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Double cork is snowboarding's must-have trick in Vancouver

Doubling up on double corks 2010

It is snowboarding's oldest active competition, and year after year, it's the home of the sport's most progressive riding.

Jake Burton: Snowboarding Comes Home to the Burton US Open Jake Burton 2010

It had it all: leopardskin carpet, slight beer pong, early Burton boards on the walls, old US open posters signed by sponsored riders, a pool table, table football, arcade games, Jägermeister on tap and, best of all, locals with good stories of snowboarding's roots.

Stratton, Vermont: where snowboarding was born Sam Haddad 2010

It is snowboarding's oldest active competition, and year after year, it's the home of the sport's most progressive riding.

Snowboarding Comes Home to the Burton US Open Jake Burton 2010

It is snowboarding's oldest active competition, and year after year, it's the home of the sport's most progressive riding.

Jake Burton: Snowboarding Comes Home to the Burton US Open 2010

Snowboarding Team uniforms for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, many of snowboarding's pioneers, devotees and newbies may take a moment of pause.

Kelly O'Reilly: Burton Tapped to Design Uniforms for the 2010 U.S. Snowboarding Team 2009

Fans and athletes rave about snowboarding's rad atmosphere.

USATODAY.com 2006

In the end, Nagano did nothing to dispel snowboarding's bad-boy image.

Into Thick Air 2008

This is the opposite of what happens in snowboarding's parent sport, skateboarding, where you get points if you don't hold onto the board.

Bigger Tricks Are Better 2007

KREISCHBERG, Austria (AP) Risto Mattila won the the first big air event at snowboarding's world championships Saturday, helping Finland capture three of the top four places.

USATODAY.com - Finns rule snowboard world championships 2003