For a lot of people there was an intermediate step in there. Ski boards (aka ski blades) were super popular with the rollerblading crowd and suffered a similar

For a lot of people there was an intermediate step in there. Ski boards (aka ski blades) were super popular with the rollerblading crowd and suffered a similar fate as rollerblading (I remember being called a fruit booter a number of times on my ski boards). It was in the X-Games before skiing was, but they eventually just cancelled ski boarding and pretty much all the pro's went on to ski, and that was more or less the last nail in the coffin for the sport. It's actually way more dead than rollerblading, as it didn't really just move "underground". People figured out that twin tip skis were actually much better at nearly everything than little 100cm ski boards.