SNOWBOARD HISTORY
History of snowboarding has been recognized as only about thirty years.
It is hard to determine who the inventor of snowboarding is. Though it is said that people had already been riding on one snowboard on snow slope since the 1800s, the history of snowboarding that is most commonly held is "snowsurfing" developed in Utah, U.S.A in 1965. It involved going down hills with surfboards functioning as skis, while the hills had fins. It was different from the way people snowboard today due to the fact that the board itself didn't have any binding. For this reason, some people don't consider the history of snowboarding to be as far back as here. In those days, snowboarding had not been appreciated widely, and in fact, people were not allowed to snowboard on many hills around the world. Moreover, ski companies did not support snowboarding because it was merely viewed as a fad.
By 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter, who used to be an enthusiastic skier, founded Burton Snowboard Co., which was the first snowboard company ever. After a couple of years, Dimitrije Milovich, recognized as a very important person of snowboard history, started making snowboards. His company was called "Winterstick" and his work was in those magazines, such as "Playboy", "Newsweek", and "Powder" coupled with the increasing popularity of snowboarding. In 1982, the very first National Snowboard race took place in Vermont. "Absolutely Radical", the first snowboarding magazine, was published in 1985
These events boosted the popularity of the sport. Snowboarding is now a multi-million dollar industry. Today, Dynaster and Solomon, which used to be ski companies, have become snowboard companies. Since snowboarding is adopted as a sporting event of the Olympics, it is attracting many new fans. This was a dramatical moment in snowboard history.
Nowadays, you see more snowboarders than skiers at some mountains.