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2. Burton Snowboards - Wikipedia

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   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 Sherman Poppen. In 1977, Burton moved to Londonderry, Vermont, where he made the first ...

3. 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. A native of New York, he grew up in Cedarhurst, New York. [2]

4. 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.

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6. 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 ...

7. Jim Rippey - Wikipedia

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   For the 1998 Winter Olympics, Rippey was a Play-by-play announcer for the snowboarding competitions. Ripley's Believe It or Not! (TV series) Himself – Episode #4.10 (2003) I Know What You Did Last Winter (video short) Himself (1998) Snowriders II (documentary) Himself (1997) Black Diamond Rush (documentary) Himself (1993) [3]