Snow-boarding is a sport that’s loosely described as “surfing” in the snow and can be dated right back to the 1960s in its earliest development, when it is a much cruder sport with really elementary gear. Nevertheless when snow-boarding made its debut at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Japan, it became one of the speediest growing sports in the US. Snow boarding now holds the interest of over 7,000,000 participators in the U.S. Alone, and many skiers and boarders have crossed over to this no longer crude intense sport. After snow boarding debuted in the 1998 Olympic Games with 2 events, it returned in the 2002 and 2006 Olympics. [Read more...]