The Rise of The Snowboarder | 63
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In the 1990’s there was a generational battle between Gen Xers and Baby Boomers as snowboarders began taking over ski resorts. The sport which had been underground since the early 80s was finally becoming mainstream and skiers weren’t happy about it. They complained that snowboarders were loud, rude and dangerous. But they were also what ski resorts needed to keep the industry alive.
On this episode of History of the 90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks back at where snowboarding started and what happened when it became the fastest growing winter sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Kathy. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to History of the 90s |
| 0:04.7 | early and ad-free on Amazon music included with Prime. |
| 0:10.1 | It's the early 90s at Copper Mountain, Colorado. An invasion of young people has taken over the resort. |
| 0:17.8 | Riding in packs, jumping over signs, tables, and trash cans. They strike fear into |
| 0:23.2 | the hearts of baby boomers, not used to sharing the slopes with such a rambunctious crowd. |
| 0:29.3 | Resort staff hand out brochures with a list of rules. They call it shredicate, hoping to convince |
| 0:35.3 | the younger visitors to behave. |
| 0:42.0 | It tells them to refrain from stopping on the side or in the middle of a slope. |
| 0:43.9 | No jumping man-made objects. |
| 0:47.9 | And under no circumstances, is profanity acceptable. |
| 0:55.4 | It's an epic generational battle, one that's playing out on the slopes of ski resorts around North America as an underground sport is becoming mainstream. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm Kathy Kanzora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed the world. |
| 1:07.0 | On this episode, The Rise of the Snowboarder. |
| 1:15.2 | Thank you. On this episode, The Rise of the Snowboarder. On Christmas Day in 1965, a Michigan dad was looking for a way to keep his two young daughters busy |
| 1:22.0 | and to give his very pregnant wife a bit of a break. |
| 1:25.8 | In desperation, Sherman Poppin came up with an idea. |
| 1:29.7 | He grabbed a pair of Kmart skis that belonged to one of his daughters |
| 1:32.8 | and nailed them together with pieces of wood at the top and the bottom. |
| 1:38.2 | The Poppin family lived in Muskegon, on the shores of Lake Michigan, |
| 1:42.1 | where there were plenty of sand dunes covered in light snow. |
| 1:46.3 | It was too thin for a sled, but perfect for the connected skis, which seemed to float over the snow. |
| 1:53.8 | From there was born a kid's toy that blended snow and surfing. Poppin's wife christened it, the snurfer. Poppin, who owned a welding supply |
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