Snowboarding

There are many people who are interested in various strange, dangerous, crazy, extreme sports. Certainly there is lot of that kind of sports which are extreme enough for those people. We could mention skateboarding, alpinism, parachuting, scuba-diving, etc. And of course, a quite new sport which had its birth only in the last century – snowboarding. Now doubt, it is one of the most popular winter sports in the world.
It is hard to say who actually "invented" the first snowboard. People would have always figured out how to slide down a hill on some sled, thus it would be unfair to point out one specific person, who came up with "the first" snowboard.
There were some people, though, who built snowboard like sleds before. One of them was M.J. "Jack" Burchett. He cut out a plank of plywood in 1929 and tried to secure his feet with some clothesline and horse reins. This man came up with one of the first "snowboards". In 1965 Sherman Poppen, a chemical gases engineer in Muskegon, invented "The Snurfer" (his wife came up with the name) as a toy for his daughter. He made the Snurfer by bounding two skis together and putting a rope at the nose, so the rider could hold it and keep it more stable. Dimitrije Milovich started making snowboards in 1969. After sliding down some hills he came up with the idea. His boards were based on surfboards combined with the way skis work. In 1972 Milovich started a new company called "Winterstick". Tom Sims produced his first snowboards in 1977. Being obsessed with skateboarding, Sims tried to go out in the snow and slide down the...

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