Technology:

Technology is important, especially in snowboards. Well, that's not entirely true. The wooden planks with rubber straps and a rope people used 30 years ago seemed to work fine, althrough we doubt someone would be able to float a backside 180 over a 90 foot jump on one of those things (we'd like to see that!), so let's just say that technology is important for evolved snowboards. We like to think that a snowboard without technology is like a pizza without toppings. It's still somewhat of a pizza, but it would be WAY better with cheese, tomatoes, salmon (we have a fanatic taste for salmon, what of it?), spicy peppers, and olives. Right?