Hand painted photograph of semi pro snowboarder Roger Cameron

Hand painted photograph of semi-pro snowboarder, Roger Cameron, riding the modified "twin tip" 1989 Burton Cruise 155 snowboard in the museum's collections, 2017.0240.01. According to the donor, Roger Cameron, "This was my first snowboard with steel edges and set me on my mission to become a sponsored snowboarder in the early 90’s. I spent one season on this board before it was retired but I ended up coming back to it in 1992 to experiment with the shape. In the early 90’s freestyle snowboarding was progressing at a rate that was faster than companies could keep up with their board shapes. Tricks were all about adding another rotation and to aid in that progression snowboarders would cut down the elongated shapes of the nose and sometimes tail of the board to reduce size and weight. This particular board had a very elongated nose which was cut-down in a way to mirror the tail shape and make it more of a “twin-tip” which was a type of design that was eventually adopted by snowboard companies. Other cut-down modifications sometimes included tracing the radius of a dinner plate and then trimming the board with a jigsaw. By 1993 companies where catching up with the rider modified designs and started producing shorter twin tip shapes. In 1994 Flite Snowboards of Rhode Island paid tribute to the “cut down” trend and created a blank board where you could cut your own shape which was an industry first. Snowboard designs of the past two decades went on to evolve and eventually influenced the shapes and designs of skis."

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