Protect Your Wild Podcast

S1E3 - Jake Burton Carpenter: Snurfing Gone Wild


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Colin and Avinash go into the journey that an absolute legend took to invent a new sport. Jacob Carpenter help create and shape the sport of Snowboarding. In this episode, we go into his life and how he took "snurfing" and turned it into SNOWBOARDING. Tune in to hear this incredible story!

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How I Built This podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KPHTLIbWejO7T9ODwMEbF?si=HXm41ifiQJ-rhpAMliB1uA

Protect Our Winters: https://protectourwinters.org/

Chill Foundation https://www.chill.org/support-chill

Interview of Jake circa 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPzy9xsTZ90

History of snowboarding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYcqU3QUyzA

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Sauces:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2405922/jake-burton-snowboard-founder-dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MWDiEPvEiM
https://www.burton.com/blogs/the-burton-blog/remembering-jake-burton-carpenter/
https://www.si.com/vault/1997/01/13/221316/chairman-of-the-board-jake-burton-took-a-childhood-toy-and-launched-an-international-craze
https://deadline.com/2018/02/shaun-white-gold-nbc-highest-pyeongchang-olympics-ratings-peak-to-date-1202288095/

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