Snowboarding Old School: The Very First Contest

Experience the spirit...

Join an enthusiastic handful of pioneering thrill seekers and sport enthusiasts who organized the first snowboarding contest!

In April of 1981 a free-spirited group gathered at Ski Cooper in the Colorado high country to test their skills at "surfing" in powder. Experience the excitement of snowboarding's "discovery days" and watch early believers as they grab first air, and initiate maneuvers that are now considered classic in snowboarding exhibition and competition.

Currently the hottest winter sport, snowboarding was once outlawed in almost all ski slopes. Compare the early technology of boards and bindings, and the exuberant art of a sport that enters the new millennium with Olympic credentials.

Includes:
The first video program on Snowboarding-Snowboard Meltdown
Early snowboard news report
Snowboard contest Berthoud Pass 1983
Snowboard contest-Berhoud Pass 1984
First time snowboarder's in Aspen
Tom Sims for the camera's in 1983