Snowboarding:
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Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard attached to a participant’s feet… more>> |
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| “Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard attached to a participant’s feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding. It is similar to skiing, but inspired by surfing and skateboarding. The sport was developed in the United States in the 1960s and the 1970s and became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998.” {read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowboarding} ——- “The first modern snowboard was arguably the Snurfer (a portmanteau of snow and surfer), originally designed by Sherman Poppen for his children in 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan. Poppen’s Snurfer started to be manufactured as a toy the following year. It was essentially a skateboard without wheels, steered by a hand-held rope. During the 1970s and 1980s as snowboarding became more popular, true pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich, Jake Burton (founder of Burton Snowboards from Londonderry, Vermont), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards) and Mike Olson (GNU Snowboards) came up with new designs for boards and machineries that had slowly developed into the snowboards and other related equipment that we know today.” {read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowboarding} |
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