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From Straight Lines to Triple Corks . . .

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The World Snowboard Tour and Swatch present:

From Straight Lines to Triple Corks - The History of Competitive Snowboarding

In five parts, weekly from March 1st. Here’s the teaser:


 
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Cool shaka


Was that Jim Rippey I spied there?

 
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Sure was.  shaka

 
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What was the movie where he did a backflip on a snowmobile, way before anyone else was doing them?

 
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Oh yeah, I remember that. TB10?

 
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Yeeeeeeeeewwwwwww - had to go looking, and just found this:

 
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Mad skills.

My mate has an old Rippey from about that vintage sitting in his shed…........ might have to suss it out for my collection.

 
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That Jim Rippey clip is sick!

Looking forward to ep 1 of the series as well. I guess ep 1 comes out tomorrow.