Snowboarding is a winter sport that involves descending a slope that is covered

with snow while standing on a board attached to a rider's feet, using a special
boot set onto a mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired
by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the United
States in the 1960s to 1970s and became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998. In
2002 competitive snowboarders formed the World Snowboard Tour.
History

Snowboarding has been around since the 1920s, when boys and men would tie plywood or
wooden planks from barrels to their feet using clotheslines and horse reins in order to steer
themselves down hills. Modern snowboarding began in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an
engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughter by fastening two skis
together and attaching a rope to one end so she would have some control as she stood on the
board and glided downhill. Dubbed the "snurfer" (combining snow and surfer), the toy proved
so popular among his daughter's friends that Poppen licensed the idea to a manufacturer that
sold about a million snurfers over the next decade. And, in 1966 alone over half a million
snurfers were sold.[2]
In the early 1970s, Poppen organized snurfing competitions at a Michigan ski resort that
attracted enthusiasts from all over the country. One of those early pioneers was Tom Sims, a
devotee of skateboarding (a sport born in the 1950s when kids attached roller skate wheels to
small boards that they steered by shifting their weight). As an eighth grader in Haddonfield,
New Jersey, in the 1960s, Sims crafted a snowboard in his school shop class by gluing carpet
to the top of a piece of wood and attaching aluminum sheeting to the bottom. He produced
commercial snowboards in the mid 70's. During this same time, Dimitrije Milovichan
American surfing enthusiast who had also enjoyed sliding down snowy hills on cafeteria trays
during his college years in upstate New Yorkconstructed a snowboard called "Winterstick,"
inspired by the design and feel of a surfboard. Articles about his invention in such mainstream
magazines as Newsweek helped publicize the young sport.
An excellent year for snowboarding was 2004 with 6.6 million participants.[11] An industry
spokesman said that "twelve year-olds are out-riding adults." The same article said that most
snowboarders are 1824 years old and that females constitute 25% of participants. Now,
entering the second decade of the 2000s, snowboarding continues to increase in popularity
among all demographic regimes regardless of age, sex, or ability levels.

Jibbing

Jib is both a noun and a verb, depending on the usage of the word. As a noun: a
jib includes metal rails, boxes, benches, concrete ledges, walls, vehicles, rocks
and logs. As a verb: to jib is referring to the action of jumping, sliding or riding on
top of objects other than snow. [12] It is directly influenced by grinding a
skateboard. Jibbing is a freestyle snowboarding technique of riding.Typically
jibbing occurs in a snowboard resort park but can also be done in urban
environments.
Freeriding

To master freeriding is to seamlessly merge aspects of other snowboarding disciplines such as

freestyle and alpine snowboarding into an all-around style - giving you the freedom to make
the most of whatever terrain comes your way. Whereas freestyle snowboarding relies on the
use of man-made terrain such as jumps, rails and half-pipes, and alpine snowboarding is done
on groomed snow - the focus of freeriding is on utilising the random flow of natural terrain.
Freestyle

In freestyle, the rider utilizes man-made installations such as rails, jumps, boxes, and
innumerable other innovative features to perform tricks such as downed trees or boulders. The
term "box" refers to an object with a slick top, usually of polyethylene(HDPE), that the rider
can slide on with the base of their board. Like all freestyle features, boxes come in a variety of
shapes, sizes, and difficulty levels. The intent of freestyle is to use these features to perform a
number of aerial or jib tricks. The term "jib" refers to the rider doing a slide or press on an
object not made of snow. This most commonly refers to tricks done on boxes, rails, or even
trees.
Freecarve

Similar to skiing, this race and slalom focused style is still practiced, though infrequently.
Sometimes called alpine snowboarding, or the 'euro-carve', freecarving takes place on hard
packed snow or groomed runs and focuses on the ultimate carving turn, much like traditional
skiing. Little or no jumping takes place in this discipline. Freecarve equipment is a ski-like
hardshell boot and plate binding system with a true directional snowboard that is usually very
stiff and narrow to facilitate fast and responsive turns. Shaped skis can thank these "freecarve"
snowboards for the cutting-edge technology leading to their creation.