Beth Rally

  Why the snowboard was invented!!!    If you want to know how people overcame the problem of snowboarding in the winter you’re in the right place! There was a man named Sherman Poppens who had a son that was in eighth grade and wanted to skate 365 days a year, even on cold winter days. To help his son, Poppens came up with the snurfer. His son loved playing outside with it. Poppens knew he had made is son happy and he was very proud of it!  A lot of people love to skateboard but one problem they face is they can’t figure out how to do it in the winter, especially if they live in a place where it snows. One solution was found by a boy named Tom Sims.  Tom took a trip to California and did a lot of skateboarding there. He started to get really good and he did it all the time. When winter came he could not skateboard because of the snow and the coldness. He came up with the idea for a new board that could be used on snow, the skiboard. He started to ...

     HISTORY OF  SNOWBOARDING If you go back a long way the snowboard was actually called  "snufer". This was created by a surfer named Sherman Poppen. The snurfer was a surfboard for the snow. It went into a ceramical soon after it was made. Between 1965-1975 more than 1 million snurfers were sold for the price of $15 a piece.  Now let’s talk about some great snowboarders. Victoria Karine Ruby holds a record that no one in the snowboarding part of the olympics has yet come close to beating the record that she holds is 67 world cups. That’s crazy!! The first women event was held on the 10th of February ,a giant slalom on the snow of Mount Yakebitai. The 20-year-old French athlete won by some margin and wrote her name into the history books. Another great snowboarder is Chloe Kim.The California girl that went to the Olympics. It is a perfect, easy and oh-so-fitting description for the 17-year-old from Torrance, California. The Olympic snowboarder loves music...