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It is hard to say who actually “invented” the first snowboard. There are websites, magazine articles, extreme sports blogs dedicated to this subject but I think we should start the exploration of this topic with this observation; People have always figured out how to slide down a hill on some sort of sled, so perhaps it’s impossible to state who the ‘inventor’ of the snowboard was. However there are some big players who have certainly helped towards the growth of snowboarding, the sport and snowboarding, the industry.There have been some adventurous folk however who have been documented as strapping a makeshift board to their feet and pointing it downhill in the snow. One of them was M.J. “Jack” Burchett. He cut out a plank of plywood in 1929 and tried to secure his feet with some clot scholarships for high school seniors hesline and horse reins. Before the next step for the snowboard was taken, it had to wait over 30 years until 1963 when an American kid named Tom Sims, a student in eighth grade, constructed what he called a “Ski Board” for a class project.In 1965 Sherman Poppen, a chemical gases engineer in Muskegon, invented “The Snurfer” (his wife came up with the name) as a toy for his daughter. He made the Snurfer by bounding two skis together and putting a rope at the nose, so the rider could hold it and keep it more stable. Many of his daughters friends wanted one of those new Snurfers, and soon Poppen licensed his new idea to a manufacturer. The Snurfer was sold over half a million times in 1966, but was only seen as a toy for kids, even though Poppen organized competitions with this new board.