In the end, it's really not that hard to get sponsored for snowboarding.
Other booty included Tiji Bed Head hair products and Nike ACG ski wear, which was given to Kyle MacLachlan, Rachel Hunter, Ione Skye, Matt LeBlanc and other celebrities when the company sponsored a snowboard clinic for a day.
But now ski brands like Salomon and Rossignol sell aggressively to the core audience by sponsoring professional snowboarding teams and using cool graphics on the boards.
A party sponsored by a snowboard company was taking shape.
The organization also sponsors competitions in snowboarding and in Alpine, freestyle and cross-country skiing.
Swanson lives in Costa Mesa and is sponsored by Orange County's Signal Snowboards, Von Zipper and Active Ride Shop Costa Mesa.
Brock Crouch, an 18-year-old based at Mammoth Mountain, Calif., several hours east of San Francisco, has been snowboarding since he was 3. His sponsors have paid his travel expenses for the past three or four years.
By the time he was in his late teens, Johnstone was a sponsored boarder and was the one being filmed for the snowboarding videos.
Monster is a major sponsor of adventure sports, backing athletes and events in mixed martial arts, snowboarding and motorcycle racing.
Other legislation sponsored by Gibbs included bills to extend Colorado's habitat stamp program, to create a specialty license plate for skiing and snowboarding, to overhaul regulations on oil and gas drilling operations, and to facilitate local planning and fundraising for fighting wildfires.
Professional snowboarding.
