:25:02
be aggressive
and just try to express themselves.
:25:05
They're, like, a lot of kids
with a lot energy.
:25:08
The music we were listening to
told us to, you know, thrash, have fun.
Fuck authority.
:25:13
Freeze!
Not that funny.
:25:16
[Richards ]
This whole, like,
anti-authority movement...
:25:19
definitely pushed the sport
in the direction of free thinking-
you'd go and do what you wanted to do.
:25:24
The sport was yours to mold.
:25:27
We were stoked to be a part
of something that felt like our own.
It wasn't welcome at all from the skiers.
:25:34
[Man ]
Is that good enough?
I think so.
:25:37
I think when
snowboarding came along...
:25:40
and the skier establishment
saw this new thing that they
really didn't understand,
:25:46
they couldn't help
but reject it and try to ban it.
:25:50
I remember the first day
we went snowboarding.
We weren't allowed on the ski lifts.
:25:54
So we hiked up
along the side of the run.
:25:56
And l remember getting heckled
from the skiers, and that look, like,
what are they riding on?
:26:01
There was less than half a dozen
ski areas...
:26:04
that allowed snowboarding
on planet Earth in 1982 and 1983.
:26:08
The ski industry
thought that this was a fad-
"We want nothing to do with this. "
:26:12
I'd get letters from ski companies saying,
"Stop making these things."
:26:17
[Burton ] We knew we were entitled to it.
I think there was this feeling
that it was going to happen.
:26:20
But,yeah,
when big resorts caved in
you'd get a phone call-
:26:24
" Hey, we can get on Vail."
And it was, like, "No way!"
It was such cool news at the time.
:26:34
All of the sudden there was
these weird people on their hill,
and they didn't follow a tradition in skiing.
:26:43
[Man ] We were taking creative lines
down the mountain
that skiers weren't taking.
:26:47
They thought we were going to
injure ourselves or injure some other people.
:26:51
Which was not really the case.
:26:58
Was there a prejudice from
skiers towards snowboarders?.
I think absolutely.