{"id":11115,"date":"2009-10-20T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T18:07:46","slug":"ross-rebagliati-tells-the-snowboard-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11115","title":{"rendered":"Ross Rebagliati Tells The Snowboard Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/off_the_chain.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/off_the_chain.jpg','popup','width=395,height=498,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/off_the_chain-tm.jpg\" height=\"252\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Off The Chain\" \/><\/a><strong>Ross Rebagliat<\/strong>i won snowboarding&#8217;s first gold medal in Nagano &#8217;98. Though the IOC tried and failed, no one can take that away from him. Sadly, it was a medal in giant slalom and not in the crazy, off the hook halfpipe. This hasn&#8217;t stopped Ross from telling the story of snowboarding history himself in the book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1553654870?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1553654870\" target=\"_blank\">Off The Chain<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Off the Chain takes readers on a wild ride through the rise of snowboarding, from its hippie origins in the backwoods of Vermont and California to its present incarnation as a $150 billion global industry. Illustrated with 100 color photographs, Off the Chain begins with the sport\u2019s early days, when the pioneers built their own boards and snuck onto the slopes. Author Rebagliati profiles snowboarding\u2019s most notorious figures, explores the nature of snowboarding culture, and tells what touring as a young World Cup snowboarder is like. . . . He\u2019s unsparing in revealing the sport\u2019s more controversial aspects, from groupies to drugs, including his own experience having his gold medal revoked \u2014 and then restored \u2014 after failing a drug test. Rebagliati pulls no punches in this lively mix of personal memoir and sports history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like a bit of a strange title coming from Ross, but regardless, we&#8217;re looking forward to checking it out. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1553654870?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1553654870\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to pre-order the book<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1553654870?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1553654870\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Rebagliati won snowboarding&#8217;s first gold medal in Nagano &#8217;98. Though the IOC tried and failed, no one can take that away from him. Sadly, it was a medal in giant slalom and not in the crazy, off the hook halfpipe. This hasn&#8217;t stopped Ross from telling the story of snowboarding history himself in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11116,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}