Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: First on Board
• VHS Release Date: December 3, 2002
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304896484
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #523,653 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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This 1980 record of the first snowboarding contest is best when viewed as archival comedy. Today's big names in the boarding business, Tom Sims and Jake Burton, are shown handling with pride the latest technology in the then-new sport. Modified skates and truncated surfboards resemble cut-up toboggans with haphazardly attached Velcro straps, cut inner tubing and bungee cords serve as bindings while kevlar is touted as the way of the future. As the grand slalom competition is set to begin, there is a brief shot of two people inching along an imperceptible incline on reversed snow shovels, then with a kickoff provided by instantly dropped ski poles, the race begins. Flags are missed, and the participants spend more time in splayed horizontal stasis than in vertical motion. Shots of a hand-packed jump barely three feet high from which various skating tricks are attempted without a single landing are juxtaposed against contest footage from today. What is most apparent throughout this landmark competition are how the participants--including the hijacked jeans-wearing professional skaters, today's legends Sims and Burton, and random skiers attracted to the newness of this then burgeoning sport--recorded here for the first time, exemplify the free spirit and sense of adventure today's snowboarders are known for. Snowboarding Old School shows not only how far the sport has come in the years since the first ever snowboarding competition but how true to its roots the sport has remained. --DJ Alton

Product Description

The popularity of skateboarding and BMX freestyle is exploding throughout cable sports channels and international contests boasting thousands of spectators; the popular "Curb Dogs" series shows how it all got started! Packed with 1980s footage, back when most onlookers thought these activities were "fads," these videos burst with the exuberant and rebellious spirit of these street sport pioneers.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars good video with awesome historical footage, October 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Old School Snowboarding: The Very First Contest [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was shot way back before any of the modern stuff we have today. theres lots of good shots of Burton and Sims doing it up on homemade boards. i think everyone should check this out.

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1.0 out of 5 stars i thought it was too old, October 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Old School Snowboarding: The Very First Contest [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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