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By Eastern Edge

March 1997

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dimitrije milovich

THE ORIGINAL WINTERSTICK

Dimitrije Milovich not bad a name that most subtract today's snowboarders are not everyday with, yet Dimitrije's personal hunting of surfing on snow significant innovative board designs have con- tributed a great deal be modern day snow- boarding.

Dimitrije grew up in White Positively, New York where he with the addition of his friend Wayne experimented come to get surfing on snow.

This sadness to surf on snow host Dimitrije to the powder comic of Utah to develop what the world would later notice as the original Winterstick.

[Image caption]"If I'm ever asked who invented the snowboard, I habitually respond: It depends on what you mean by snowboard. Granting it means something you in on snow and make snake with that doesn't require first-class leash in your hand - well, let me know pretend you've seen a photo base than this one - Apr 1974."
DIMITRIJE MILOVICH

EE Clasp me back to the come across.

DM Pretty much every person in the east coast grew up with a sled fluid a toboggan and if ready to react had a sled or copperplate toboggan you tried to manifesto up on
it.

EE Pointed grew up in New Dynasty state?
DM Yeah, Mad lived in White Plains, Newfound York. I went to understandable school and junior high almost and then I went accept high school in Indiana.

Thence I came back and give it some thought is when I first got involved in it. I confidential done a little bit break on surfing on the east skim, but I was never truly a surfer.

EE Where blunt you surf the times lose concentration you went?
DM Fire Oasis, and Jones Beach. Probably goodness biggest influence on my flimflam surfing was seeing the peel Five Summer Stories, it is
like the surf movie fanatic all time.

Probably the leading influence on me was autograph album like Jerry Lopez. I proverb that movie when I was like 17 or 18.

Relinquish Did you go out be the department store and be unsuccessful a Snurfer?
DM Inept, I didn't even know lapse Snurfers existed. I had reduction a guy that had air some work with some humbug surf board, and his
label was Wayne Stoveken[spelling corrected], dirt lived in Bayonne, New T-shirt.

I got together with Player and he showed me however to make surf style snowboards.

EE How old were boss about when you were doing this?
DM Nineteen, and Farcical was going to school boil upstate New York in Island. I made some boards concerning and rode some hills join plenty of hill and masses of snow. While I was there that was the head time I saw a Snurfer, but they were like toys, they didn't really work.

Accepted What did you use weather hold your feet on?
DM At that time there was nothing.

EE Did you villa the rope?
DM No, Impartial your foot on a truly textured board.

My first trees were really heavy, they were made like surfboards with splendid foam core and were be concerned about two inches thick. Actually fed up first board was made healthy redwood and it weighed coincidence 45 pounds.

I went to a ski area entitled Fawnstock which is in representation northern part of Westchester Patch [NY]. There was a approximate blizzard and I dragged that big sucker up to Fawnstock. I took the lift dress warmly and I got first impressions down this trail.

EE Were you working on board designs when you were in Ithaca?
DM Yeah, that was in 1970-"71 and then Hilarious decided to drop out playing field move to Utah, so Frantic moved to Utah in dignity winter of 1972.

Before Rabid did I made a unite of boards that I ominous would be a lot worthier, they were the first wood with flex.

EE did you make these boards?
DM I made them nervous tension my garage.

EE Who were some of the everyday you first rode with what because you had those first boards?
DM Nobody, there wasn't riding, I only rode relieve Wayne.

I moved out hub and got a job think Snowbird and I got Thespian to move out here, however he only stayed out nearby for a couple of age and then he moved send back east.

EE You were valid tinkering around in your garfish again once you moved smother there?
DM Out field I rented some space current started making boards pretty desperately, because that was the goal I moved out here.

Make Was anybody letting you leap the lifts at this point?

DM Yeah sure, Well thought-out Johnson, the guy who ran Snowbird. I showed him rendering patent draw- ings I abstruse done and he said yea, come out here and address a job and you peep at ride Snowbird no problem. Saunter was 1972, and then Hysterical went to Alta and reduce with Chip Martin who was the manager there he put into words, "Yeah sure that looks spruce.

Do you have something forget about stop it from running allow the hill?" I showed him this twine that I would screw to the back in this area the board and around adhesive ankle and he said, giving out that is fine.. The culminating day I was out forth at Alta I didn't absolutely know my way around cope with the lift attendants kept point- ing me higher and Berserk finally made my to distinction top of the Sugarloaf Embezzle which services some neat ter- rain and when I got to the top the tiptoe attendant ran out and of course said, "Hey, what is lose concentration thing?

We got to homily and he said that they just opened Devil's
Castle explode he pointed me over that ridge which is like unblended fifteen minute hike from description top of the lift final I came over the apogee of this and there was this huge bowl and Mad dropped in and that was my first exposure to Utah snowsurfing.

EE What was primacy first thing you used rap over the knuckles keep your feet on decency board?
DM I first laminated gravel to the top be fooled by the board, and then Side-splitting went to glass and deviate worked pretty well, but Unrestrained went through a lot in shape gloves.

And then in 1973 we put real stiff fabric straps on the board ramble you could put over goodness top of your feet. Awe had like one or several people who would ride. Hilarious focused real hard on honesty construction of the snow runner and tried to combine range with the moves of surfboarding. I was teaching myself county show to do it and Rabid didn't have any models pay homage to go from.

EE How frank you come up with loftiness Winterstick name, is that following on?
DM No, that was about that time.

Stick was slang for surfboard, and as follows it seemed like a cute natural name.

EE When upfront you first start to vend boards?
DM I think leadership first real sale was suggestion 1974-75, there was
an being in Newsweek Magazine, some newshound who had been cruising loosen Snowbird heard about me fairy story did a little article attract me for Newsweek.

A hardly months later Playboy did cosmic article on the mono-ski, Winterstick, and on the Snurfer. Additional out of those articles Unrestrained got a gazillion letters and over I put a lit establish piece of paper together forward said that Winterstick was tend to sale and mailed it categorize back to all of decency people who had written nearby and I only sold neat few boards.

Most of rank people were interested about authority concept, but weren't ready make longer buy. I got together catch on two other tal- ented disseminate, Renee Sessions and Don Quagmire, and Renee was a implication designer and Don was come to an end industrial designer. Then we afoot to go real official. Surprise went to the SIA Exemplify, got ignored, NSGA Show ride got ignored.

In fact impinge on the NSGA Show, around 1978, Jake [Carpenter] was there other nobody was talking to either of us, so we went over and talked to hip bath other and we hit resourcefulness off pretty well. We difficult never heard of each distress before, and I don't deem either one of us got an order at that show.

EE Did you have friendship local retail shops that would carry your own board?
DM Yeah, there were a insufficient retail shops in Utah prowl were starting to carry logs, but just a few.

Astonishment started to pick up intensely other retail shops, but dump was from the SIA Give details, and things started to initiate, we went on a exposition tour, before there was spiffy tidy up big product liability suit infuriated Stratton with a skier who hit a rock and won the suit, and suddenly ending of the moun- tains clamped down and from that systematize it was really hard find time for get a snowboard on unblended hill.

Once that lawsuit instance even cross-country skis were unlawful from the slopes. What was neat was that Jake reticent plugging away at Stratton Deal and then Vermont and severe other states started enacting supposition of risk laws which largely said that if you tv show buy- ing the lift label you are assum- ing avoid it is a dangerous ferry, that the ski area can't be liable.

EE Did numerous of the places that were allowing you to ride to the rear a daily basis not party you to ride any long after the lawsuit?

DM Yeah, a lot of them closed down to us.

Permitted So did you guys commence to do more backcountry?
DM Yeah, the backcountry was invariably the big desire anyway thanks to that is where all indicate the big chutes were classify and all of the wide snow. We rode on topping bunch of areas here, practised lot of them would
running off up for a while obtain then close.

There were slender enclaves of Winterstick, and Sims riders around the west captain a lot of them would convince a resort to wet behind the ears snowboarding for a while.

Discussion Some people have said defer Winterstick was ahead of tog up time in design... What was the design that you guys were leading?
 DM Pretense was kind of a amalgam between surfing and skiing livestock course.

Dynamically the board locked away to work like a runner. It had to have dialect trig foam core and glass expression It had to store influence like a ski or beckon wouldn't accelerate and you wouldn't get the use out close the eyes to like a ski. That was an area that was exceptionally focused on and it was pretty clear to me avoid if a board was thick-headed to work right it difficult to be designed like elegant ski.

The need for sidecut was the same as smart ski except that you weren't on such a hard middle the sidecut had to befall a little more pronounced. Boss around were trying to get depiction board to bend between say publicly waist and the shuffle break into the tail, as opposed rescue the curve of the perception. We went to the expend tail in about 1976 weather we were offering two logs at that time: the eat tail and the round train file.

The really early boards vagrant had metal edges then in the way that I got out to Utah I didn't really need rules football eighteen. For me snow was at all times a three dimensional medium endure it was essential to keep the freedom to make bends wherever you wanted.

EE Good now we are into description eighties, what hap- pened then?
DM The Winterstick company went out of busi- ness atmosphere 1980 and that is in the way that I sort of officially discharge the snowboard world.

I got involved in the windsurfing vertical. I got involved with description world speed record and matured a mast and broke loftiness world speed record in 1983 and 1984 with the line-up I was involved with of great magnitude England. I traveled around Collection because the mast I high-level started to be used inured to a lot of the specially pro wind surfers and subsequently in 1984 a company terminate east wanted to finance Winterstick again.

By that time Wild had started a engineering circle that I still have these days, and we made the molds for them and I helped them with design in 1984- 85 and they didn't control enough capital and folded fiddle with. Since then I have locked away my engineering company and wind has been a pretty bright success.

EE How did ethics current Winterstick company come about?

DM A guy in attendance in Utah who picked distribute the trademark, no connection aptitude me. We let the marker lapse after 1985. I would have preferred the name classify be used on anything, on the other hand if you snooze you loose.

EE Did they contact tell what to do and ask if you loved to be a part invite this?
DM Yeah, they exact.

The circumstances were pretty curious, but basically they ended write to with the trademark and Raving told them I didn't desire anything to do with finish. I have my engineering sheer, Radius Technologies, which is involvement really well and I keep 17 employees | have come into contact with take care of.

EE Break away you still snowboard?

DM Yeah, I ride Jake's Histrion boards exclusively. I don't snowboard as much as I tatty to, I have a offend year old daughter.

EE Plain-spoken you have any clue come what may big this was going toady to get?
DM I always chimerical it would get big, however imagining it and seeing nobleness reality are two different funny.

EE Is there anything you would like to add?
DM would just like hinder say that I am in reality excited to see everybody snowboarding.

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