Sherm Poppen, Who Invented the Snowboard Prototype for His Two Daughters, Dies at 89 Sherm Poppen put together a pair of skis in 1965, making the prototype for what would become the modern ...

Snowboarding was created in 1965 when an engineer from Michigan named Sherman Poppen invented the prototype of a snowboard. (Of course, like many inventions, others claim they invented the first ...

Burton snowboards were first invented by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977 in Burlington, Vermont, when he built a snowboard based on the Snurfer, a snow surfer invented in 1965. The first Burton ...

Sherm Poppen was simply trying to find a way to keep his daughters occupied when he invented what would one day become the snowboard at his home in Muskegon, Michigan, on Christmas Day 1965. It ...

Snowboarding was created in 1965 when an engineer from Michigan named Sherman Poppen invented the prototype of a snowboard. Of course, like many inventions, others claim they invented the first ...

While Sherman Poppen and the Snurfer were starting to enjoy popularity with kids nationwide in the 1960s, there were also others who had similar ideas and began experimenting with ...

Tom Sims, who maintains that he invented snowboarding after creating a “skiboard” in 1963, moved to California in 1970, running a skateboarding shop in Santa Barbara.

Sherm Poppen was simply trying to find a way to keep his daughters occupied when he invented what would one day become the snowboard at his home in Muskegon, Michigan, on Christmas Day 1965. It was ...

Sherm Poppen was simply trying to find a way to keep his daughters occupied when he invented what would one day become the snowboard at his home in Muskegon, Michigan, on Christmas Day 1965. It was ...

Sherm Poppen was simply trying to find a way to keep his daughters occupied when he invented what would one day become the snowboard at his home in Muskegon, Michigan, on Christmas Day 1965. It was ...