Snowboarding starts as a fringe experiment in the 1960s, cobbled together by surfers and skateboarders who wanted a way to ride snow, and this film traces how that experiment became an Olympic sport. Narrator Jason Lee guides the story through archival footage of homemade boards, garage workshops, and the resorts that initially banned the sport outright, refusing to let snowboarders on the same slopes as skiers. Dozens of pioneering riders appear on camera to describe the fights for legitimacy: petitioning resorts for access, building the competitions and magazines that gave the sport structure, and watching it get folded into the mainstream sports establishment they'd once been shut out of. The film, produced by Grain Media with backing from Burn Energy Drink, leans on period photography and interview testimony rather than reenactment, letting the people who lived it narrate their own highs and setbacks. It closes with snowboarding's arrival as an accepted, commercialized sport, a long way from the parking-lot outsiders who started it.