Tales of the early days of Canadian snowboard history!
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Bud Fawcett has been documenting snowboarding and living it since the early 80s in Tahoe. This slideshow really is snowboarding’s history.
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We dug through the TWS archives to bring you coverage and complete results from the last ten years. Plus bonus coverage from the inaugural awards show in 1991.
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In the beginning there was an urge to find different ways to get down a snow-covered hill, to be different, and to tinker. This account is not meant to issue bragging rights or lay down who’s-first claims (unless they are widely known,) but it’s an effort to educate and give thanks to the early pioneers who had the ingenuity and took the time to make snowboarding better. This is a simple account of the evolution of the snowboard binding.
[First published in Transworld SNOWboarding, February 2005]
By Dennis Nazari
Photography by James Cassimus
In 1996, Shimano and Switch introduced the first step-in binding system. The simplicity and convenience of step-ins seemed certain to be the death of strap bindings. But the patents that had been issued to Shimano and other binding manufacturers made it difficult for anyone to develop the heel/toe connection step-ins. So most companies scrambled to come up with alternatives like a connection at the instep of the boot. Brands that tried to keep up were spending tens of thousands of dollars in research and development and advertising, which later turned into hundreds of thousands in legal fees. PHOTO: James Cassimus
The timeline was first published in the Transworld SNOWboarding February 2005 issue.
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An abbreviated timeline of snowboard binding evolution. The binding timeline was first published in Transworld SNOWboarding in February, 2005.
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