Winterstick: The Best Snowboard Shape Ever Made
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Winterstick Snowboards was started in 1972 by Dimitrije Milovich. The Swallowtail and the Roundtail were two boards that were way ahead of their times. The Winterstick swallow tail design has inspired many board builders today and still stands the test of time. Please watch this video to learn how Winterstick played a major role in snowboard history.
Here are some links to some good Winterstick riding footage:
Apocalypse Snow: • Apocalypse Snow, le fi...
April's Footage (early Winterstick POW riding) • The Winterstick Compan...
1979 Winterstick riding footage: • 1979 Winterstick Snowb...
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Thank you!
One of my alltime favorite brands. Still have mine from the late 90's. Love their new stuff and will hopefully own one someday.
Awesome!
Not to mention the best name for a snowboard anyone has ever come up with.
Such a great name!! I agree!
Great video! Often a forgotten brand that was one of the Big 3 power players in the early days. Thanks for the photo credits too, always appreciated :)
Thank you, I’m so glad you saw this video. I love your TH-cam channel!! I really love these old Wintersticks. I feel lucky to have the two that I have.
@@themidwestshredder in the Transworld Snowboarding Snow Craft Generations Doc, I loaned out some Roundtails to the crew and you can see them ripping on the mid 80's RT + RT Plus models, they still go. The previous late 70's style (solid color rountails and swallowtails) of the first gen are a little more fragile and could snap. But the models you have had more of a reinforced structure after the core was beefed up.
@@WinterstickDotNet that is so cool! I love the Snowcraft documentaries. I’ve watched those over and over again and I remember them ripping on the roundtails. Thanks for the info.
I still have my 70's swallow tail with the metal skag. It is absolutely the best powder board. the stand up top nipples are huge.
That is cool to hear! It blows my mind how good this shape still is!! Way ahead of his time!
so dope you have those
True time capsules 🤙🏽
Cool history lesson. Jack Burton, had the right idea to go after the masses. Winterstick was definitely ahead of its time, now everyone wants to backcountry.
Yeah very true! Even today it would be difficult to run a snowboard company with just backcountry snowboards.
Who is Jack Burton? 😂
@@shreddonkers haha he meant Jake. Maybe autocorrect or something.
its weird that you are talking about the roundtail first.. because that roundtail didnt show up until the 80s. these two boards are great examples of the evolution of the materials. The 3d base is called a concave channel. This is a concept derived from surfing. Early sims boards are also convex (not concave) and have subtle channels in the base. after about 1986 everything went flat.. I bet because its harder to make and it doesnt really have that much affect on control. that big nose is only good in deep pow.. unless you were rich back then you could only put your money on one board. So the more versatile boards became the norm. Burtons could work on hard ice pack..loose granular.. Sims were lighter and had lots of flex. So they were good in pow and the mountain. Dimetri's company went on to make windsurfing parts and other kinds of dynamic industrial designs. gnu was actually the first company to really take a look at skiing and decide "you know what? Snowboards should be more like skis..and added real camber and a real ski based side cut and smaller tip and tails. later Burton and sims started upgrading their manufacturing in AUSTRIA and ITALY where the top SKIS are made around the world....they all moved on to ski based construction.
Hi, I started off by showing the roundtail, but I didn’t do that to make people think it came out before the swallowtail. I was just showing both boards. Both boards I showed in this video came out the same year so I didn’t think the order mattered. Sorry for the confusion.
@@themidwestshredder its all good. The heritage of winterstick has to be the swallowtail. I think the roundtail was an attempt at making a more resort friendly board later. There is another model that has flipped up tail that came around 1986. That was looking more like the typical snowboard we see today.
@@xpez9694 thanks for the great info. I agree with you about the roundtail. The swallowtail is one of my favorite boards. Do you have any old boards? If so, which one is your favorite?
@@themidwestshredder sims TK from 1986, Morrow Spoon 1993, Sims swallowtail 1985, K2 El Dorado 1997, Palmer Crown 2008, OUIJA- Iguchi Burton 1993, Rossi- Experience 2010. I try to get some from different eras. Sims TK is the favorite for sure. It was the first modern snowboard in my book that could ride all terrain..
@@xpez9694 those are nice boards. The TK 👍🏽 Very cool man. I collect mostly 80’s stuff.
Hey Jimmy, great to learn the history of the different snowboards! Do you know if they were waxing the base at the time? I usually find myself hating to scrape the board in the winter but if I had to wax and scape one of those, I think I'd probably need a full case of beer :D
Haha too funny! In the early days, most people were using more of a rub on wax. They were even experimenting with that. I have a few early wooden Burton boards with the wax still on them.