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[ Narrator] The next wave of snowboarders
was inspired by the hard-charging
skate and punk movements of the '80s.
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These antiestablishment influences
would fuel a clash ofcultures
that would last for over a decade.
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Snowboarding was a direct
descendant of skateboarding.
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Definitely surfing had its place
in influencing what snowboarding did.
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But as soon as people figured out
how it would actually ride on snow,
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they wanted to do skate tricks.
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## [Man Singing Rock]
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It was all about slashing
and finding walls...
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and trying those skate maneuvers
on my snowboard.
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I think it was a pretty rowdy crowd
at the beginning.
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Snowboarding was basically,
you know,just punk rock kids
just wanting to go out and thrash,
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be aggressive
and just try to express themselves.
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They're, like, a lot of kids
with a lot energy.
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The music we were listening to
told us to, you know, thrash, have fun.
Fuck authority.
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Freeze!
Not that funny.
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[Richards ]
This whole, like,
anti-authority movement...
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definitely pushed the sport
in the direction of free thinking-
you'd go and do what you wanted to do.
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The sport was yours to mold.
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We were stoked to be a part
of something that felt like our own.
It wasn't welcome at all from the skiers.
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[Man ]
Is that good enough?
I think so.
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I think when
snowboarding came along...
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and the skier establishment
saw this new thing that they
really didn't understand,
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they couldn't help
but reject it and try to ban it.
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I remember the first day
we went snowboarding.
We weren't allowed on the ski lifts.
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So we hiked up
along the side of the run.
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And l remember getting heckled
from the skiers, and that look, like,
what are they riding on?