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3 unusual facts about Snowboarding


Boardsport

;Snowboarding (1977) :A cross between skateboarding and skiing, the board medium is snow, although the condition of the snow can have a major impact on snowboarding style and technique.

Mathieu Crépel

During the big air he became the first ever person to land a switch backside 12 in competition.

Snowboarding at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

Snowboarding at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is held at the Clăbucet Sosire (Arrival) slope in Predeal, Romania from 19 to 22 February 2013.


Amped 2

Amped 2 features 14 top snowboarding pros, including Jeremy Jones, Mikey LeBlanc, Travis Parker, and Janna Meyen.

Beiuș

Available or popular sports in or around Beiuş are: fresh water fishing (trout, catfish, carp, barbel chub dace and at least a dozen other edible species), speleology (spelunking), soccer (Sunday soccer is a local ritual for all ages), skiing, snowboarding, sledding, tennis, hiking, camping, backpacking and rock climbing.

Bonfire Pipe to Pipe

Pipe to Pipe is a snowboard and skateboard contest sponsored by Bonfire Snowboarding and Windells Snowboard Camp.

Bowser and Blue

Their material ranges from absurdist humour ("I've Got a Great Big Dick", "Canadian Psychedelic Snowboarding Team", "I'm in Like with a Dyke Named Spike") to pointed political and cultural satire ("You Should Speak French", "Driving in Quebec", "Bouchard's Speech", "Clinton's Thing", "Rappin' Rambo").

CADS

Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing, an organization assisting individuals with a disability to participate in recreational and competitive snow skiing and snowboarding.

Carrabassett Valley Academy

Jeremy Jones, eight-time Snowboard Magazine Big Mountain Rider of the Year, also honed his snowboarding and academic skills at Carrabassett Valley Academy.

Colorado–Colorado Springs Mountain Lions

Snowboarding, skiing, rock climbing, bouldering, hiking, mountain biking, trail running, and lesser common slack roping and 4-wheeling are popular student activities at UCCS due to the proximity to Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, and the surrounding mountainous terrain.

Danny Kass

Kass and his brother Matt Kass were the founders of Grenade Gloves, which specializes in snowboarding gloves, accessories, and other extreme sporting gear.

FIS Snowboarding World Championships 1996

The FIS Snowboarding World Championships 1996 took place between January 24th and January 28th in Lienz, Austria.

Golden Secondary School

Courses include things such as skiing and snowboarding on the beautiful Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, mountain biking on many trails around Golden and the school also hosts many bantam and senior basketball, volleyball and soccer teams, and Boggle tournaments.

Jake Shields

Their activities included mountain biking, wild caving, snowboarding, clearing brush, bucking firewood, climbing mountains, exploring the high country, and wrestling.

Jonathan Cheever

In 2011, he was named the U.S. snowboarding champion and took two World Cup 2nd place finishes at Stoneham Mountain Resort in Quebec and Chiesa in Valmalenco in Italy.

Lifestyle brand

Burton has built its lifestyle brand by drawing on the snowboarding subculture and Quiksilver has done the same with the surfing community.

Louie Vito

In his teenage years, he moved to Vermont to pursue his love of snowboarding by enrolling in the respected Stratton Mountain School - a ski and snowboarding academy.

Mason Aguirre

He turned pro at fifteen and his parents moved their family to Mammoth Lakes, California to pursue his snowboarding career.

Radiance Digital Entertainment

During his 23 years in game industry, Singman's works include Astrology Fortune-Teller, Sony ISO Formatter, JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL, Super Puzzle Fighter, Final Fight EX, Tang Chi, TEST DRIVE OFF ROAD series, Big Air Snowboarding, Loony Tunes Racing, Puzz Loop, The Sign, The Age, Magical Land, Crazy Kart, Beach Volleyball Online, GoGoRacer Online and so on.

RBC Olympians

Dominique Maltais, Snowboarding (Snowboard Cross), Bronze Medal: 2006 Winter Olympic Games (Torino), Gold Medal: 2006 World Cup (Austria)

Ross Powers

Powers is the Director of the Snowboarding program at the Stratton Mountain School and currently(2010–present) resides in Stratton, Vermont, with his wife Marisa and daughters, Victoria and Meredith.

Ross Powers (born February 10, 1979), is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont.

Salomon Snowboards

Salomon has a history of supporting innovative video projects in snowboarding including the Robot Food films, TransWorld Snowboarding’s film Get Real, Absinthe Films, Videograss, and Mack Dawg Productions.

Shred 2

Shred 2: Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts is a snowboarding film and a sequel to Shred that stars Tom Green and was filmed at Big White Ski Resort in British Columbia, Canada.

Siberian Federal University

Svetlana Boldykova, Master of Sports of International Level in snowboarding, silver champion of world cups, silver champion of the Universiade;

Sinn Sage

In April 2009, a snowboarding accident in Whistler, British Columbia caused a serious head injury which led to brain surgery and a medically induced coma.

Skoarding

Whilst switching their snowboards for fats skis Simon Wilkinson and Leon Baker discovered that after many years snowboarding that placing two skis on in the usual fashion but still "riding" in the same style that they have always been accustomed to should in fact be called something completely new.

Stoked Rider

It features the Austrian snowboarding legend Tommy Brunner who died two weeks after the release of the game.

Stratton Mountain School

Ross Powers ('97) won a bronze medal (snowboarding halfpipe) at the 1998 winter games held in Nagano, Japan, and a gold medal at the 2002 games held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Tom Sims

Sims was the primary snowboarding stunt double for "007" (Roger Moore) in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, which helped popularize both the snowboard and its usage.

Tommy Brunner

Tommy Brunner (born 1970 in Innsbruck; died 21 April 2006 in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada) was an Austrian big mountain snowboarding legend.

Transworld Snowboarding

In 2002, Atari/Infogrames released a video game for the Xbox console under the name Transworld Snowboarding developed by Housemarque.


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