{"id":25011,"date":"2011-08-25T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25011"},"modified":"2011-08-25T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:45:23","slug":"greg-dacyshyn-standing-sideways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25011","title":{"rendered":"Greg Dacyshyn: Standing Sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bilde-24.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bilde-24.jpeg','popup','width=640,height=485,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\/2011\/08\/bilde-24-tm.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-24\" \/><\/a><strong>Greg Dacyshyn<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Chief Creative Officer, had a column on &#8220;innovation&#8221; in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110825\/BUSINESS08\/110824016\/Greg-Dacyshyn-Innovating-sideways-\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/strong> today. In it he talks about how meaningful the term &#8220;standing sideways&#8221; is to him and how innovating Burton is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for innovation, there is no denying that it is at the core of what we do here at Burton. We\u2019re literally obsessed with making our products better. It started when Jake Burton hand-built over 100 different snowboard prototypes in his Vermont barn back in 1977. At that time he was making snowboards using the construction techniques of skateboards, surfboards, boats, water skis, and even solid wood furniture. He tells a great story about how, since there were no snowboard manufacturing machines, he had do it all by hand, and almost killed himself twice when wooden blanks shot off his hand router and went through a wall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110825\/BUSINESS08\/110824016\/Greg-Dacyshyn-Innovating-sideways-\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Dacyshyn, Burton&#8217;s Chief Creative Officer, had a column on &#8220;innovation&#8221; in the Burlington Free Press today. In it he talks about how meaningful the term &#8220;standing sideways&#8221; is to him and how innovating Burton is. As for innovation, there is no denying that it is at the core of what we do here at [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25011"}],"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=25011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25012,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25011\/revisions\/25012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}