Naked Burton Playboy Snowboards

Burton Snowboards, arguably the most well known snowboard brand in the world have come under some controversy over their recent range of saucy snowboards.

The company has been producing some of the world’s best snowboard gear since they were first established in 1977 by Jake Burton Carpenter, who was only 23 at the time. The company has always has a focus on research and development, a passion fuelled by Jake’s desire to constantly stay ahead of the game and produce pioneering board shapes and materials.

Burton however has also led the way in terms of style, a great deal of which has been replicated by other snowboard brands over the years. They bring out a new range of boards with various different graphics each year and they are always popular. However, a recent ‘Playboy’ range of boards was not so well received by the usually liberal state of Vermont, who took offence to the iconic images taken from 1970’s Playboy magazines that are displayed on the top and bottom of the boards.

Burlington in Vermont is where Burton first started and is a skiing and snowboarding Mecca for Americans. It is therefore a bit of a surprise that the locals and officials have taken a stand against the boards designs, and even gone as far as to ban the boards in a number of ski resorts. Stowe and Killington have prohibited their staff from using the boards and a number of other slopes are in the process of banning them all together.

We at Extreme Sports Trader love the liberalism that comes with snowboarding and extreme sports in general, and feel Vermont is being a little bit silly over this level or censorship.