snowboarding

Snowboarding's early roots are blurry but it's generally accepted to have evolved from surfers and skateboarders looking to recreate their sports in a winter environment. Snowboarding maintained relatively unknown to most of America until the 1997 ESPN Winter X Games brought national attention to what the top athletes were able to accomplish on their snowboards. The following year's Olympics in Nagano, Japan would be snowboarding's coming out party to the world.

Today's top snowboard personalities, such as Shaun White, are highly sought after brands, walking a fine line between business savvy and sellout. Snowboarding now influences all aspects of modern youth culture, from music to clothing to video games and are looked up to by kids and adults for their on and off snow exploits.

As it's primarily a winter sport the blogosphere's attention to snowboarding has a strong seasonal bias.  In late winter and early spring blogs light up with sneak previews and catalog scans of the following season's new snowboard gear and accessories. 

Summer is a relatively quiet period, with the bulk of the infrequent posts coming from film crews in the Southern Hemisphere and year round backcountry snowboarders. The blogosphere starts to buzz again as the long summer days turn to cool fall nights and the snow begins to fall once again.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “snowboarding”

• in Outdoor
  Snowboarding versus Golf
  Discussing the cost of golf and snowboarding; determining the value of each.
  by bigjuice / on Aug 19, 2010
• in Lifestyle
  Hannah Teter's Charity Set up for Long-term Good
  Olympic champion snowboarder Hannah Teter has set her charity up to prosper well into the future
  by toddwrightnow / on Feb 25, 2010
• in Olympics
  Great Day For U.S.A, Three Golden Olympians
  A golden day for the U.S. Olympic team, as they take home 3 golds, a silver, and two bronzes. And memories, oh so many memories.
  by dmdo / on Feb 18, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “snowboarding”

 

• A Pocket History of Snowboarding

  
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• Fathers of Snowboarding: Terry Kidwell

  
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• Snowboard Review

  
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• For Never

  
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• Braindead!

  
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• Fathers of Snowboarding: Ken Achenbach

  
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• The Crash Reel – first look review

  
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  The crash reel – a montage of falls by snowboarders – is turned painfully on its head in Lucy Walkers documentary about the long drop from athletic excellence to frail humanity Its the training season for the 2010 winter Olympics. World-class snowboarder Kevin Pearce swings up the half pipe and launches into the ...
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• The Crash Reel – first look review

  
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• Snowboard Trick Secrets – $3.5k & 4 Days Later

  
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• Is There Snowboarding on Mars?

  
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• SNOWBOARDER MAGAZINE | CLIP OF THE DAY | LUCAS MAGOON

  
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• Fathers of Snowboarding: Chuck Barfoot

  
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