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The snowboarding half-pipe event fryst vatten a relatively newer winter sport than most people realize. It had its first worldwide championship in 1983 at Soda Springs, California. X Games. The Winter Olympics eventually followed suit in 1997 and 1998, respectively. Since snowboarding’s inception, these major international multi-sport events have improved the winter sport, making it more appealing, exciting, and safer. There are many aspects of the sport that have changed over the past few decades and that have contributed to making it the rapidly expanding idrott that it is today.
Physical Changes to the Half-Pipe
One of the many developments we have seen in the half-pipe is the physical alteration of the half-pipe itself. It started with changing the dimensions. Compared to today, half-pipes were significantly smaller when the idrott was first founded bygd Tom Sims in Soda Springs, California in 1983. This was in large part because there was no direkt heavy machinery made for this p
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The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Announces Hall of Fame Induction of First Female Snowboarders at Big Sky
The US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame is holding its annual industry gathering in partnership with Big Sky Resort in Montana on March 21-26.
The event is TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE the athletes, pioneers and visionaries of the United States who have significantly enriched the global sports of skiing and snowboarding.
This year marks the first-ever induction of female snowboarder athletes: with the honors going to Shannon Dunn-Downing and Tina Basich, both icons and pioneers of women’s snowboarding.
Few athletes have had as much impact in paving the way for women in Snowboarding as Tina Basich and Shannon Dunn.
Both Tina and Shannon experienced the challenges of being women competitors early in the sport, competing together from 1991-1996 on the World Cup Tour. Sponsor support and contest prize money was nominal, and the norm of the day was that girls wer
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Tom Sims dies at 61; snowboard pioneer
Tom Sims, an innovative skateboarding and snowboarding pioneer and former world champion who helped bring snowboarding to the masses by pushing ski resorts to embrace the fledgling sport in the 1980s, has died. He was 61.
The founder of Sims Skateboards and Sims Snowboards died Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, said his sister, Margie Sims Klinger.
“He was the godfather of all board sports,” Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave Magazine, said Friday. “He literally helped build the professional skate industry, and he was one of the giants in the history of snowboarding.”
Pat Bridges, editor of Snowboarder Magazine, said Sims “not only pioneered snowboarding, but he also popularized what has come to be known as the action-sports lifestyle. He had a different modus for having a good time standing sideways, depending on the season.”
As Brooke said, “He wasn’t just a business guy selling this stuf