How to support snowboard development?
The first snowboard profile - the traditional camber - came from ski, but since then some snowboard brands developed a lot more types of profiles as well as edge technologies (not to speak about the influence snowboard had on ski itself, we're just here for snowboard gear:) that since then, some of them, have been adopted by the ski industry.
So if you want to help your favorite sport evolve and have more and more fun with it, a great way of doing it is by supporting "true" snowboard brands and shops (mostly local specialized shops that only, or mainly, sell "true" snowboard brands). It's not easy if you don't know the brands, try to read about them before buying, We plan on making that info available, stay sharp.