Worlds first patented snowboard born in Chicago suburbs

He never got to attempt a Double McTwist 1260 to finish a halfpipe, but Don Burgeson of Glen Ellyn used to get stoked riding his snowboard long before Gold Medal snowboarding icon Shaun White was born. The word snowboard didn t even exist when Burgeson first hopped on his. We used to call it a bunker, Burgeson says, toting the 12pound, oak first snowboard invented by his father and two other relatives more than 70 years ago. I don t know if that s Swedish