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Poppen built a snowboard out of plastic planks.
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Poppen started production of his snurfers.
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Over half a million snurfers were sold.
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Milovich started making snowboards after sliding down some hills on a cafeteria plate in college.
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Milovich started a new company called Winterstick.
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Jake Burton Carpenter designed wooden snowboards with bindings that secured his feet to the board. The board also had waterski foot traps. That exact same year, he founded Burton Snowboards in Londonderry, Vermont.
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Sims produced his first snowboard after he got the idea in his shop class in Junior High.
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The first ever World Snurfing Championships was held at Pando Winter Sports Park near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Carpenter entered the championships with his own board and won in his own division.
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The first U.S. race was held near Woodstock, Vermont at Suicide Six.
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The first World Championship halfpipe competition was held at Soda Springs, California.
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Snowboarding became an official sport: in 1985, the first World Cup was held in Zürs, Austria.
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The International Snowboard Federation (ISF) was founded in 1990 to provide universal contest regulations.
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Snowboarding became a winter olympic sport.
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Snowboarders formed the World Snowboarding Tour.
