{"id":827,"date":"2019-08-02T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgeneration.ch\/?p=827"},"modified":"2019-12-02T23:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:43:56","slug":"der-grossvater-des-snowboardens-ist-tot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgeneration.ch\/en\/der-grossvater-des-snowboardens-ist-tot\/","title":{"rendered":"The grandfather of snowboarding is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">Minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Sherman R. Poppen, a man whom many consider the father of modern snowboarding, has died according to family members. Poppen died on Wednesday, July 31 and turned 89 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poppen is best known for his invention of the Snurfer, a board with a holding rope on the front. <br>He created the board on Christmas Day 1965 and it was built as a simple toy to entertain his children who, by all accounts, thought it was a hit.<br>Poppen saw their joy and patented the Snurfer a year later, and the rest is history. Soon after, the inhabitants of Michigan, the United States and eventually the world would take notice of Poppen's innovative snowboard.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherman R. Poppen, ein Mann, den viele als Vater des modernen Snowboardens betrachten, ist nach Angaben von Familienmitgliedern gestorben. Poppen starb am Mittwoch, den 31. Juli und wurde 89 Jahre alt. Poppen ist vor allem bekannt f\u00fcr seine Erfindung des Snurfer, einem Board mit einem Halteseil an der Vorderseite. Er schuf das Board am Weihnachtstag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[11694,11695],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sherman-r-poppen","tag-snurfer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Der Grossvater des Snowboardens ist tot - Board Generation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgeneration.ch\/en\/der-grossvater-des-snowboardens-ist-tot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Der Grossvater des Snowboardens ist tot - Board Generation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sherman R. 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