Dimitrije milovich biography

Dimitrije Milovich is a name that most of today's snowboarders are not familiar with, yet Dimitrije's personal pursuit of surfing on snow and innovative board designs have con- tributed a great deal to modern day snow- boarding. Dimitrije grew up in White Plains, New York where he and his friend Wayne experimented with surfing on snow.

This desire to surf on snow drove Dimitrije to the powder fields of Utah to develop what the world would later know as the original Winterstick. If it means something you ride on snow and make turns with that doesn't require a leash in your hand - well, let me know if you've seen a photo earlier than this one - April EE Take me back to the beginning.

DM Pretty much everybody in the east coast grew up with a sled or a toboggan and if you had a sled or a toboggan you tried to stand up on it. EE You grew up in New York state? I went to elementary school and junior high there and then I went to high school in Indiana. Then I came back and that is when I first got involved in it. I had done a little bit of surfing on the east coast, but I was never really a surfer.

EE Where did you surf the times that you went?

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Probably the biggest influence on my snow surfing was seeing the movie Five Summer Stories, it is like the surf movie of all time. Probably the biggest influence on me was somebody like Jerry Lopez. I saw that movie when I was like 17 or EE Did you go out to the department store and buy a Snurfer? DM No, I didn't even know that Snurfers existed.