January 9, 2026 • 13 mins
They thought it wouldn’t last.
They thought it was dangerous.
They thought snowboarding would die out.
In this episode, Dad shows his daughter a real news clip from the early days of snowboarding — when ski resorts were seriously debating banning snowboarders altogether. Commentators warned it was unsafe, reckless, and just a passing fad.
As a snowboarder herself, her reaction says it all.
From disbelief to laughter, this turns into a hilarious breakdown of how new subcultures get misunderstood — and how wrong people can be when something new challenges the status quo.
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They thought it was dangerous.
They thought snowboarding would die out.
In this episode, Dad shows his daughter a real news clip from the early days of snowboarding — when ski resorts were seriously debating banning snowboarders altogether. Commentators warned it was unsafe, reckless, and just a passing fad.
As a snowboarder herself, her reaction says it all.
From disbelief to laughter, this turns into a hilarious breakdown of how new subcultures get misunderstood — and how wrong people can be when something new challenges the status quo.
──────────────────
EP #74
Follow the chaos:
👨 David Smalley: @davidcsmalley
https://www.instagram.com/davidcsmalley/reels/
👧 Talissa Smalley: @talissasmalley_
https://www.instagram.com/talissasmalley_/
🌐 https://daughterpod.com
💸 Exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/daughterissues
If you enjoy dad & daughter reactions, cultural throwbacks, and unexpected reveals — subscribe for more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The ski patrol says it's got its hands full.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Quite quite a lot of them are uncooperative.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
That is so like consistent with snowboarders in general. Still today,
I don't care. I will find a way to haul
ass down the mountains.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Get every single episode, last video, and talk to us
in the comments at daughterpod dot com. Welcome back, Welcome back,
got me show with me, Daughter done, Lissa, all of that.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're not We cannot allow this. What you're a white man?
No accents?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Not right now?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And you know that.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
May let you boom boom down.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't want to hear another accent at all.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Welcome back, y'all, We welcome back. You enjoy a certain
activity that started in the eighties. I am older than
the activity that you do, and I want you to
see how it started.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You're older than my actemy.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm older than your activity. I was born in nineteen
eighty January in fact of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I guess that was a while ago.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh well, we don't have to say it like that.
It's funny though, you ready. Yeah, the activity is right
here because they're missiles.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
They they caused nothing but problems.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Those things build their missiles.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This is what all the fuss is about.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Snowboarding like snowsurfing, an idea that originated in where else, California.
It's been around for almost a decade in the United States,
and now it's becoming the trendy thing to do on
our local ski slopes. But the operators of the hills
want them.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Off of the skiers. We try and keep them separated.
But this snowboards come down the slopes and they'll go
right in between the skiers and we'll kick them off
and they'll just lip us off. And they're dangerous because
if one of these skateboards or skiboards whatever they're called
hit a person, they'd break their leg because they're just
(02:17):
like a missile. And most of them have no breaks
on them.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So pause, as opposed to those skis with all the
breaks on them. Yeah, right, what most of them don't
have brakes on.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just new. This is just it's just it's like,
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Just every generation, every old every generation gets old. It
goes these damn kids. Every yeah, every time it's the
rock and roll, it's the music, it's the this damn
rap music or whatever. It's just it's it's exhausting that
you that people don't recognize the cycle. Just realize that
skiing is your thing and this new thing is something
(02:54):
you don't care about, and then just move on. But
they literally it gets worse. They try to ban them
and block them from stuff. Just watch the struggles they
went through.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Buddy is allowing them on any of the mountains around But.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Where there's a will, there's always a way. Ski hill
operators refuse to let anyone with a snowboard onto the
chair lift, so they have to hike to the top
of the mountain and then find a secluded ski trail
where they won't get caught. The ski patrol says it's
got its hands full.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Quite a lot of them are uncooperative.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That is so like consistent with snowboarders in general. Still
today they don't care. I will find a way to
haul ass down the mountain.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
This is like a South Park episode. The way he's talking,
He's like, they're quite uncooperative.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
A little bit to drink and smart Alex. You know,
you go up and approach them in a very calm,
collect manner and they tend to lip you off. You
ask them very nicely to leave that they're endangering the
public and possibly themselves, and they they swear at you,
they tell you to get lost mind your own business.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So it's quite a problem for us. Really. I think
the major problem with the snowboards is that they run
into people. You know, they can't see behind them, and
when you get skiers and snowboarders together on a run,
you're looking for trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But the snowboarders don't see it that way.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
You got this powder strap right here, Bold John, They
could break your boy. Can't go any more than three
feet away from where you are. Skiers have brakes on
their skis or straps about the same thing.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So why are these people upset them?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
They just don't like how it looks. They think it's dangerous.
They don't want to know neither equipment or anything. Probably
out there some gadget or something.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Skiing is the same way. You know people, you know,
they get on skis and they just think they can
overcome the world and they just head down. Most know
their capacity, and they hurt other people, just like a snowboard.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I think they should let them give them a trial
run and let them try them out and see how
they go.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
When they have a high fatality rate with them, they
should take them off.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ballad.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Even if snowboarding is just another California fad. The people
who work on local skiing, they'll say one season is
one too many.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
They they don't see our point.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
They only see their own point, and it's sort of
a tunnel vision of a sort.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Do you see any compromise in the future at all?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, But he's like, they only say their side, they
don't see our side. Do you see any compromise?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What aren't you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Exactly what the hell you're that's wild complaining that they're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Boards also are such an interesting shape.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, isn't that funny?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like I've seen boards that I end in a point,
but they're still shaped differently than how a lot of
these are shape. It's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It's it's crazy being in twenty twenty five, are crossing
it at twenty twenty six, knowing how absolutely popular snowboarding is,
probably more popular than skiing, maybe even it's so popular.
To listen to a show from the nineties, eighties, late eighties,
(06:00):
early nineties talk about how whether or not it might
be a fad, like they just don't know if it's
gonna stick around or not.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So interesting though, because even to this day, I'm sure
you've heard about the just the arguments between like skiers
being like damn snowboarders, like there's a constant and like
snowboarders of like these fucking ski people, they don't know
what's up type of energy. There's definitely all like still
some like.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Are there are I don't do either, but are there
like certain mountains that are predominantly snowboarders and some that
are predominantly skiers, Not that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I don't know if that's a thing, but usually wherever
they're skiing, they're snowboarding. Wherever they're snowboarding, they're skiing.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I mean, snowboarding is popular enough now they could have
a snowboard only section.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Probably they they could, And honestly, I feel like for me,
skiing is more dangerous. I've never done skiing. But the
reason I think that is because skiing, usually people pretty
much agree, is easier than snowboarding because you're already standing
up right and basically you have two sticks to help
you standing up. Snowboarding you can't eat. Some people can't
(07:05):
even stand. So I feel like for me, snowboarding slows
me down. I feel like, if I am so confident
on the skis, I'm like, let me try this jump.
I feel I'm gonna get too confident, go too fast,
and it's gonna be too much. I feel like snowboarding,
I fall often enough to where it humbles me more
like it's harder to do, but you do. You are
like a missile. You do go fast when you go fast,
(07:26):
But like I personally am kind of scared to do skiing.
So it's interesting seeing them talk about it like that.
And because you have two sticks if you fall the
wrong way, Like.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, my wife was telling me she snowboards all the time.
She was telling me how even getting on the lit
or getting off the lift, if you're right next to
somebody with skis, sometimes she'll put her board down and
their pole will be under her board, and then she'll
fall because there they weren't watching where their polls were.
And snowboarders don't have poles to stick out and don't
trip anybody else up exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Wow, you play.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Skiing is becoming more and more popular, and if these
boards become more and more popular, it's going to be
more hassles more confrontation, so we just like to say
that we don't want them at all.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's so interesting, that's insane, And you're so snowboarding. The
first snowboard was made when I.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Don't know, they said, Dady's gonna look at it right now,
anytime you say something like that, he's on it. But
I'm guessing probably late seventies and then it probably started
getting popular. I'm guessing around eighty five.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Or so, so I know there's no that's my guess.
There's no like sleds or like anything that can sit
down and like sled down it. That's not allowed.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Interestingly though, there are snow bikes now. Yeah, I do
it is like a ski thing. That's what I want
to do when we go. I have no desire to
snowboard or ski, but I'm gonna do the bike thing.
The snow bike looks.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
The bike thing. It looks really fun, and I said
I want to try.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I drove road motorcycles most of my life, so that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, but I also think that that's pretty dangerous too,
because of the same reason of skiing, right, You're gonna
get so confident. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that you're gonna try
more things or go a little bit faster, and that's still.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
As the same. It's the same thing for you. Jet
skis and boat boats hate jet skis. They're irritating, they're annoying.
They drive around them, and they create a bunch of
crazy waves that makes it more choppy for the boats.
Fishermen definitely hate jet skis because they scare fish and
stuff like that. But sure, there's all any time people
get together, there's gonna be gunflip, and there's.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Different ways you like to enjoy the same activity.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, Danny, do you have a microphone hooked up? Oh,
we need to get you We need to get you
one hooked up so that you can oh sure, yeah, yeah,
do it, Yeah, do it?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
They want to hear from Danny. They never hear from you.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
So they were invented in the sixties.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
We're talking about that, right, WHOA, Yes, snowboards.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Yes, well, I mean yeah, So they were invented in
the sixties, but they weren't popularized until the seventies. There
was a surfer guy in Vermont who was like, yo,
look at this invention. It was like a wood in
a wooden board.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
So it wasn't really a sport yet. It was just Yeah,
they had the invention, but it wasn't Snowboarding wasn't a
thing until what year.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Yeah, the first time in the Olympics was ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Right, So I thought I was older than that because
I thought it was invented around eighty five.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Yeah, it seems like in the US it doesn't really
start getting popular. Cho A snowboarding became more popular in
the nineteen seventies and eighties. Pioneers such as Melovich Carpenter,
oh Milovich in Salt Lake City, right, Good snow Carpenter, Simms, Kemper,
all these guys came up with new designs for boards
and mechanisms that slowly developed into the snowboards and other
(10:50):
related equipment.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
That's insane. I mean, I mean it's literally like taking
the two skis on both feet, smoshing them together and
then turn into the side.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Sure, but what they But keep in mind that these
adults at the time were dealing with skateboarders in the street. Right,
They're driving their car and there's people skateboarding. So they're like,
now here you are on our snow on our mountains.
You just took the wheels off your skateboard.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And bar brought all the attitude with you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, don't get me wrong, I think most skateboarders are
gonna be naturally good at snowboarding, so I think that's
probably where a lot of them flooded over to or
even surfers are just kind of that like angsty almost
teenage like I'm gonna go fast, you know, like a
few man like yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I see people that practice that are practicing ice skating.
If they don't have access to ice, they'll get on rollerblades. Yeah,
so it's kind of the same vibe.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
All right, I just wanted you to say that I
thought it'd be fun for you to see back when
snowboarders were just irritating little twits.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
On the mountain, they still get traded them, for sure.
It's definitely more popular now. I would say I I
probably see more snowboarders than I see skiing nowadays. Nowadays,
I feel like skiing is almost seen as a little
bit like like yeah, older people, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Or families like taking little kids because it's easier.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah yeah, but I definitely.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
See the people that go there to party are like, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think it's also just less equipment too, less pieces
you just have. You just have one board, that's it.
So I think it's just also easier to keep up
with at the same time.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
But all right, let's go to the mountain this year.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We might have to with the ski bike.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I want a ski bike. We're gonna go get a
ski bike.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That sounds like so much fun, or at least I
want to find a mountain that will allow for the
one you can sit down on and just what do
you mean, like not like a mountain with like this,
just like one big hill where you can sit on
a like a tray and just that's called a sled.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What I'm saying a tray.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Gotta find one of those.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Okay, all right, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
This podcast has ended. Don't do that. I'm gonna start
messing up. Every single time he starts to show mh,
I'm over there.
The ski patrol says it's got its hands full.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Quite quite a lot of them are uncooperative.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
That is so like consistent with snowboarders in general. Still today,
I don't care. I will find a way to haul
ass down the mountains.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Get every single episode, last video, and talk to us
in the comments at daughterpod dot com. Welcome back, Welcome back,
got me show with me, Daughter done, Lissa, all of that.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're not We cannot allow this. What you're a white man?
No accents?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Not right now?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And you know that.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
May let you boom boom down.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't want to hear another accent at all.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Welcome back, y'all, We welcome back. You enjoy a certain
activity that started in the eighties. I am older than
the activity that you do, and I want you to
see how it started.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You're older than my actemy.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm older than your activity. I was born in nineteen
eighty January in fact of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I guess that was a while ago.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh well, we don't have to say it like that.
It's funny though, you ready. Yeah, the activity is right
here because they're missiles.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
They they caused nothing but problems.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Those things build their missiles.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This is what all the fuss is about.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Snowboarding like snowsurfing, an idea that originated in where else, California.
It's been around for almost a decade in the United States,
and now it's becoming the trendy thing to do on
our local ski slopes. But the operators of the hills
want them.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Off of the skiers. We try and keep them separated.
But this snowboards come down the slopes and they'll go
right in between the skiers and we'll kick them off
and they'll just lip us off. And they're dangerous because
if one of these skateboards or skiboards whatever they're called
hit a person, they'd break their leg because they're just
(02:17):
like a missile. And most of them have no breaks
on them.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So pause, as opposed to those skis with all the
breaks on them. Yeah, right, what most of them don't
have brakes on.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just new. This is just it's just it's like,
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Just every generation, every old every generation gets old. It
goes these damn kids. Every yeah, every time it's the
rock and roll, it's the music, it's the this damn
rap music or whatever. It's just it's it's exhausting that
you that people don't recognize the cycle. Just realize that
skiing is your thing and this new thing is something
(02:54):
you don't care about, and then just move on. But
they literally it gets worse. They try to ban them
and block them from stuff. Just watch the struggles they
went through.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Buddy is allowing them on any of the mountains around But.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Where there's a will, there's always a way. Ski hill
operators refuse to let anyone with a snowboard onto the
chair lift, so they have to hike to the top
of the mountain and then find a secluded ski trail
where they won't get caught. The ski patrol says it's
got its hands full.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Quite a lot of them are uncooperative.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That is so like consistent with snowboarders in general. Still
today they don't care. I will find a way to
haul ass down the mountain.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
This is like a South Park episode. The way he's talking,
He's like, they're quite uncooperative.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
A little bit to drink and smart Alex. You know,
you go up and approach them in a very calm,
collect manner and they tend to lip you off. You
ask them very nicely to leave that they're endangering the
public and possibly themselves, and they they swear at you,
they tell you to get lost mind your own business.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So it's quite a problem for us. Really. I think
the major problem with the snowboards is that they run
into people. You know, they can't see behind them, and
when you get skiers and snowboarders together on a run,
you're looking for trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But the snowboarders don't see it that way.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
You got this powder strap right here, Bold John, They
could break your boy. Can't go any more than three
feet away from where you are. Skiers have brakes on
their skis or straps about the same thing.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So why are these people upset them?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
They just don't like how it looks. They think it's dangerous.
They don't want to know neither equipment or anything. Probably
out there some gadget or something.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Skiing is the same way. You know people, you know,
they get on skis and they just think they can
overcome the world and they just head down. Most know
their capacity, and they hurt other people, just like a snowboard.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I think they should let them give them a trial
run and let them try them out and see how
they go.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
When they have a high fatality rate with them, they
should take them off.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ballad.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Even if snowboarding is just another California fad. The people
who work on local skiing, they'll say one season is
one too many.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
They they don't see our point.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
They only see their own point, and it's sort of
a tunnel vision of a sort.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Do you see any compromise in the future at all?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, But he's like, they only say their side, they
don't see our side. Do you see any compromise?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What aren't you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Exactly what the hell you're that's wild complaining that they're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Boards also are such an interesting shape.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, isn't that funny?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like I've seen boards that I end in a point,
but they're still shaped differently than how a lot of
these are shape. It's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It's it's crazy being in twenty twenty five, are crossing
it at twenty twenty six, knowing how absolutely popular snowboarding is,
probably more popular than skiing, maybe even it's so popular.
To listen to a show from the nineties, eighties, late eighties,
(06:00):
early nineties talk about how whether or not it might
be a fad, like they just don't know if it's
gonna stick around or not.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So interesting though, because even to this day, I'm sure
you've heard about the just the arguments between like skiers
being like damn snowboarders, like there's a constant and like
snowboarders of like these fucking ski people, they don't know
what's up type of energy. There's definitely all like still
some like.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Are there are I don't do either, but are there
like certain mountains that are predominantly snowboarders and some that
are predominantly skiers, Not that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I don't know if that's a thing, but usually wherever
they're skiing, they're snowboarding. Wherever they're snowboarding, they're skiing.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I mean, snowboarding is popular enough now they could have
a snowboard only section.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Probably they they could, And honestly, I feel like for me,
skiing is more dangerous. I've never done skiing. But the
reason I think that is because skiing, usually people pretty
much agree, is easier than snowboarding because you're already standing
up right and basically you have two sticks to help
you standing up. Snowboarding you can't eat. Some people can't
(07:05):
even stand. So I feel like for me, snowboarding slows
me down. I feel like, if I am so confident
on the skis, I'm like, let me try this jump.
I feel I'm gonna get too confident, go too fast,
and it's gonna be too much. I feel like snowboarding,
I fall often enough to where it humbles me more
like it's harder to do, but you do. You are
like a missile. You do go fast when you go fast,
(07:26):
But like I personally am kind of scared to do skiing.
So it's interesting seeing them talk about it like that.
And because you have two sticks if you fall the
wrong way, Like.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, my wife was telling me she snowboards all the time.
She was telling me how even getting on the lit
or getting off the lift, if you're right next to
somebody with skis, sometimes she'll put her board down and
their pole will be under her board, and then she'll
fall because there they weren't watching where their polls were.
And snowboarders don't have poles to stick out and don't
trip anybody else up exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Wow, you play.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Skiing is becoming more and more popular, and if these
boards become more and more popular, it's going to be
more hassles more confrontation, so we just like to say
that we don't want them at all.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's so interesting, that's insane, And you're so snowboarding. The
first snowboard was made when I.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Don't know, they said, Dady's gonna look at it right now,
anytime you say something like that, he's on it. But
I'm guessing probably late seventies and then it probably started
getting popular. I'm guessing around eighty five.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Or so, so I know there's no that's my guess.
There's no like sleds or like anything that can sit
down and like sled down it. That's not allowed.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Interestingly though, there are snow bikes now. Yeah, I do
it is like a ski thing. That's what I want
to do when we go. I have no desire to
snowboard or ski, but I'm gonna do the bike thing.
The snow bike looks.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
The bike thing. It looks really fun, and I said
I want to try.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I drove road motorcycles most of my life, so that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, but I also think that that's pretty dangerous too,
because of the same reason of skiing, right, You're gonna
get so confident. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that you're gonna try
more things or go a little bit faster, and that's still.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
As the same. It's the same thing for you. Jet
skis and boat boats hate jet skis. They're irritating, they're annoying.
They drive around them, and they create a bunch of
crazy waves that makes it more choppy for the boats.
Fishermen definitely hate jet skis because they scare fish and
stuff like that. But sure, there's all any time people
get together, there's gonna be gunflip, and there's.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Different ways you like to enjoy the same activity.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, Danny, do you have a microphone hooked up? Oh,
we need to get you We need to get you
one hooked up so that you can oh sure, yeah, yeah,
do it, Yeah, do it?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
They want to hear from Danny. They never hear from you.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
So they were invented in the sixties.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
We're talking about that, right, WHOA, Yes, snowboards.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Yes, well, I mean yeah, So they were invented in
the sixties, but they weren't popularized until the seventies. There
was a surfer guy in Vermont who was like, yo,
look at this invention. It was like a wood in
a wooden board.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
So it wasn't really a sport yet. It was just Yeah,
they had the invention, but it wasn't Snowboarding wasn't a
thing until what year.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Yeah, the first time in the Olympics was ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Right, So I thought I was older than that because
I thought it was invented around eighty five.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Yeah, it seems like in the US it doesn't really
start getting popular. Cho A snowboarding became more popular in
the nineteen seventies and eighties. Pioneers such as Melovich Carpenter,
oh Milovich in Salt Lake City, right, Good snow Carpenter, Simms, Kemper,
all these guys came up with new designs for boards
and mechanisms that slowly developed into the snowboards and other
(10:50):
related equipment.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
That's insane. I mean, I mean it's literally like taking
the two skis on both feet, smoshing them together and
then turn into the side.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Sure, but what they But keep in mind that these
adults at the time were dealing with skateboarders in the street. Right,
They're driving their car and there's people skateboarding. So they're like,
now here you are on our snow on our mountains.
You just took the wheels off your skateboard.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And bar brought all the attitude with you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, don't get me wrong, I think most skateboarders are
gonna be naturally good at snowboarding, so I think that's
probably where a lot of them flooded over to or
even surfers are just kind of that like angsty almost
teenage like I'm gonna go fast, you know, like a
few man like yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I see people that practice that are practicing ice skating.
If they don't have access to ice, they'll get on rollerblades. Yeah,
so it's kind of the same vibe.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
All right, I just wanted you to say that I
thought it'd be fun for you to see back when
snowboarders were just irritating little twits.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
On the mountain, they still get traded them, for sure.
It's definitely more popular now. I would say I I
probably see more snowboarders than I see skiing nowadays. Nowadays,
I feel like skiing is almost seen as a little
bit like like yeah, older people, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Or families like taking little kids because it's easier.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah yeah, but I definitely.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
See the people that go there to party are like, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think it's also just less equipment too, less pieces
you just have. You just have one board, that's it.
So I think it's just also easier to keep up
with at the same time.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
But all right, let's go to the mountain this year.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We might have to with the ski bike.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I want a ski bike. We're gonna go get a
ski bike.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That sounds like so much fun, or at least I
want to find a mountain that will allow for the
one you can sit down on and just what do
you mean, like not like a mountain with like this,
just like one big hill where you can sit on
a like a tray and just that's called a sled.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What I'm saying a tray.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Gotta find one of those.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Okay, all right, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
This podcast has ended. Don't do that. I'm gonna start
messing up. Every single time he starts to show mh,
I'm over there.
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