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Snowboarding was invented when an American, Sherman Poppen, strapped two skis together for his daughters in Michigan in 1965.
But it was another decade, as skateboarding swept the world, before mass-produced boards were common, and 1981 before the first competition was held, in Ohio.
The Alpine events - parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom - are all about setting the fastest time possible over a downhill course.
Freestyle - the half-pipe - is all about impressing the judges with good technique on a specially-built skatepark-style high-sided run.
Boardercross, the newest snowboarding event, falls outside both categories. It has no skiing equivalent and is simply a six-person race.
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