Snowboarding
Sherman Poppen's Snurfer through Burton, halfpipe, Shaun White's double McTwist 1260, Travis Rice big-mountain video parts.
Part of Extreme Sports
10 moments in this segment.
- — Sherman Poppen — the Snurfer. Sherman Poppen straps two skis together as a Christmas-day toy for his daughter. The Snurfer ships commercially in 1966 — the first mass-market snowboard.
- — Tom Sims wins first contest. Tom Sims wins the first US National Snowboard Championship at Suicide Six, Vermont. The contest-era begins.
- — First snowboard halfpipe. A halfpipe dug at Soda Springs, California hosts the first halfpipe-format snowboarding contest. The architecture that will define competitive snowboarding is set.
- — Travis Rice — That's It That's All. Travis Rice's film That's It, That's All redefines big-mountain snowboarding film. Backcountry-line + heli-pickup style copied for the next decade.
- — Shaun White — Double McTwist 1260 (Olympic gold). Shaun White lands the Double McTwist 1260 to win his second Olympic gold at the Vancouver halfpipe. The trick was practised on a private halfpipe built by Red Bull.
- — Travis Rice — The Art of Flight. Travis Rice's follow-up The Art of Flight (Red Bull Media House) becomes the most-watched snowboard film in history. Standardises the cinema-budget action-sports doc.
- — Kelly Clark — first women's 1080. Kelly Clark lands the first 1080 (3 rotations) by a woman in a snowboard halfpipe at the US Open.
- — Sage Kotsenburg — first Olympic slopestyle gold. Sage Kotsenburg wins the first-ever Olympic snowboard slopestyle gold at Sochi 2014 with a backside 1620 Japan.
- — Jake Burton founds Burton Snowboards. Jake Burton Carpenter founds Burton Snowboards in Londonderry, Vermont — the first dedicated snowboard manufacturer. Becomes synonymous with the sport.
- — Anna Gasser — first women's 1620 big air Olympic gold. Anna Gasser wins big-air gold at PyeongChang 2018 with the first cab double cork 1080 by a woman in Olympic competition.
