The extreme sporting craze formally known as mountain boarding was created by a group of snowboarders who wanted a new sport to participate in over the summer months.
Although mountain boarding - also known as all-terrain boarding or dirtboarding - was created in the 1970s, it was the 1990s that saw it really take off. Now more than one million people are believed to take part worldwide.
The real beauty of the activity is that, unlike its parent sports, it can be done on almost any surface and is not dependent on the weather. The sport involves travelling down any sloped surface (providing it is safe) at speed on a board mounted on four wheels.
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