Snowboard Technology About 25 years ago a man thought of an idea to somehow skateboard on the snow. The man jumps on his idea and starts to construct a snowboard. The first snowboard that was ever made was completely made out of wood with wood loops over the top for bindings. Snowboards and bindings are now made individually out of plastics, polyurethanes, fiber glass, and many other things that make snowboards the way they are (Snowboard technology 2). Over the years snowboarding has changed in many ways. When snowboarding first came out it was the “un-cool” thing to do and now it isa main event in the X Games and even in the Olympics. If snowboarding was never invented would all technology be the same? Would it be worse? What would life be like if there was not snowboarding? How has technology changed snowboarding from what it was 25 years ago to what it is now? According to Alex Ingersoll, one of my fellow snowboarders, “it is important for snowboards to be made the way they are so that your performance is at its best while riding”. To be the best while riding snowboards they need to be flexible and fast. They are made in layers of fiber glass, polyurethane, and plastics because when it’s in layers they are more flexible. Some snowboards curve differently at the tail and nose so they go faster. Alex also says, “Some hi-tech boards are the Shaun Paulmer board, Burton Twin, and Burton Freestyle. These boards are all hi tech because the bases of them melt in warm temperature to fill in scrapes and then freeze over again over the scrapes so you never need to wax your board” (Ingersoll interview). Two Scottish scientists find a way to make snowboards out of carrot nana-fibers. What they do is strip carrots of their tiny fibers and mix it in a water base Curran material to make a mixture that can be molded into snowboards (“Carrot nanofibers to make snowboards”1). A man Victor Petrenko found a way to make an electric snowboard that doesn’t need a gas powered...