:23:02
If your, like, fairy tale goes wrong,
then you have to have a backup plan,
and I really didn't.
:23:10
[Man]
We actually bought
our first snowboards together.
:23:13
I think Joe bought
both ofthem, actually.
:23:16
Well, I'd just wrecked his car.
I backed it into a telephone pole.
:23:20
But I'd already wrecked his car
way before.
:23:23
[Ford]
So his mom was paying me
some money,
:23:25
and we went and bought
snowboards with it
instead of fixing his car.
:23:29
[Don Farmer]
Shawn has never quit
pursuing what he liked.
:23:32
He has stayed right there.
He's done it and done it.
:23:35
And I used to think, well,
he'll finally say, "That's it, "
and throw up his hands.
:23:38
He never has.
:23:41
And as far as I 'm concerned now,
as old as he is and what he's been doing,
he never will.
:23:46
[Farmer]
The early days of snowboarding...
:23:48
were definitely something
that can never be duplicated.
:23:52
It's like rock and roll in the '50s
or something, you know?
:23:55
People didn't even really know
quite what it was.
:23:58
And I'm just fortunate to have
lived through it and been part of it.
:24:20
[ Narrator] The next wave of snowboarders
was inspired by the hard-charging
skate and punk movements of the '80s.
:24:24
These antiestablishment influences
would fuel a clash ofcultures
that would last for over a decade.
:24:30
Snowboarding was a direct
descendant of skateboarding.
:24:32
Definitely surfing had its place
in influencing what snowboarding did.
:24:35
But as soon as people figured out
how it would actually ride on snow,
:24:40
they wanted to do skate tricks.
:24:43
## [Man Singing Rock]
:24:49
It was all about slashing
and finding walls...
:24:52
and trying those skate maneuvers
on my snowboard.
:24:55
I think it was a pretty rowdy crowd
at the beginning.
:24:58
Snowboarding was basically,
you know,just punk rock kids
just wanting to go out and thrash,