Snowboarding History

As the excitement of fall winds down, many pile fall into a depression. The leaves are gone, the woods are desolate, and the chill of winter air has crept upon us. While around people find this sad, I find it exciting Why? Because it is time for my favorite athletic competition, snowboarding. Snowboardings a modern, challenging disport thats attracting new fans from all around the world. It has really changed since it was graduation invented. Its exit one of the largest and fastest growing sports in the world. Everywhere, people, including myself, are waiting for the snow to get a jeopardy to go snowboarding.Snowboarding is the cross between surfing and skateboarding. Snowboarding use to be known as a nippers story, but now has evolved into a great sport. Since it was first invented, it has changed from a childs sport to a new rivalrous sport that is great for both men and women. Some people power truism snowboarding as an alternative to skateboarding, skiing, and surfing . People who could not afford to buy surfboards, like Jake Burton, used snowboarding as an alternative. Skateboarders saw snowboarding as a new sport that they could make their mark on.Nobody knows who truly invented the first snowboard. But in 1929, M. J. Jack Burchett invented one of the first snowboards. He used clothesline and horse reins to secure a piece of plyboard to his feet. Thirty years later, Sherman Poppen, a chemical gases engineer invented The Snurfer as a toy for his daughter. He do the snurfer by bounding two skis together and composeting a rope at the nose, so that the rider could progress to it and keep it stable. Poppen licensed his idea to manufacturer when his daughters friends wanted a snurfer too.In 1966, the snurfer s gray all over a half million times. In 1979, Poppen left the snowboarding business after Jake Burton came up with the bindings and went back to his old profession. Jake Burton, another inventor of the snowboard, became interested in snowbo arding after taking part in Poppens snurfer competitions that were organized by Poppen. His parents wouldnt buy him a surfboard so riding the snurfer was a new and quiet thing to do. In 1977, after he finished college, Burton moved to Londonderry, Vermont to make different types of the Snurfer.He made his first board out of laminated hardwood. In 1979, while at a Snurfer competition, Burton shocked everyone by using his new board that had the first binding. It made a big difference that allowed him to control the board and made it easier to take to task the other riders. In 1969, Dimitrije Milovich, after he got the idea from sliding down a hill on a cafeteria plate in college, started making snowboards. His snowboards were based on surfboards combined with the way skis work. In 1972, he started a new company called Winterstick.He produced lots of snowboards and even got articles in magazines like, News Week, Playboy, and place. In 1980, he left the snowboarding business, but wa s still known as a very big pioneer of the sport. At the same time that Jake Burton was producing his snowboards Tom Sims produced his first snowboards in 1977. Sims was an avid skateboarder who made a snowboard in a junior high school shop class. He made his out of rug wood and aluminum. He glued some carpet to the coronate of a piece of wood and put an aluminum sheet on the bottom.He started making snowboards in 1977 in his garage with his friend and employee Chuck Barfoot. Barfoot genuinely made the boards and came up with the Flying Yellow Banana. It was a skateboard deck on top of a plastic shell with skegs. During 1980 Sims signed a skate-snowboarding deal with a big company called visual modality Sports. Signing the deal helped Sims get out of his financial problems, but his friend Barfoot, was left out and move to go into business for himself. He couldnt compete with big competitors like Sims and Burton.The first modern competitive snowboarding battle took place in Le adville, Colorado in 1981. Then snowboarding competition took off from there and became worldwide. In 1982, the first national snowboarding race was held in Suicide Six, outside of Woodstock, Vermont. Because of the conditions of the hill, the goal of the race appeared to be in general just surviving the race. The race was on a steep icy downhill run called The present. Paul Graves put it on and Tom Simms and Jake Burton competed. Doug Bouton won first place overall.This race attach the last time that snowboards and snurfers raced together. In 1983, Jake Burton puts on the national snowboarding championships in Snow Valley. A equal of months later Tom Sims holds the inaugural World Snowboarding Championships at Soda Springs Ski Bowl in Lake Tahoe. That contest featured the first contest with a half pipe. In 1986 the World Snowboarding Championships moved from Soda Springs to Colorado. In 1986, a new European snowboarding generation launched. Then the Europeans began to organize their own regional events like the Swiss Championships in St. Moritz. In 1987, a group of riders and manufacturers formed the N. A. S. B. A. (National Association of State Boards of Accountancy) whose main goal was to create a unified World Cup tour with the Europeans. In 1988 N. A. S. B. A. got its wish and the first world cupful was held in both Europe and the United States. It was the most expensive snowboarding contest ever. In 1994 everybody was happy because snowboarding was declared a Winter Olympic sport. It was finally accepted as a real competitive sport and was first seen in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.