Sunday, January 14, 1996 - North Shore News - 23

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

REPLACE CHRIS Prior’ 3 sweater with a hawaiian shirt and this could be ascene from a surf board

shaper's shop on Oahu’s North Shore. In fact, Prior Is shaping a high-performance snowboard in

North: Vancouver. garage. The former sailboard designer switched directions three years ago
he: Meclded to concentrate all his energies on snowboard design.

; when a
. Blackcomb turned him on to snow-

routine ‘ski: “trip “to

boarding. °

“| figured these things couldn’t.

“be: that hard to build, so'1 got

whom Prior, says

ins knowledge’ of new,

aterials and their. applications —

formance, Snowboards --

‘orporates ‘different carbons-and
ar, “and: better: resins, to make

eta a and three second-
e résults on the World fd Cup cir-

‘year. under my own-brand name,

involved in trying to make a board

“that was. better than anything out
yon the market,” says Prior, of a

fancy that turned into a full-time
passion. “I knew’a lot about mate-

‘rials, from working on sailboards

so L-worked on improving the per-

. formance of boards.”

And soon the world’ s best rid-

-. ers came calling,

““I was able to gear my boards
to ‘the pro-rider niche because

.they’re always looking for new

cutting-edge Prior
explains.

Local riders may soon get their

designs.”

_ own chance to ride a Prior as-the

young: entrepreneur has plans. to
open a store on Pemberton Avenue

_in North Vancouver,

““T-hope to do 2,000 boards next

”

Prior says.

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