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Article: SANDBOARDERS HEAD OVER HEELS WITH SPORT.(Recreation)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2004
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - The way Dr. Dune sees it, sandboarding is an ancient sport.
Elephants, he swears, have been sliding down sand dunes on their bellies in Namibia, Africa, as long as there have been sand dunes in Namibia. Archaeologists have unearthed sliding devices in Egypt as old as Jesus Christ.
So you could call the sport's booming popularity a renaissance.
"Sandboarding has been around longer than surfing or snowboarding," says Lon Beale, aka Dr. Dune and the owner of the world's first and only sandboard park, the Sand Master, in north Florence. "But sandboarders were insulated."
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