hardware chains
off the chain an insiders history of snowboarding
off the chain takes readers on a wild ride through the rise of snowboarding from its hippie origins in the backwoods of vermont and california to its present incarnation as a 150 billion global industry . illustrated with 100 color photographs off the chain begins with the sports early days when the pioneers built their own boards and snuck onto the slopes . author rebagliati profiles snowboardings most notorious figures explores the nature of snowboarding culture and tells what touring as a young world cup snowboarder is like . he traces the mainstreaming of the sport the evolution of snowboard fashion and the emergence of shaun white as snowboardings first megastar . hes unsparing in revealing the sports more controversial aspects from groupies to drugs including his own experience having his gold medal revoked and then restored after failing a drug test . rebagliati pulls no punches in this lively mix of personal memoir and sports history .