Yes. Depends on whether you call boards like the Sprint a dugout. Full-on clogs are not that popular with most of the top elite racers for general international traveling and racing, because of their drawbacks. So I don’t see why SIC should worry about not having one, too much. The market for raceboards is tiny. The market for clogs must be minuscule - would the average Joe occasional racers want one? I doubt it.
I’m sure the ICF would love everyone to have one though. If they get the Olympics it will probably be written into the regs!
I should think that Mark and BIC are more concerned about whether their inflatables can compete with the cheap Chinese offerings appearing on eBay etc. That’s where the sales are, worldwide. If race boards are mainly just marketing tools these days - maybe even loss-leaders - then dugouts do not look good in the marketing blurb. They look ungainly and make the rider look weird too. This isn’t going to work for marketing purposes. You need a *board*, in the surf, or in a pristine blue flat water environment, with a bikini-clad long-legged model on board. You are not going to want a pic of a girl standing inside a bath tub that makes it look like her legs are 1ft long
Clogs may be effective in some conditions. But they sure are UGLY in all conditions. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be that way, if UL designs were allowed. But they aren’t.
