Nicolas Müller. Photo: Andy Wright | Print Available For Purchase (here)
From my seasoned professional and personal perspective, snowboarding’s moral compass is broke. Its semblance of existing media has been in a state of stupor (with notable exceptions), a struggling industry in part its own doing; of a fractured community predominantly forward leaning left into its political ideology; swallowing up narratives of the day, then letting such fodder fester and rot, polarizing its peoples; discounting the revered legacy of its contributive benefactors, all this within something so truly special — where politics should have no quarter.
Let’s be keenly and quite clear: It’s because of those individually and collectively involved, accounted for and assembled rippers, riders, rebels, revelers, and outliers, that has shaped and made the shred scene pretty sweet. The multitude and magnitude of their talents, styles, voices, perspectives and personalities: legends, ladies and gents; lackeys, pros, man-ams, kids on the come-up, are of an inherent and innate quality that compelled so many of us to strap in, bound steadfast, and is an inspired draw for plenty of others new to this pursued form of snow play.
However, in this modern era: Are we now a community that values conformity over free thought and its expression, or one that is brave enough to own its faults and admit when it was wrong … ?
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