Snowboarding is the world's fastest growing winter sport and is set to become
             even more popular than skiing. It is still a young sport and there are many people
             eager to learn more about the enjoyment the sport has to offer.
             Without going to a mountain and taking a few lessons it is hard to fully
             appreciate what the sport really is, and the sensation that riding a snowboard
             gives. Hopefully, my report will tell everything a person would need to know
             about equipment, so that they can go try the sport out for themselves.
             The first snowboard ever marketed was produced by Shervin Popper, in 1964.
             It was a crude model put together in his garage, after he saw his daughter trying
             to go down a hill on a sled standing up. It consisted of two children's skis
             strapped together, with some doweling on the top for foot attraction. His daughter
             took it to the local sledding hill, and soon enough all the kids wanted one.
             Another pioneer was Dimitrije Milovich, a surfer from the east coast. He made
             his invention because of the lack of warm water in the winter. This board also
             had no bindings, but it included iron edges. In the early seventies Milovich began
             limited production of these custom boards.
             In 1977 the main snowboard company for today started production. Jake
             Burton made and sold his prototypes with handmade bindings. These included
             some elements similar to modern design. Tom Sims also started production of
             some boards. In 1979 Tom Sims and Chuck Barfoot created the first board
             At the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties, the snowboard
             began to appear in some sports magazines and on American and Canadian TV.
             A beer commercial showed Paul Graves riding a snowboard. This introduced the
             snowboard to the public, although it was still considered a strange sport.
             Now that snowboards were allowed on some mountains, the board needed to
             be redesigned so that i...