Show Surfers can catch a wave with snow snowboards boards Janna Jana Conder Contributing Writer HERE ERE it comes the carving sensation sensation sensation sensa sensa- tion yet It is called snowboarding and and it itis itis itis is the newest snow sport on the slopes Snowboarding Snowboarding Snowboarding Snow- Snow boarding is a mixture of surfing snuffing and skateboarding that came about to help surfers practice riding the waves during the off season All but three local ski resorts prohibit snowboarders snowboarders- Brighton I and Snowbird The reasonS reasonS-Jor the restrictions are that skiers dont don't want a combination of sports oI on or the slopes and they believe that too many time first-time I boarders fly down the hill at speeds they cant can't control A lot of resort owners are reluctant to let snowboarders on the slopes because they were out of control said Mark Dixson director director director tor of communications for the Utah Ski As As- ers have been e n kro known to fly down the ain at aj speeds s up up to to p 60 miles per hour where the only controls controls are stop stop stop- by falling and go go- go very very J fast t But snowboarders discount these complaints Many snowboarders believe that skiing is a much more dangerous r sport than snowboarding snowboard- snowboard ing because snowboarding ding uses just one board making it imp impossible I for one ones one's I. I s legs to get crossed and lessening g the chance of break break- breaking breaking breaking ing an ankle or a leg The liThe worst accident Ive I've ever had was was twisting my kne knee In snowboarding you dont don't have to worry about breaking your legs or or getting getting getting get get- ting your poles caught taught in the snow anti anil ripping ripping ripping rip rip- ping your ligaments said snowboarder Ken Joyce This sport was thought to be just a passing fad but has since proved to be a sport that is s shere here to stay By the end of 1989 there had been two World Championship events The Swatch World Classic in Breckenridge Colorado and the World Championship in Switzerland But snowboarding doesn't end there The 1988 World Cup of Snowboarding was held in Colorado with th participants from all over the world including Japan and Australia lia and snowboarding is expected to be bea a demonstration sport in the 1992 Olympics The board itself consists of a 5 x 10 piece of laminated wood or fiberglass with fixed bindings that can easily strap to any sturdy boot Unlike other sports snowboarders never gro grow out of the sport I just dont don't see a 25 year year old old saying Hey Im I'm an adult now so I Iam Iam Iam am going going to hang up my board n said Jake Burton owner and manufacturer of Burton Snowboards Mut But snowboarding is directed at teenagers The e kids would have have dropped it yesterday yesterday- but it is a sport that is too much work for those of us with sore knees and bruised ego s s said Dave Dave I Lansing of Sunset Magazine And like surfing surfing another another sport for the young at this heart heart this sport guarantees a rejuvenated market every five years Lansing added Snowboarding is a new wavea whole new step in the evolutionary process explained explained explained ex ex- ex- ex Paul Johnson VP V.P. of Statton Ski Resort the first resort in the country to allow snowboarders J 7 0 Yo N 1 h J. J 1 st f y j f V h 7 f 4 4 t It Y f. 4 n oj Zo v 1 ff 7 k h 1 1 F tf It J I y Z QI |