Talk:Snurfer

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Seems to be taken from here http://neovox.cortland.edu/stadium/stadium_20/stadium_20.html. Needs cleaning up as well as ensuring no copyvio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avraham (talk • contribs)

That link is dead now ;( -- Middenface 14:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

The Snurfer is not a snowboard and, as a piece of histry, deserves its own page. 207.233.32.17 18:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The snurfer should be merged with the snowboard page. The 'Snurfer' was the early form of the snowboard, wasn't it? Also, that little of an article should be within another article. XD

Nibz_Mastah =°°=

I own a Brunswick Snurfer and an original Burton Backyard Board. Based on an analysis of both boards and their construction, I would say that if an original Burton Board is a snowboard, then so is a snurfer. Therefore, I recommend inclusion of the snurfer content in the history of the snowboard. Further, I think it is appropriate to credit Poppen as the inventor of the snowboard. In Grand Haven, Michigan, I rode my Burton Backyard Board, a friend's Backhill Board (first binding), and another friend's Sims Board (which required the mounting of a skateboard deck), literally within a week of each other during Christmas vacation in 1979. (I think it is interesting that Western Michigan was one of the first markets that Burton and Sims were able to penetrate successfully--largely because of the previous success there of the Snurfer.) Less than a month after that, I remember seeing an advertisement for Winterstick in Skiing Magazine. Therefore, I think all of these other pioneers are appropriately grouped together as primary innovators in the sport. Before their collective efforts, turning as a speed control technique was virtually impossible--on packed snow it absolutely WAS impossible--so these innovators are certainly responsible for the sport's eventual assimilation into the ski resort industry.

MaestrobriMaestrobri 21:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC) HELLO FROM AND —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.89.28.7 (talk) 05:14, 3 February 2008 (UTC)