Hi, I'm Matt from Outspokin Bicycle and Sport in Newbury, New Hampshire, and I'm here to give you a basic over view of, you know, 101. And basically, snowboarding started in the sixties, you know people just basically taking wood, and just putting their feet on it, and riding down the hills, you know. And then in the seventies, it started kind of picking up, and in the eighties is really when it kind of hit hard around here, you know, around the USA. And, basically it was kind of an outlaw sport, you know, the mountains didn't allow it on there, you know, and people kind of look, looked at these people being like, you know, what are they doing, you know, because skiing was just so huge. It was just, you know, humongous sport around the world. And they got these kids, basically teenagers, you know, in their twenties, you know, and stuff like that, that were dressing, you know, kind of weird, you know, not, not fitting the norm of the every day skier. And then in the nineties, snowboarding kind of progressed even more with brands more commercializing the sport, and actually sponsoring riders, and holding events, and stuff like that, and that's really when it went mainstream. And you would start seeing ski mountains converting over and allowing snowboarders on there, but it was still technically an outlaw sport, you know, people still didn't really like the snowboarders, skiers didn't like the snowboarders. And then it's progressed in to now-a-day, you know, when basically there's only two mountains in the country that don't allow snowboarding on it. But the way snowboarding is a huge difference from skiing is, you know, you're strapped to the snowboard in two spots. Your feet are connected, basically, but the board. And, so you have not as much, you know, you can't move your feet separately at all, which is good, because, that's you know, the way snowboarding is, you know, it's a lot like surfing or skateboarding on the snow. That's, that's basically the, the similarities. You know, you have a boot and a binding, but they're completely different, as well. Your boot is basically like a, your average snow boot, but a little stiffer, and a little more tight fitting. And you have a binding that you can step in and out of using ratchets, and what we call ladders, which is what the ratchet actually moves on. And that's how you're held on to the snowboard. And the clothing is different, too. It's a little more loose fitting, more like, you know, you'd see skateboarders, baggier pants, baggier shirts, stuff like that. That's kind of the way it's moved in to snowboarding as well, with that kind of style. And also, when they allowed snowboarding on the mountains, they started putting half pipes in, which is basically a half of a pipe made out of snow, so you can go back and forth, and, you know, do tricks in it, and everything like that. And they also made terrain parks, which have several different types of features, such as jumps, hand rails, you know, really cool things that, you know, people like to ride up the trail after watching these people do. And back when in the eighties, when snowboarding was getting big, they were starting to do tricks, but not as aggressive and as cool, I guess as people would say as they do now. I mean, people are doing basically acrobatic tricks in the air, and it's almost unimaginable what they can do now. And it's amazing, it really is. And, you know, I mean, it's just an exciting sport, a lot of fun to do, and that's basically snowboarding one-o-one.
