This is a classic snurfing video! Like he said, nothing against snowboarding, but snurfing is just so basic and pure and hassle free. Plus, with resort boarding getting ridiculously expensive, more people are rediscovering snurfing, and more companies are coming out with new snurfers, including our own.
This is next level Snurfing! Inspiring as I just moved to Tahoe and took up Snurfing this year. I am 30 years as surfer, snowboarded back in 90s, but Snurfing is so much more like surfing. Technical, one with nature and super difficult. Love it!!! Great video!!!
I grew up in Muskegon county,Mi. in the early part of 1970 I was given my first snurfer..we used the sugar bowl at Mienart Park Beach on Lake Michigan..awesome hill with jumps built right into it. Crashed a thousand times and froze to death twice.
Thanks - and good point about the lift. Always ask first. In my favor, my wife is an employee for 15+ yrs and, when I first asked, the old Patrol director had been on duty in 1982 at the 1st snowboard/snurf championship. No guarantee others would be granted the same access. Many green circle trails with 2-4" can be done top-bottom. Blues are tougher; I was pushing my luck on 1/29 and don't always stand up! J
Sherman Poppen rules! Snurfing is tied with bodysurfing as my favorite sport! Snurfing down a hill or mountain is a different experience than snowboarding. The sensation feels like a mix between waterskiing and surfing. It is a great feeling and more challenging than snoboarding and skiing because it does not require as much speed and incline to peform challenging maneuvers. Snurfing is made for noncompacted snow.
I still have mine. when my Burton Elite 150 - 1986 was on lay-away...i practiced with the snurfer and also a heavily waxed Powell deck turned backwards and used the kick tail as the nose...Amazingly, I learned to carve with it, totally different than today's boards, you had to put all your weight on the front foot and do a kind of kick-slide to get the board pointing in another direction.Back then, it was so new and seemed an impossibility to most, just riding on a small hill was thrilling!!!
OMG, S-6!, on a Snurfer!! YEAH!! Been there, done that, but by Moonlight! Of course, there was also that time in '82 when I rode there at 'The Nationals', using a Burton Backhill (cheats, though, compared with most Snurfers; had Fins and rubber-inter-tube-like bindings; true Snurfers had either the little pegs, or carpet staples to hold your feet on). The Backhill and I came to rest in the parking lot (yup, past the Liftline, over the bridge, into a Pontiac stationwagon to stop!) on my second run.Paul Graves (my Snurfer/Backhill coach) had used his kitchen table as the 'start launch', the course was on 'the Face', and we were all going a lot faster than was comfy. I saw the one guy's question about 'turning'; Yes, we could turn, nicely too, given soft snow. But on hardpack, not so much; Moreover, the 'base' was varnished wood on 'Comp' Snurfers (and on early Burton's), plain old yellow paint on regular Snurfs. I did put tri-fins and a pre-preg glass base, along with bike-intertube straps on one Snurfer, and I gave that to Paul G. many years ago as a 'thank you' for hooking me up with Team East, and then Burton. So many lasting names were at Suicide Six for that first East-meets-West contest; Jack Smith, Chris Karol, Tom Sims, and a few others that stayed with the sport of Snowboarding for awhile. It was a great time to be 'in the mix', and that event took me to where I would go on to teach snowboarding for the next 25 years (starting in '88, as there were no 'snowboard schools' before then, really), and design the 1st halfpipe with it's own snowmaking system and dedicated lift (Okemo's superpipe), as well as help a few aspiring Olympians along their way. Snurfers were the original 'snowskate', and 'Snowboard', all at once. Gotta love hiking some backhill area with one, and getting some tight old turns in the freshies! Oh, and what's missing on the new-school 'No-boards'? The front mounted Rope, which pulls the nose up ,while helping de-camber the board. That, and, from a shape-form standpoint, the V-bottomed tail. Thanks for the Video, brings back the thoughts of better times!! "P.S.R."
Wow, great comment!! I still have the Snurfer I got for Christmas in 1970, but on that very same day in 1982 I pulled into the S6 parking lot with thoughts of skiing, took a look around at the utter craziness on the hill, and decided it might be best to come back another day. The thought of "competing" on a Snurfer had never crossed my mind. I saw the video later and tip my hat to all those who gave it a go. I've ridden the Face to the bottom, with better snow mind you, and helped Paul a bit at the 20th anniversary event in 2002. Glad you liked the video; maybe it's time for another...
Great Snurfing and fantastic job filming...nice steady camera work! I always wanted to take my Snurfer to a ski resort to see what a long run would be like. I'm surprised they let you on the lift!
if you want to see what a true snurfer is capable of then search for this video "Worlds first snowboard". It is amazing super 8 footage of two snurfers in 1968!
This is a classic snurfing video! Like he said, nothing against snowboarding, but snurfing is just so basic and pure and hassle free. Plus, with resort boarding getting ridiculously expensive, more people are rediscovering snurfing, and more companies are coming out with new snurfers, including our own.
This is next level Snurfing! Inspiring as I just moved to Tahoe and took up Snurfing this year. I am 30 years as surfer, snowboarded back in 90s, but Snurfing is so much more like surfing. Technical, one with nature and super difficult. Love it!!! Great video!!!
I grew up in Muskegon county,Mi. in the early part of 1970 I was given my first snurfer..we used the sugar bowl at Mienart Park Beach on Lake Michigan..awesome hill with jumps built right into it. Crashed a thousand times and froze to death twice.
Thanks - and good point about the lift. Always ask first. In my favor, my wife is an employee for 15+ yrs and, when I first asked, the old Patrol director had been on duty in 1982 at the 1st snowboard/snurf championship. No guarantee others would be granted the same access. Many green circle trails with 2-4" can be done top-bottom. Blues are tougher; I was pushing my luck on 1/29 and don't always stand up! J
Glad you enjoyed it! It's still a great way to go down a hill.
thanks. the CD is "Badema" by Malang Jobateh and Nate Silas Richarson, song is "Foreya".
Sherman Poppen rules!
Snurfing is tied with bodysurfing as my favorite sport! Snurfing down a hill or mountain is a different experience than snowboarding. The sensation feels like a mix between waterskiing and surfing. It is a great feeling and more challenging than snoboarding and skiing because it does not require as much speed and incline to peform challenging maneuvers. Snurfing is made for noncompacted snow.
Shit looks dangerous. Glad I'm from a time of current snowboarding.
I still have mine. when my Burton Elite 150 - 1986 was on lay-away...i practiced with the snurfer and also a heavily waxed Powell deck turned backwards and used the kick tail as the nose...Amazingly, I learned to carve with it, totally different than today's boards, you had to put all your weight on the front foot and do a kind of kick-slide to get the board pointing in another direction.Back then, it was so new and seemed an impossibility to most, just riding on a small hill was thrilling!!!
OMG, S-6!, on a Snurfer!! YEAH!! Been there, done that, but by Moonlight!
Of course, there was also that time in '82 when I rode there at 'The Nationals', using a Burton Backhill (cheats, though, compared with most Snurfers; had Fins and rubber-inter-tube-like bindings; true Snurfers had either the little pegs, or carpet staples to hold your feet on). The Backhill and I came to rest in the parking lot (yup, past the Liftline, over the bridge, into a Pontiac stationwagon to stop!) on my second run.Paul Graves (my Snurfer/Backhill coach) had used his kitchen table as the 'start launch', the course was on 'the Face', and we were all going a lot faster than was comfy. I saw the one guy's question about 'turning'; Yes, we could turn, nicely too, given soft snow. But on hardpack, not so much; Moreover, the 'base' was varnished wood on 'Comp' Snurfers (and on early Burton's), plain old yellow paint on regular Snurfs. I did put tri-fins and a pre-preg glass base, along with bike-intertube straps on one Snurfer, and I gave that to Paul G. many years ago as a 'thank you' for hooking me up with Team East, and then Burton. So many lasting names were at Suicide Six for that first East-meets-West contest; Jack Smith, Chris Karol, Tom Sims, and a few others that stayed with the sport of Snowboarding for awhile. It was a great time to be 'in the mix', and that event took me to where I would go on to teach snowboarding for the next 25 years (starting in '88, as there were no 'snowboard schools' before then, really), and design the 1st halfpipe with it's own snowmaking system and dedicated lift (Okemo's superpipe), as well as help a few aspiring Olympians along their way. Snurfers were the original 'snowskate', and 'Snowboard', all at once. Gotta love hiking some backhill area with one, and getting some tight old turns in the freshies! Oh, and what's missing on the new-school 'No-boards'? The front mounted Rope, which pulls the nose up ,while helping de-camber the board. That, and, from a shape-form standpoint, the V-bottomed tail.
Thanks for the Video, brings back the thoughts of better times!!
"P.S.R."
Wow, great comment!! I still have the Snurfer I got for Christmas in 1970, but on that very same day in 1982 I pulled into the S6 parking lot with thoughts of skiing, took a look around at the utter craziness on the hill, and decided it might be best to come back another day. The thought of "competing" on a Snurfer had never crossed my mind. I saw the video later and tip my hat to all those who gave it a go. I've ridden the Face to the bottom, with better snow mind you, and helped Paul a bit at the 20th anniversary event in 2002. Glad you liked the video; maybe it's time for another...
Great Snurfing and fantastic job filming...nice steady camera work! I always wanted to take my Snurfer to a ski resort to see what a long run would be like. I'm surprised they let you on the lift!
if you want to see what a true snurfer is capable of then search for this video "Worlds first snowboard". It is amazing super 8 footage of two snurfers in 1968!
due which skiing area is that it looks so familiar to me....oh ye and looks fun to snurf
No, I don't, not on packed powder. Just enough to stay out of the trees.
10"-12"+ fresh snow, then it's no-o-o problem.
Thumbs up from me.?
Suicide Six, South Pomfret, VT USA.