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2. Burton Snowboards - Wikipedia

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   Burton Snowboards is a privately-owned snowboard manufacturing company that was founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company specializes in products aimed at snowboarders , such as snowboards, bindings , boots , outerwear, and accessories.

3. Snowboard - Wikipedia

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   It is widely accepted that Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards) [4] and/or Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards) invented modern snowboarding by introducing bindings and steel edges to snowboards in the late 1970s. Sims was an avid skateboarder in 1963 when he built a crude “ski board” in his seventh-grade wood shop class in ...

4. Snowskate - Wikipedia

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   Snowskate (Snowdeck) – "Burton Junkyard" A snowskate is a snow sliding device which can be described as a hybrid of a snowboard, and a skateboard. Unlike a snowboard which uses bindings to secure the board to a riders feet, a snowskate is typically bindingless.

5. Snowboarding - Wikipedia

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   Snowboarding in Valfréjus, France Snowboarder riding off of a cornice Freeride snowboarding, in areas off of the main trails. The first snowboards were developed in 1965 when Sherm Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so he would have some control as they stood on the board and glided downhill.

6. Splitboard - Wikipedia

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   A splitboard is a snowboard that can be separated into two ski-like parts used with climbing skins to ascend slopes in the same way as alpine touring or telemark skis. The main difference is that a splitboard will have an additional metal edge (down the center of the board) for extra grip in ski mode.

7. Jake Burton Carpenter - Wikipedia

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   Jake Burton Carpenter (April 29, 1954 – November 20, 2019), occasionally also known as Jake Burton or Jakie, was an American snowboarder, founder of Burton Snowboards, and one of the inventors of the modern day snowboard.