"Sherman Poppen was one of the earliest originators of the snowboard, designing a product he called the Snurfer in the late 1960s. His prototype Snurfer was created by connecting his young daughter's two skis together with cross bars of wood. It was an invention born on a snowy Christmas day when his daughters wanted to sled on the snow-covered sand dunes near their home in Muskegon, Michigan, .."