Have you ever been snowboarding before?
No, it looks too scary for me. Snowboarding came about by watching skateboarding, sledding, and skiiing.
The first person to have tried it must have been very brave then! I tried skateboarding when I was younger, chipped a tooth!
Snowboarding came about in the 1960's here in the US.It became an Olympic sport later on. Seems like something you need practice to do.
Lots of practice too. So it's a fairly new sport if it was discovered in the 1960's then?
Yes it did. It became real popular in 2007 but it has declined since then.
I wonder what happened in 2007 to make it surge in popularity like that?
Everything fizzles out eventually. Modern snowboarding started when a man named Poppen invented a toy for his kids, putting two skis together and attaching a rope.