Sports Report: 12 Reasons to Love Skiing and Snowboarding

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2 Snowboarding Started with a New Invention added a rope to the front so he could pull and steer his new toy Then he and his children stood on the skis and surfed down a snowy hill Poppen’s wife called the new toy the Snurfer Sherman Poppen 2011 Unlike skiing snowboarding is a fairly new sport It was created in 1965 That’s when a man named Sherman Poppen came up with a new idea for his children’s Christmas present In 1972 Dimitrije Milovich created the modern snowboard He founded a company called Winterstick Later other inventors started their own companies Poppen fastened two skis together He 6 Many ski resorts did not like snowboarding But as