 'more, more, more...." Must be the Laphroaig. I hate Billy Idol.

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fiasco
Scotch!

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fiasco
Scotch will save Rally!

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danster

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fiasco
Scotch!

Did someone just summons a haggis muncher?

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fiasco
Scotch will save Rally!

What's all this? Ain't no way my Scottish butt is going to manage that.

Oh, OK then, I'll try......... Rallyracing has got too expensive with the cost of car preparation, so to make the sport financially accessible to more people I hereby say you can run any car you want and the only rules it need abide by are the installation of these.

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fiasco
NBC Sports will save rally! If they have Laphroaig sponsorship...

http://rally-america.com/news/entry/2014-rally-america-national-championship-to-air-on-nbc-sports-network