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Rippin' Riders Snowboarding, also known as Cool Boarders Burrrn (クールボーダーズ・バーン) in Japan and Snow Surfers in Europe, is a snowboard game developed by UEP Systems, the creators of the Cool Boarders series. It was released in 1999 for the Dreamcast.
K2 Sports, LLC, known simply as K2, is an American sporting goods company headquartered in Seattle, Washington focused primarily on winter sports equipment. K2 operates under the labels K2 Snow and K2 Skates, as well as its subsidiaries Backcountry Access, Ride Snowboards, Tubbs Snowshoes, Atlas Snow-Shoe Company, LINE Skis, Full Tilt Boots, and Madshus brands. [1]
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. A native of New York, he grew up in Cedarhurst, New York. [2]
Diagram of a Snowboard and its various elements that affect sizing. The bottom or 'base' of the snowboard is generally made of UHMW and is surrounded by a thin strip of steel, known as the 'edge'. Artwork was primarily printed on PBT using a sublimation process in the 1990s, but poor color retention and fade after moderate use moved high-end ...
Lib Technologies is an American snowboard manufacturer known for innovative snowboard designs and construction. [1] Often referred to as Lib Tech, the company falls under the umbrella of parent company Mervin Manufacturing. Surf company Quiksilver bought Mervin in 1997. [2] As of 2013, Mervin was purchased by Altamont Capital Partners. [3]
NHS, Inc. is an American sports equipment distribution company based in Santa Cruz, California. [1] It was founded by Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, three surfer friends from Santa Cruz, California, teamed up to start NHS.
Top view of a c. 1981 Burton snowboard in museum condition. Burton Snowboards [6] was founded by Jake Burton in 1977. [4] His co-founder, Dimitrije Milovich, was an East Coast surfer and the founder of snowboard company Winterstick. [7] Their snowboards were inspired by the Snurfer, [4] which was created in 1965 by
The 2010–11 FIS Snowboard World Cup was a multi race tournament over a season for snowboarding.The season started on 10 October 2010 and ended on 27 March 2011. The World Cup was organised by the FIS which also run world cups and championships in cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined, alpine skiing, and freestyle skiing.