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Or, how to have summer-time fun on a 1960’s era “Snurfer” - AKA a “vintage snowboard”.  These boards were invented here in W. MI, and manufactured for a few years by Muskegon-based (at the time) Brunswick Inc.  I’ve owned this one since I was 9 or 10 years old and get it out every winter, and in the summer time bring it along on trips to the Silver Lake Sand Dunes.  The secret to sand snurfing is “don’t fall”. 

Oh - I forgot to mention.  On these old boards there are no such niceties as “bindings”...you’re literally just standing on a bunch of large staples set into the top surface of the board.

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1. Michelle on August 18, 2007

   That looks fun!! John has a board like that he has had since he was a kid too and never tried using it on the Dunes. He’ll have to give it a try. Michelle

2. Olivia on August 19, 2007

   Great video, Mike :) Looks like huge fun for you AND the kids!

3. tzMedia on August 20, 2007

   That looks insanely fun… or scary, don’t run into the trees might be a good thought too!
   I remember my trips to the Lake Michigan sand dunes areas, as a kid.
   You start running down the sand dunes and be for you know it you are running so fast, your legs just won’t keep up! Plunging head first into the sand after gravity wins the battle.
   We used to use are old plastic toboggans, the ones that looked like little orange boats.

4. Boyink (Author) on August 20, 2007

   Heh…if you watch my daughter does exactly that trying to keep up with me…;)

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