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[edit] Antisocial?

I do not believe that these sports can be considered antisocial. There are numerous ski, snowboard, and mountain bike teams that contain about 10-15 people; They contain coaches, organizations, etc. They are just as competitive as any other sport. Just take a look at the X-Games.

Read here about one of the ski/snowboard teams in America: http://www.snowshoemtn.com/mountain/win-mountain/ski_board_teams/index.htm

They meet regularly as a team, they have coaches like a team, they travel like a team, and have jerseys like a team. However, in order to be good enough to join that team, a great amount of individual work must be made by the rider.

US Snowboarding team link: http://www.ussnowboarding.org/public/

And for skateboarding, biking, etc., there are, indeed, teams. These teams are generally run by companies that create the equipment.

Examples:

http://www.ziplink.net/users/roces/ (Roces Aggressive Skate Team)

http://www.trekbikes.com/trekracing/vw/index.jsp (Trek VW Team)

http://www.2sk8usa.com/Team.htm (Skateboard team)

There is a team for these individual sports.

Therefore, it cannot be defined as antisocial.