 Being a skater I was always of course looking at skateboarder magazine and I also always wanted to go surfing Surfing for me was a big dream skating. I could do surfing. I never could I was you know 15 14 13 Whatever here in the mountains of the barrier. You just don't surf, but I always wanted to do it and So the first time I saw us images of snowboarding was Somewhere 76 77 maybe 78. I don't know in the skateboarder magazine Guys like Chuck Barford, Tom Sims, you know those guys and I was immediately I was thinking this is it This is my way into to get into surfing really so that's how I started just magazines skateboard magazines This to me looked like the perfect idea for making a snowboard so I built this thing I just put some grip tape on it from skateboard stuff and these are actually a Back in the day they had these for the heel for cross-country skis So I got a bunch of those for grip and this is a inner tube from a bicycle so essentially you You put your feet under the rubber like that with just soft winter boots a little bit of a binding and that's it That's all you need We're still pushing the powder It actually still looks pretty cool even today, you know And of course I was always trying to make a kicker a launch off of this is actually a tree stump We're trying to launch off a tree stump But yeah, I mean of course you were trying to push as much as you could Perfect 80s styling with the mullet with the full suits We was really about getting that surf vibe of course trying to get some air The two boards you see there are basically that waterski board and that first sims board that I got from the US I think this is probably one of the first snowboards that was ever Actually shipped to Europe This is the original invoice from Sims, but sims pro ski board 140 centimeters Leash t-shirt Stickers there's no running base. No steel edges just some metal fins There's no bindings, but the design concept of the binding is basically the same You know from this to this board was a leap in technology. It was amazing because this had so much more flotation It's twice as wide. It's the same length twice as wide. It looked amazing to me. This is look so sexy and You're hiking the little mountains around here I didn't really have a desire to push anymore because I thought this is snowboarding surfing and the soft snow But of course when I saw this other stuff It was like wow and then of course got involved in that and became a pro rider and everything Must be mean something like 86 or seven or so. I don't know we have to have a face You have to have a face like that yet. We're like Maybe I shouldn't have pulled this out. I think You guys were not even born when this happened. So don't laugh Can make temperature temperature team funds no one can Really was that 80s fun vibe that everybody was like Having fun somehow, you know, I remember that one, you know, we did a photo shoot So we did a lot of photo shoots for clothing companies those days. Yeah, snowboarder skiers, whatever really crazy bright clothes Tiger suit Pretty sweet, huh? Writing in shorts was a big thing, you know, like this one to like writing in shorts is important t-shirt shorts spring powder Just had to do it. But this is again, you know, I was I was trying to serve don't forget that There was no coolness factor. There was nobody that was like cool or uncool, you know Everybody was so stoked. I think the best thing was really that the general vibe was very positive It was impossible to be uncool just not possible because nobody was cool