The history of snowboarding.
The birth of snowboarding - snow board - has been truly revolutionary role in the development of an active winter recreation. If the downhill skiing has always maintained the reputation of the traditional sport of leisure for the few, the snowboarding was famous for its innovative zamashkami and democratic spirit. Classes downhill skiing has always demanded of its adherents multi uporstvovany to achieve the goal, snowboarding is glorified promises of easy victories. Quickly got on board, went easy on it and, most importantly, quickly got the pleasure - this is such an emerging pattern of relationships snowboarding and its holder. Among skiers strictly adhered to strict laws and acted in certain rules, and snowboarders, the amendment, all canons of civilized ride on the highway, proclaimed full freedom of movement, bordering on lawlessness. Okay, and could that have stoned. Snowboard immediately acquired the image of entertainment for young and advanced, while the mountainous ski has the image of the status of rest. Snowboarders quickly occupied the leading ski resorts. It is predicted that soon the number of people around the world, ride a snowboard is 5 million. Today in snoubordicheskoy industry operates about 300 firms.By the end of the twentieth century has become a base plate assembly of most newfangled entertainment. By the board pridelali sail and began glissirovat the waves - there wind surfing. Having parachute canopy, on the board come from the helicopter and jump into free fall simulate sliding - was born on sky-surfing. For the board to tie shaped wheels, and outdoor sports culture - skateboarding. And most recently appeared Wakeboarding - skating on the board for towing boats. Of course, doskomaniya could not reach the snow and the mountain slopes. Snowboarding can be a great sporting and entertainment invention of modern times.
To be precise, the real history of snowboarding has the strength of three desyateletiya. Then running from the mountains to use a broad lyzhu, along with the two.
At the ski resorts of today snowboarders with the scandal broke. Fans mountain skis, whose infinite power for many years before all the world's mountain trails, close does not want. In snowboarders saw a real threat to classic rock foundations. At the famous western resorts with snowboarders trying to cope in different ways. They are forbidden to use the lifts. They were forbidden to ride on civilized lines, as they announced the highest adrenaline kaif skiing trails outside. War is no effect, as this is in any well-known ski resort, the balance of power between the skiers and snowboarders 50 to 50. Moreover, the tendency of growth - in favor of snowboarders. Among the fans of mountain rest went this saying: "All watched skiers who try skiing snowboarding, left their skis, but snowboarders are not known to anyone who would want to get back on skis."
People in the snow boards are called Ryder, snowboarders, Boarders. They wear clothes "san size (without size) and" uni-sex "(without the obvious sexual ralichy). They listen to hardcore and punk rock. They dance to hip-hop and rave. They communicate interjections approving, recommending kataniyayu taught on the blackboard read: "We turn left, shouts -" Wow! ", Turn right, and declares" YES! ". They are very friendly.
But snowboarding - is not only fun for otvyaznyh, and professional sports. It is generally believed that the history of snowboarding as the sport stems from the mid sixties. Then a young athlete, surfer Sherman Poppe, passed the disease on the summer competitive season, so zatoskoval the free-slip, which has invented a kind of winter surf. His invention became known as "snerf. On this board, the leading leg is inserted into the strap and the rear pristavlyalas freely. Poppe later organized the first mass production of snerfov. Usual we face today, snowboarding has become in the early seventies. American Dmitry Milovich in Utah issued a snow board out of wood with iron piping. And in 1977 in Vermont (USA), Jake Burton started serial production of snow boards and their active promotion.
Whatever the case, but in 70 years in Russia and in America at the same time, the first craftsmen, known to bind to the self-mounting plate without the strings and handle to maintain balance. So there snerfer - ancestor of modern snowboarding.
In 1979 - snowboarding, as a newfangled projectile to hit the television screens. American snowboarders Poul Greyvs shot in the advertisement of beer "La Batt". And in 1981 he organized the first open competition on the U.S. snowboard. It happened in Woodstock. In the eighties the European kinoekran begin to use the snowboard. Thus, the French rider R?gis Roland was in the movie "Apocalypse." The other snowboarders, Tom Sims took part in the film "Fire and Ice." In 1985 he published the first illustrated book on snowboarding. In the same year in Canada are international competitions for snow-boarding, in which snowboarders meet for the first time the U.S. and Europe. In the early 90's formed the International Snowboarding Federation (ISF), which brings together snoubordicheskie Association of Europe, Asia and America. That she still holds the annual World Championships, consisting of the stages taking place in all continents. And in 1998, snowboarding, and even became an Olympic sport.