Totally understand and agree with ya for the most part. I just kind of contrast it with wakeboarding, where it seems competitions are at risk of diminishing, and athletes are desiring more support, where snowboarding was in the same situation years ago. Now they won't ride the local/domestic comp because it's 4 ft shorter..... Imagine if the IWWF comps became more important than the WWA comps in wakeboarding... Especially with it being in most of the riders' backyard..
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