- Andy Irons Remembered 4 Years Later
- Peru Wins First Gold Medal in ISA World Surfing Games
- Little Skater Girl is a Huge Inspiration
- Nate Yeomans Wins $50,000 Sponsorship from O’Neill
- HIC Pro Kicks Off Hawaiian Surfing Season
- Burton Presents … Mark Sollors And Alek Oestreng Ripping
- Meet the One-Legged Skateboarder
- Surf Legend Doc Paskowitz Slips into Coma
- Surfers Survive Croc Attack in Costa Rica
- Vasco Ribeiro Crowned ASP World Jr. Champion
How Snowboarding was ALMOST called Snurfing
Before snowboarding came along, there was snurfing. As the story goes, Sherman Poppen was living in the Great Lakes area and developed the first surfboard type thing for the snow in the mid 1960s. He built one for his kids using two 36-inch skis with a little leather strap over the top of them that kids could slide their boots into. His kids liked surfing on the snow and his wife later coined the activity as “snurfing.” After working out additional kinks in the design he sold the concept the Brunswick in 1970 who went on to sell a million units. By 1970 more than a million “snurfers” had been sold. By 1977 there was a snurfing contest and one of the competitors was a man called Jake Burton Carpenter, who was competing on his own board. He called his boards “snurfers.” Sherman didn’t like that one bit and so he filed a lawsuit against Burton, who then changed the name of his boards to Burton Snowboards and the rest is snowboarding history. Snowboards took over, everyone forgot that snurfers even existed and that’s that. That’s how snowboarding was almost called snurfboarding.
