{"id":15405,"date":"2010-04-09T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:24:50","slug":"idaho-man-claims-snowboard-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15405","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Man Claims Snowboard Invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/steve_819768808.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/steve_819768808.jpg','popup','width=318,height=212,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\/2010\/04\/steve_819768808-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Steve 819768808\" \/><\/a>Add a new name to the list of people who have invented snowboarding: <strong>Steve Weill<\/strong>. The 58-year-old lutheir from Cocolalla, Idaho says he began snowboarding in 1959, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/riverjournal.com\/vivvo\/news\/mandolinmaker_weill_aguirre_042010.html\" target=\"_blank\">The River Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steve grew up in Southern California near the edge of the Pacific Ocean. He boated, surfed, and was one of the original snowboarders. . . \u201cI invented snowboarding,\u201d Steve said with a smile. \u201cThe first time I snowboarded was in 1959.\u201d . . In the late 70s, Steve moved to Idaho and started building 16\u2019 Whitehall rowing boats. He also built snowboards and spent plenty of time carving up Schweitzer Mountain on his handcrafted boards. . . \u201cI wanted my son to carry on with Weill snowboards,\u201d Steve said, \u201cbut they have gotten pretty high tech. Troy (one of his sons) still builds 16\u2019 rowing boats.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weill will have a rough time beating out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jonessnowboards.com\/2008\/09\/the-origin-of-snowboarding-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">that village in Turkey<\/a><\/strong> or the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14147\" target=\"_blank\">Wickland&#8217;s Bunker Board<\/a><\/strong>, but it obviously doesn&#8217;t hurt to try.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/riverjournal.com\/vivvo\/news\/mandolinmaker_weill_aguirre_042010.html\" target=\"_blank\">The River Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add a new name to the list of people who have invented snowboarding: Steve Weill. The 58-year-old lutheir from Cocolalla, Idaho says he began snowboarding in 1959, according to a story in The River Journal. Steve grew up in Southern California near the edge of the Pacific Ocean. He boated, surfed, and was one of [&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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405"}],"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=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15407,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions\/15407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}