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Burton Snowboards is a privately-owned snowboard manufacturing company that was founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company specializes in products aimed at snowboarders , such as snowboards, bindings , boots , outerwear, and accessories.
It is widely accepted that Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards) [4] and/or Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards) invented modern snowboarding by introducing bindings and steel edges to snowboards in the late 1970s. Sims was an avid skateboarder in 1963 when he built a crude “ski board” in his seventh-grade wood shop class in ...
Before 2006, Voile was the leading splitboarding company which sold the early track system binding that was a precursor to the modern style split specific binding and puck systems. [11] Since 2006 much lighter weight metals and plastics have been introduced into the binding systems creating a more responsive and durable split board binding.
In the case of a binding release, the cable prevented the ski from running away down the hill, a task normally accomplished with a ski brake. The spring would then automatically pull the ski back to the user and, if properly aligned, reconnect it. [2] [3] [5] The system, like all plate bindings, had a number of disadvantages.
Snowboard boot bindings are normally screwed onto the snowboard in a permanent orientation which is almost perpendicular to the direction of travel of the snowboard. When a snowboarder reaches the bottom of a run, the rear boot is typically released from its binding to allow the snowboarder to propel himself forward across relatively flat snow.
By 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter, an avid competitive snurfer, began developing an improved model without the rope and with the addition of rigid bindings for ski boots to the board. As more resorts began allowing snowboards on their ski lifts, the popularity of the snurfer waned. Poppen took up snowboarding at the age of 67.