Ole Sherms getting some play these days as he's getting in the Smithsonian’s Museums. Off one of the links from the press release is this interview from him back in 1994.
"So you think that if you hadn't written that letter snowboarding would still be Snurfing?"
'I think it would have stayed as Snurfer and the sport of Snurfing. The other thing that happens when you have something like that and it goes in the public domain it's not used anymore and by law you lose it. There are a lot of words that we have in our language now that are really manufactured things. Remember for years people never made copies they Xeroxed them. Anyway it was a kind of fun time. I've given a couple boards to some of the shops here in Steamboat and I autographed them and they have them hanging up in the shop.'
That autographed board is safely hanging in my basement Sherm. He brought it into the shop after we had hooked up in Vail at the Transworld Conference. He asked me to teach him how to ride the bumps. I told him that bumps were something you avoid but "ok." Then out of appreciation he brought us the stick.
Congrats on the Smithsonian Sherm, stay out of them moguls.
Nice you still have it Johan! That is rad to hear, I have yet to meet him but always hear about him at work.
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