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Haz
Snowskating: Alive and Definitely Still Kicking.
Last week we posted an epicly seventies video of some dudes strapping plastic skids to their skateboards and ripping around in the snow.
It was filmed in 1978, the year after Burton Snowboards was founded, and we wondered idly what might have happened if adapted skateboards, rather than Jake’s modified snurfers, had caught on and taken over the world.
In the course of our musings, we made a couple of disparaging off-the-cuff remarks about snowskating, implying that it was a short-lived trend that had had its day. They were a couple of throwaway lines, not the main point of the piece, and so we thought no more about it. But judging by some of the comments, we think we might have touched a bit of a nerve…
Take this one for starters from the awesomely-named Mr Bender:
