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 ...

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 ...

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 one of the sports represented at the first-ever Winter X Games in 1997. A year later, it made its Olympic debut at the 1998 Nagano Games, with halfpipe and giant slalom contested.

Snowboarders abound at Pando Ski Center, but few people know that it was the site of the first snowboard competition. It was in 1979, and only one person competed -- Jake Burton Carpenter, who ...

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 ...