![]() They put up a plastic banner and someone carried a folding table all the way out there, at which you could sign up and get your number - which you pinned to your cool 1970's snow vest. By the mid seventies, Muskegon Community College sponsored an annual "World Wide Snurfer Competition" on a remote hill behind the Muskegon landmark "Blockhouse." If you got there early enough you parked in the Blockhouse parking lot and hiked back to the site. This model included a 5" metal rudder that extended out of the center contoured bottom surface about a half inch. After a few years, Brunswick introduced the Pro Snurfer model which had a laminated wood design, and small white plastic spikes on the top which afforded slightly better traction. Having tried that as a kid, I can report that the sand stuck to the wax, and if you got any momentum going down the biggest of the three sugar bowl hills, the snurfer soon grabbed hold of the sand and threw you bodily and usually face first into the hot sand. They were originally marketed to be used on the Muskegon sand dunes in both the winter and the summer. You rubbed ski wax onto the wood, but it made little difference. The rope was yellow, the bottom was smooth and there was no rudder. The first ones were yellow with large, industrial grade staples that stuck up far enough to get a good grip with your snowmobile boots, at least until you caked so much snow onto them that your feet slid off. He went to the local Brunswick company and got them to produce the boards, and his wife gave it the name. The "Snurfer: was invented in 1965 by Sherm Poppin when he attached two skiis together, tied a rope to the front and gave it to his daughter to play with in the Muskegon, Michigan snow. Snowboarders being banned some most ski resorts. ![]()
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