The History of Snowboarding

Since 1984, Milosport Snowboard Shop has been in the snowboarding game.  Dimitrije Milovich, for whom the name Milosport derives, was shaping snowboards in the late 1960’s, launching his famous Winterstick swallowtail in 1972.  Dimitrije was indeed a pioneer of the sport, gracing magazines such as Newsweek and Playboy.

In snowboarding history not one person started the sport, but four different individuals. During the 1970s and 1980s as snowboarding became more popular, pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich (Winterstick Snowboards), Jake Burton Carpenter(founder of Burton Snowboards), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards), and Sherman Poppen (of Snurfer fame) came up with new designs for boards and mechanisms that slowly developed into the snowboards and other related equipment that we know today.

Salt Lake City has become the Hollywood of snowboarding, having more Pros, bros, and flows living here than anywhere else in the world.  Maybe it’s the powder, the proximity to the mountains, the liquor laws, or the history.  Not sure why but we welcome them to our mountains!