Uncover the Surprising Connections That Shaped Snowboarding’s Legendary Beginnings—From Grandma’s Lawn Mower to Jake Burton’s Vision!
“I only met Jake once, at a Burton U.S. Open, right after I signed with Burton,” Sadowski-Synnott said. “It was special. Without him, we wouldn’t have snowboarding.”
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Burton went from mowing lawns to New York University, where he graduated with a degree in economics, and then to Wall Street.
In the late 1970s, he gave that up and moved back to Vermont to take a gamble. He wanted to see how far the “Snurfer,” a pair of skis bolted together that was invented by Sherman Poppen a decade earlier, might take him.
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