Ingemar Backman Bs Air Riksgransen Sweden May 1996

[brutolf]

Back then they often built the jumps by hand, the parks where a joke compared to now. I remember looking at an old halfpipe competition and the walls looks hand made and ain't higher then about 1m. A Mac-Twist was awesome because you barely had the air time to make it.

Snowboarding had a soul back then and then the "spin to win" took over and kind of killed it.

[nicknamecharlston]

Swedish guy called Ingemar obviously a good combo! Tack Ingemar för att du satte Sverige på extremsportkartan

[Hopefulfilment]

This is one of the biggest facepalms of my life. I was there in Riksgränsen (working) but on that particular day I was just so tired I stayed home watching TV. And everyone came back from the competition talking about this amazing qp jump by Ingemar Backman...

[Steppen1983]

One of my heroes in Snowboard. That day history was made and snowboarding has just kept on pushing. But Terje is the biggest of all times and will forever be. See how much higher he flew in the Halfpipe compared with others in the mid 90s and on.

[MADRACOYACHTING]

OMG ! I feel old........

[CentroXer]

the guy is a legend

[feryar]

I remember this. I think most "old school" snowboarders do. For me this is the biggest moment in snowboard history. Never mind doublecorks or 1440s, Backman made himself immortal with that BS air and it will still be remembered when todays acrobats are forgotten :)

[paltcoma]

@feryar

Bullshit Air ?? there is no trick called that :)

[cloudkap]

thats still huge today.

[thedude225]

I remeber when I saw the sequenz for the first time, I thought its fake ; ) sooo rad! I think this is still on of the best methods in snowboard history..

[Lancefsc]

I had a photo of this in my wallet all through highschool...

[paltcoma]

@Lancefsc

I hope you are a girl then. Male worshiping is not cool.

[oxsiorski]

i remember this!

[rezzamarco]

THIS IS HISTORY!

[everythingells]

one of my stand out memories in my snowboarding life was this air. you da man ingemar

[pumeguy]

Big then and big now! But back then.... i definitely was wtf!!!!!!

[crackpipeblingbling]

Dude Im Old! Only 27 but damn this is like weird I remember being 13 and seeing that and being like holy s/h't that was huge! I hope all the young cats know that Terje ,Ingemar , Daniel Frank, Jamie Lynn Jim Rippey Kevin Jones and many more are the reason snowboarding got so big. Sure Travis Rice Shaun White Horgmo-whatever throw hugew tricks nowadays but the guys I mentioned laid the ground work

[Sommar2008]

havent been able to find Stomping grounds here on you tube, a really najz movie and I reaally loved that intro song, someone knows it, my video tape is long time gone....

[digiprez77]

@Sommar2008 Everything Sux by the Descendents...

[sk8punk720]

one of snowboarding's most memorable events!

[dawgeatdawg]

so big

[snowboardrealms]

best moment in snowboarding .

[ale73rds]

SPETTACOLARE

[crackedboardsproject]

E-Way fool!

[kgbjim]

ja shit va jag kommer ihåg de där! de va helt galet...

[Stonz4KinG]

Jeez, 96 already..! Was a big b/s air!

I remembered riding some of his Pro Model by Atlantis.. Was good old time.

[timbuck27]

STOMPING GROUNDS!!!

[bodenlanisback]

HAhahahahah!

0:22 Some guy comes up to him and hits him in the stomach and hes like uuuuuhhhhhh!

[blodpalteen]

ja han känn man

[mcrew01]

the king ingemar......after be the best rider of the world,a brilliant buisness man,he try to beacame a poker champion........you are my hero....my model

[MrKiruna]

Minns det som igår, satt där på nån sten och glodde (fan vad gammal jag är).

[rareu4532]

Högsta 8.5 meter!, tror terje fick förra året, nåt åt de hållet! Ingemar har då haft reckordet i nästan 12 år =))

[lindeborn]

Alltså.. inte för att kritisera dagens rekord tagare på QP höjd, men Backman är/var fan den sjukaste. Han flög alltså 8+ meter i en liten jäkla Qp som var byggd för hälften kanske. Respekt.

[peterahart]

So good.

I think he actually touched heaven with his method.

[markpemble]

He knows how to fly.

check out the 1996 hair at 0:24!