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here's a serious answer.
the way the company itself markets on its website turns me off enough to look around for a competitor's product if i was in the market for something like those.
personally, i feel companies that use variations of "extreme" or "x-treme" or a bootleg copy of the x-games logo like this one did are condescending to my demographic and pander to the type of people who do sports like snowboarding or fmx or skiing because they like to talk about how radical they are at parties.
using "extreme" to attract the 12-34 actions sports demographic has far outlasted its usefullness due to saturation of the concept in the market. it has become very transparent and most people in that demographic have been exposed to advertising campaigns long enough to be savvy to the fact they are being treated like idiots.
for god sakes now even doritos are extreme. how good of a company can something like this be for action sports if the only way the company can market itself is the same way doritos and capri sun and american express and chapstick and wal mart childrens bikes and hundreds of other products do.
even companies entrenched in the action sports world who could feasably use "extreme" without irony are feeling backlash to the concept. companies like burton are having to use even more counterculture approaches to their marketing like that poaching contest this past winter to escape being lumped in with all the other psuedo extreme marketing ploys.
i think that a bunch of the above posters who called them gaper pants or asked if you needed vagisil were feeling the same way i do too, they just had a little more hate in their hearts.
fuck rails, just wait till you hip check a rock and break your femur, fuckin idiot. pads do a lot more then stop bruises, they can be the difference between a broken bone and a sore thigh.. i wouldn't call not wanting to break a bone being a pussy, i'd call it wanting to ski an entire season.
i wear mine when i big mountain ski and for urban rails..
