What Is Snowboarding, You Ask?

When a person uses a narrow board to descend down a snow covered slope this form of board-sport is called snowboarding. Though very like skiing, it is inspired by surfing as well as skateboarding and the sport was developed in the US in the ‘60s and 70s and reached culmination when it became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998.The snowboard was the handiwork of people like Sherman Poppen, Chuck Barfoot, Dimitri Mitrovitch, Tom Sims as well as Jake Burton Carpenter. Burton Snowboards, which is one of the largest and better known snowboard companies in the world, was founded by Jake Burton Carpenter.