Surfing’s World Championship Tour or as it’s often known, ‘The Dream Tour’, is action sports’ example of best practice in this field. 34 of the world’s best surfers – including almost all the big names – travel to ten of the world’s best waves, each of which demands a different skill set to surf successfully. In contrast, snowboarding has gone in the opposite direction. Wherever you are in the world, you know what slopestyle courses are going to look like: three rails into three kickers. Where is the creative challenge in this? It’s rote learning, nothing more than figureboarding.

In my opinion, the answer is to build snowboarding’s own dream tour: eight events around the world that cover all types of terrain. Travis Rice’s Super/Ultra Natural in BC; trees in Japan; pipe in Laax; banked slalom in Baker; slopestyle in Mammoth; street in Helsinki; freeriding in Utah; big mountain in Alaska. You pick the twenty best riders who sign contracts for the entire tour alongside four young gun, legend or injury wild cards for each event. It gives you continuity with the riders – something that is woefully lacking at the moment – and it revives the core values of the sport so you can begin to build stories around the event’s heritage. This in turn gives the event value, because people start to care about winning the way did about Air+Style up to the early 2000s. But most importantly it can give us back our legends; a more diverse tour could see the likes of Travis, Gigi, Nicolas Müller, Eric and John Jackson, Forest Bailey, Mathieu Crepel and Halldor consider returning to the competitive arena.