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At Action Sport Optics we are leaders in sport & lifestyle optics with over 25 years industry experience. We pride ourselves in premium products from industry leading brands backed up by next level product knowledge & superior customer service. Eyewear is our vision!

Powder Jet , wooden powder boards

10:46 am, August 25, 2011

ASO is loving what Powder Jet is doing, another Vermont based company, making really cool performance wooden powder boards, hand built in Vermont. Check em out! Winter is right around the bend.

www.powderjets.com

Danny Macaskill Industrial Revolution

3:44 pm, August 19, 2011

ASO loves anything that makes us say WOW, and this definitely did, enjoy.

snowboarding in 1939

12:15 pm, August 17, 2011

The debate of who actually invented snowboarding has been a long and hard argument. ASO thinks this video settles the argument. Here is a video of Gunnar Burgson, and the other co-inventors of the snowboard ( Harvey Burgeson and Vern Wicklund ) shredding it up in the 1940’s! They hold a US patent dated 1939.