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Burton Snowboards [6] was founded by Jake Burton in 1977. [4] His co-founder, Dimitrije Milovich, was an East Coast surfer and the founder of snowboard company Winterstick. [7] Their snowboards were inspired by the Snurfer, [4] which was created in 1965 by Sherman Poppen. In 1977, Burton moved to Londonderry, Vermont, where he made the first ...
Jake Burton Carpenter (April 29, 1954 – November 20, 2019), occasionally also known as Jake Burton or Jakie, was an American snowboarder, founder of Burton Snowboards, and one of the inventors of the modern day snowboard. A native of New York, he grew up in Cedarhurst, New York. [2]
Snowskate (Snowdeck) – "Burton Junkyard" A snowskate is a snow sliding device which can be described as a hybrid of a snowboard , and a skateboard . Unlike a snowboard which uses bindings to secure the board to a riders feet, a snowskate is typically bindingless.
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The Craig Kelly World Snowboard Camp was created to help kids improve their snowboarding skills. From 1988 to 1992 it was located in Whistler Blackcomb. Kelly was responsible for the design and development of the following Burton signature models: The Mystery Air, The Craig Kelly Air, The CK Slopestyle, The Cascade, and The Omen.
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 ...