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[Narrator]
In the 1970's, snowboarding emerged
from the backwoods ofAmerica.
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It was an unknown sport with roots
based on freedom, flow, selfexpression...
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and a lifestyle that offered
a truly unique feeling that defied description.
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During its brief,
but chaotic history,
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snowboarding would battle the establishment,
overcome prejudice and fight to keep its soul.
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And injust 25 years
it would spread around the world...
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and change the face ofsports
as we know it today.
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Snowboarding is so young,
and it came about so quickly,
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that there wasn't really a chance...
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for the history to lay itself down
and be concrete.
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Any town you go in in the U.S.,
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there's always some old-timer
that comes up with a story like,
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"Oh, I was the first guy
to ever snowboard.
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I took a waterskiandl cut the back off
andlput a rope on there.
I invented snowboarding. "
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I'm one ofthose guys
that's, like, I'm not the inventor.
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I'll never say I'm the inventor.
I'll never say I'm the first.
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There's always been somebody before you
that's had the same idea or something similar.
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To me,
it was more of an evolution.
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Snowboarding has been around
longer than any of us even know,
maybe over a hundred years.
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[Richards ]
I believe that snowboarding's
more about the pioneers that started it.
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Jake influenced the growth
of snowboarding on the East Coast.
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Tom Sims and Chuck Bafroot influenced
the growth of snowboarding on the West Coast.
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And then a sport was born.
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[ Man ]
He was a strange breed.
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"Individualist"
would be an understatement.
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Jake Burton was definitely
one of the visionaries,
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if not the main one
to put the sport over the top.
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## [Man Singing Rock ]
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[Burton ]
I got exposed to the whole concept
of snowboarding through the Snufrer.
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The Snufrer was a product
that was made in the '60s.
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It had no bindings,
and the early ones had no fins.
So it was just almost rodeo style.
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But there was something there.
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[ Ranquet ]
Tom was coming from a sufring
and skateboarding background.