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1985 CBC Anti-snowboarding News clip - Mt Seymour, BC

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#1 · (Edited)
If you haven't seen this video in its entirety, its worth a watch for a good laugh. It's especially funny if you ride Seymour in this era, where they are now considered the more board-friendly mountain on the north shore.

**Link updated 01/31/2013 - The clip used to specify 1985 as the date, now it just says "1990's" so who really knows. But it sure looks like 1985.**
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categori...re-outrageous/skiers-versus-snowboarders.html

Also look at 1:25 the neon skiers in the background loading the lifts by side-stepping up that hill - priceless!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I just did.

edit: at 3:48 of this youtube clip from the Forum movie - That there is a clip of this original. Thanks to nitroboarder for reminding me what movie it was in.
 
#6 ·
Yeah I recognized parts of it, didn't remember it was from THAT, thanks I'll have to dig up my copy and watch.

And yeah in some ways, they actually had a legit case against snowboarders when the gear was so primitive, it definitely looks way less in control than today's standards.
 
#14 ·
great video....of course snowboarders were dangerous at first....im mean cmon, how were they supposed to practice and get better at it if no one let them on ski lifts??:dunno:

I enjoy being a "smart alec" and cutting skiiers off hahah:laugh: pay backs a bitch for our great great ancestors
 
#17 ·
Some of us remember those days. First board I rode on did not have edges had three fins bolted on like a surfboard. That was the cutting edge tech at that point. First one I bought did have full metal edges though. Was a time before internet sales and no local shops so had to drive to the Burton Factory to buy my first board.

And yes that was how people felt about snowboarding at that time. Getting yelled at for going off a jump because a snowboard ruined them.:dunno:
 
#18 ·
Hahahaha oh man those seem like some crazy times. I bet that guy is having a shitfit these days. I hate people like that who are resistant to change. I try everything, there is no reason to be so close minded. Although those old boards did look like suicide. I don't know if I would want to strap on one of those.

Just comes to show you how fast the tech has progressed and how fast it is still progressing. Just 25 years later and snowboarding is HUGE.
 
#27 · (Edited)
If you haven't seen this video in its entirety, its worth a watch for a good laugh. It's especially funny if you ride Seymour in this era, where they are now considered the more board-friendly mountain on the north shore.

CBC News | Program | Television | CBC Archives

Also look at 1:25 the neon skiers in the background loading the lifts by side-stepping up that hill - priceless!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I just did.

edit: at 3:48 of this youtube clip from the Forum movie - That there is a clip of this original. Thanks to nitroboarder for reminding me what movie it was in.
I know that this thread is two years old, but does anyone know how I can find the footage from this broadcast? I tried looking in the archives but am having a hard time finding it. I'm looking for the footage for a school project.

Thanks

Edit: Was able to find it, incase anyone is interested in seeing the video: CBC Digital Archives - Extreme Sports: Faster, Riskier, More Outrageous - Skiers versus snowboarders
 
#28 ·
thanks for the updated link.

those early boards had no metal edges and no sidecut - none of the boarders in that video could turn, so I can see why the skiers didn't want them there.

The rest of the dialogue was BS. I seriously doubt that most every kid they stopped was cussing at them and/or drunk. I know for sure skiing was NOT becoming "more an more popular". Snowboarding saved the increasingly expensive snow sport industry which was declining to the point where some resorts were near having to close....and some did close.
 
#30 ·
Skiing wasnt becoming more and more popular, that's why back in the day resorts such as Stevens had $10 Mon/Tues. I was talking to an older guy (60+) at work one day and he said to me that he enjoyed snowboarders, cause if it weren't for them, we would have all of these new lodges, chairs, runs etc. I know more people that have quit sking to board, then the other way around, like the old saying goes "Bored skiers, go Snowboarding".

I was trying to find a news clip from the late 80's early 90's, where the news crew was doing a story on snowboarding, it was the typical b.s., they cut in line, they're out of control, rude and then I thought I heard it all, this dumb bitch in her neon one piece ski suit said "They all look like they carry guns" ?, so from that day on it was an ongoing joke while getting suited up, we'd say goggles check, gloves check, money check and AMMO check
 
#31 ·
Skiing was definately on a downward trend in the mid eighties. I lived in a small town outside of Mammoth and none of us ever went skiing. As soon as we discovered snowboards we hiked small hills near our houses and built tiny kickers to no-where that we thought were the best things ever. When we could finally ride June mountain we did, and we sucked. We got spit on, body checked, knocked over in line, cut off, punched... the list goes on. Sometimes we fought back, sometimes we turned the other cheek and shredded pow.

I miss those days! In the end we won, but sometimes I feel like the over-commercialization and corporatization of our sport killed the one thing we all had in common back in the day.

Soul.

On that note, it's time to go ride. Have a great day and go play on a stupid wooden toy. Don't forget to piss off a skier here or there for old times sake! :D
 
#32 ·
I do remember those days, guys throwing snowballs off of the chairs at us, spitting, altercations, passing us on the road with a finger out the windows etc etc, but believe me I do hunt out the euro carve skier guys and chase them down, then blow right past them, then watch them try to catch me. It's funny though, once you've shown them that you can carve/G.S. with the best of them, then all of the sudden they want to ride up the chair together and all they do is say that they've never seen a "boarder" race/carve that fast past them, the occasional powder spray is always fun
 
#33 ·
well, I can tell you that , as someone that rode out east with very limited verts and slopes that were all pretty much the same with a few trees between one and the other, yes skiing got boring.

No one I knew really skied when I got older...

so I sat, and did nothing. Then one day, a co-worker told me that he snowboarded (not really, he stunk) so we went out one day, and I never looked back.

Sure, in a few years my crippling , deteriorating body will no long allow me to board......but until then I'm loving it.

Yet , I still like to ski too. Nothing like holding an edge going 60+ mph , then switching to another and yet another...but floating on a board through powder .....skis cant touch.

'round here,...there were no boards. Then one day there were a few and that's all there were for some time. They were not allowed after a year or two at our local hills, then a couple years later, they were.

People didnt like them because they USUALLY were the more asshat crowds that were hanging in packs in the middle of teh slope on their asses, doing not much of anything.

Fast forward 10 years, and things have evolved to an amazing level.


I guess its like anything, people fear change and new things. They want to beat it with a stick and go back to their cave eating whatever they clubbed earlier.

Unless it is technology for some reason. People now flock toward anything like ants to a picnic. I see people with ipads that have no idea what to do with them. Rushing to get in line to buy the new one, only to have the exact same apps and three emails a day loaded on their ipad. I dont get it. My company rolled out 1000 of these things to the sales force because 'it made them look cool and everyone else is doing it', yet they cant really figure out what they can do with them. They REALLY need a good solid small/lightweight laptop or, TADA a Windows Surface. :) But, we trudge on blindly like lemmings and purchase whatever the inc's throw at us, as long as there is an lcd or potentially LED screen.

Which brings me to a video outlining this very topic,...enjoy....

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network
 
#34 ·
I guess skiing still has it's place, like super steep/ice covered runs where you need every ounce of effective edge possible...but then, why even bother other than to get out of the house.

There's gotta be a reason you rarely see skiers in really deep powder (at least around here). It probably takes a relative lifetime to be learn to manage all that equipment flailing around in anything over 2 feet deep (or even less). A snowboard is made for that shit. Those shapeless, backseat 80s boards obviously sucked on hardpack, but probably worked in pow (not that any of those boring conservatives in the vid would know....they most likely never ventured off groomers)
 
#35 ·
Most of the conservatives I know go pretty big. They work hard and play hard too. Most of the people back then were families. Mixed across political bands. Yea you had some younger guys that would let it rip, but not like today. You see alot more solo riding today than ever before. And I've been doing this a long time...
Dont let the verbiage conservative fool you. Just because they dont want 50% of their efforts going toward another person who sits around all day watching the tv with no intentions to contribute to society, doesnt mean they are boring.

:)
 
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