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Episode: Ready for a trip to the park? Snowboarding set for its spotlight at the Winter Olympics
Description: The origins of snowboarding go back to Christmas Day 1965, when an engineer named Sherman Poppen strapped two skis together to give his daughters something to do. He called it a "snurfer" and started selling them the next year.
Jake Burton came along, refined the toy, and helped turn snowboarding into a mass-market sport. Along the way, superstars like Shaun White and Chloe Kim redefined what could be done in the air, and the sport is always reinventing itself in terms of tricks.
There are three snowboarding events in what's called the park (halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air) and two more...