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Surfing, like snowboarding is becoming more mainstream. It's really getting much more popular as people realize it's not that hard.

Bruce Condon

Especially for snowboard cross, endurance is huge. All of us are strong athletes. Ski racers, in the downhill, do one run a day. We did six today, plus warm-up runs. Those are minute-30 [second] runs, so you need a lot of endurance to pull that off.

Seth Wescott

I would really like to see these kids with disabilities be out on the hill skiing and snowboarding as much as possible.

Cara Barrett

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

Tony Hawk

It was a very interesting study in sociology, the integration of snowboarding on the mountain. It's amazing people were actually discriminated against because of what they were wearing on their feet.

Gwyn Howat

I was having fun. Snowboarding is fun. I was feeling great that I was ahead. I wanted to share with the crowd my enthusiasm. I messed up, and oh well, it happens.

Lindsey Jacobellis

For me, the Olympics was part of being something much bigger than snowboard. I had an awesome time ... I am a huge believer in the journey versus the destination.

Rosey Fletcher

We did free runs, nonstop. Just me and him. We just went snowboarding. We just went up, we made turns, we slashed. Instead of standing up at the top, letting pressure build staring into the pipe, we went out and had some fun.

Bud Keene

In 2002 the men swept the podium for the U.S., and that's the day snowboarding became a sport. I went to get my hair done a week after, and there were ladies who were 60 in the salon who knew what it was. It was amazing.

Gretchen Bleiler

Snowboarding is my passion. When my pro career was winding down, I didn't feel done by any means. I still loved riding and I was still out there a bunch. The transfer to coaching and to being out there with kids was natural.

Jim Smith

The type of people we get is a mixture, really. Some just want to go out and improve technical aspects of snowboarding. Other people want to learn about jumps. We will help them work on what they need.

Darrell Romero

There was I time when some people thought I might not be able to snowboard again. But I'm fairly dedicated, and I knew it was just a matter of doing the rehabilitation.

Randy Haugen

The whole urban movement in snowboarding is still a little bizarre to me. Those kids can slide on rails, but they don't really know how to snowboard, and this is going to highlight what it's like to really be able to ride a board.

Seth Wescott

Similarly, there is an equally strong niche wanting to go places like Queenstown to learn snowboarding combined with English.

Robert Stevens

Getting these individuals involved in skiing and snowboarding greatly impacts their day-to-day functioning—physical skills, self-confidence and social interaction.

Cara Barrett

Blair is probably the most enthusiastic kid we have on the team. He truly loves to snowboard. The other people feed off it. He's a real inspiration, not because he's just a great snowboarder for being 12 years old but because he's so stoked about snowboarding it rubs off on the rest of us.

Jason Howes

Definitely, snowboarding has taken some skiers. We used to have 30 or 40 skiers, but we've just watched it flip over.

Janis Serrano

That's snowboarding. We found some powder, we came down the mountain, she won gold, I won silver.

Gretchen Bleiler

It's a realization of this dream that I've been chasing for a long time. From the time that I was 10 and started snowboarding, this was what I wanted to do. Bringing that dream to fruition, it's pretty amazing.

Seth Wescott

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better. The underlying message is that snowboarding and skiing safety have to entail a lifestyle commitment. Maintaining a proper fitness level is essential and winter athletes need to incorporate it naturally into their fitness routines.

Dean Walker

The conventional method (of snowboard instruction) is lower body rotation - hips, body and feet.

Danny Martin

A number of our governing bodies are bound and determined to be the best in the world. Witness the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team -- they want to be the best in the world.

Jim Scheer

Snowboarding has always been about more than turning your board down the hill, riding the park or even powder. It's the people and places you get to know that make it interesting. Conditions are always changing, and the event schedule keeps the odometer spinning.

Kurt Hoy

There are still bumps from the snowboard cross.

Daniela Meuli

There's no way 60 kids would be out snowboarding without this support. They're instrumental in us being able to do what we're doing.

Mark Faulkner

Seth wants this to be an interactive experience. He wants fans to see the intricacies of snowboard-cross because the more you understand the sport, the more you appreciate its appeal.

Bill Swain

We use snowboarding as a vehicle for building self confidence, not an end; so you can feel that, if you can do this, you can do anything.

Jason Hirsch

Before you were wealthy, life had limitations. Suddenly you have few limitations. Before, snowboarding in the Alps was a wish. Now you can afford it. But the wife may decide she doesn't want to do it.

Denise Knowles

It's the biggest snowboard event in the world.

Miah Wheeler

It seems like it is a smart thing to wear a helmet if you ski or snowboard. Even if you're not aiming for Olympic gold, but you are skiing or snowboarding, just for fun or pleasure.

Dr. Roald Bahr

In the roots of snowboarding, duct tape was a part of snowboard technology.

Gwyn Howat

Parks cater to the younger crowd and have gotten a lot of kids on a board, whether it's one board (snowboard) or two boards (skis).

Greg Ditrinco

In 2002, the American pipe guys came out and put on an amazing show. That kind of got the buzz going about snowboarding. Snowboarding is really becoming the heart and soul of the Olympic games.

Seth Wescott

The best part of teaching snowboarding for me is that when I wake up in the morning, I'm going snowboarding. I love snowboarding so much, it's ridiculous.

Danny Martin

The current situation finds us receiving so many positive letters and comments from guests because we don't allow snowboarding. That's really why we continue with our policy the way it is.

Chuck English

For me, No. 1, it's gotta be fun, and to improve, set personal goals. Snowboarding is not like other sports, the pressure to win-win-win.

Mark Faulkner

Skiing and snowboarding are sports of freedom.

Geraldine Link

That totally changed how I thought. I don't think I'll be snowboarding again this winter.

Lara Heigis

You definitely fall a lot more. But it's not like you're tumbling on the dirt and rocks. It's just like falling on your skis or snowboard. You end up on your side, sliding.

Cory Ross

The U.S. could win eight or even nine medals in snowboarding alone. It's hip. It's youthful. There are a lot of activities in the Winter Olympics that don't appeal to the younger demographic.

Tracy Anderson

I'm excited about the new skiing and snowboarding opportunities and the efforts to bring resort infrastructure into a better balance with current use levels. The mountain needed ways to update distribution and circulation of their guests.

Rick Newton

Snowboard cross gives me a horrible feeling in my stomach.

Lindsey Jacobellis

When I log on, it pops up right away, so I check out the snowboarding and skiing events? Not so much.

Joe Hubbard

Snowboarding is an expensive sport. Any help you can get with that is useful.

Hayden Turner

A lot of kids in snowboarding are sort of just out for a good time, but he's worked very, very hard to get where he is. We have a good racing program here, there's always been a good race influence here at Sugar Bowl.

Greg Murtha

It's much more related to sports, extreme sports, ... But it's not for snowboarding, or skateboarding, all this kind of stuff.

Francois Girbaud

Sugarloaf is his home. When he's here he interacts with our kids, with our coaches. He takes a tremendous interest in the snowboard program here. He's just proving himself to be an incredibly quality person. He's special.

John Ritzo

We are a snowboard shop, owned and operated by snowboarders, for snowboarders.

Dwayne Davis

This weather has been a skier's dream. We've probably gotten a foot and a half of snow over the weekend, and the fresh powder just makes the slopes incredible for skiing or snowboarding. We've had people coming from all over who have heard about the snow.

Jennifer Hampton

Our average season-pass holder paid $14.64 per day to ski or snowboard Big Mountain. That is an incredible value.

Brian Schott

There are a lot of fun activities at a time when you can generally count on decent weather. April skiing and snowboarding is affordable, it's accessible, it's a little bit quieter experience than you encounter in January, and that can make for a better overall experience.

Scott Kaden

We have done exceptionally well in World Cup events this season, winning medals in snowboarding, freestyle moguls and freestyle aerials, and we are going to Turin with an expectation of winning medals there too.

Craig Phillips

That was the end of snowboarding at Mad River Glen.

Eric Friedman

Dropping in, I was more nervous than I've ever been at a contest before. Once you're snowboarding, it's what we do every day, so it (the nervousness) kind of goes away.

Elena Hight