POGO
POWDER SURFER
Pogo Snowboards was founded in 1983 by engineers and Snowboard pioneers Yogi Maerz and Martin Sammet. All Pogo boards are still handcrafted in our 400 year old farm in southern Germany by a group of dedicated snowboarders and longboarders. Performance and quality are fundamental for our boards, that's why we use only the best materials available and our longterm perfected special construction. This way we create long lasting and therefore environmentally sustainable products which we back up with a free lifelong repair service. As our boards don't lose their characteristics, a pogo board will instantly become your best companion, the one you can rely on in any situation any time. Every board is unique: a superb wooden topsheet with mother of pearl inlay or an individual handpainted design, your dream board is possible.
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This board was built in 1983 by Jogi and Martin. It is 150cm long and 27cm wide at the waist. Originally, it had 2 side fins, but they were quickly removed to increase speed and lift. The board had a double-concave base of P-tex, and a convex nose. It worked great in deep powder and hard piste was possible because of the steel edges. Bindings were made from skiboot outer shells, a pre-historic soft binding.
In 1984-85 six more were built in the same shape for friends.
The original shape was lengthened on this board. We competed in the first Snowboard World Championships in St Moritz in 1987 with it. It was an unforgettable trip in Jogi´s old VW bus complete with broken clutch and gigantic joints while we stayed in an old Swiss Air Attack bunker.
This board was our first without the swallowtail. Martin built it for the 1987 World Championships in Chatel. The after-party went through the whole night but in the morning this board was gone. Luckily, an organizer of the event picked up the thief hitchhiking with 2 boards (in those times snowboards were very rare and she thought it strange). When word got out of the missing board, she took Martin to the hotel where she had dropped the bum earlier. Martin got his board back and the thief got a knuckle sandwich. The board was ridden again by Martin at the 10 year anniversary of the Stuben Longboard Classic Race in 2009.
Martin and Jogi made the first snowboard descent of the 6768 meter high Huascaran with these light weight touring boards they made for their trip through Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and finally Peru.
At the end of the 80´s we built our first slalom boards to take to the European Championships. These were set-up with the ACS trucks. Our first models were built of fiberglassbut were quickly replaced by the more robust titanal. We still use it in our longboards.
The first real Powdergun. This board could go anywhere and some hardcore Pogo-fans still swear by this swallowtail.
At the end of the 1980´s and beginning of the 1990´s there were a few winters with very low snowfall. Carving became the trend and the with it, the Hot Edge. This board was studied by many leading companies in the growing snowboard industry because of it´s extraordinary performance.
The first assymetrical Pogo, it was shorter than the Hot Edge and had a shorter turning radius. Again, the Hardcore surpassed all boards in performance tests.
Shortly after the introduction of the Hardcore came the Overdose and Impact, longer carving boards for an expanding market.
The 3-Style was the first assymetrical freeride board.
The skinny Reefer stood out because of it´s uncommon shape.
Jibben was the new thing to do in the early 90's. With 28cm width in the middle and a length of 150cm, the Pogo Trashcan was the ideal device for skate and destroy.
The Defy Foly is a lengendary competition held in Lac Clusaz, France on the first of May. A very steep, narrow ramp is built leading into a small lake. The idea is to sail the greatest distance before sinking into the lake. Speeds were measured at more than 120km/h. A snowboarder had never won, as the monoskiers always dominated. We built 3 Powdergun-like prototypes and took the first 3 places.
This brand was begun in the mid-90´s as the Pogo Freestyle mark. The were produced in 3 lengths. Distribution was handled by Klaus Grüb from Skatebox Stuttgart.
Before Titanal became such big hype, at the end of the 90´s we built an Impact of the hi-tech material. This board had phenomenal ice-grip. Unfortunately, these boards were very easy to destroy, so we only built them by special request. We always want the Pogo image to remain one of a supremely long-life board.
This was the first Prototype of this snowboard series. The goal was to create a modern powderboard for softboots and round tail. It was build in 1997 by Martin in Titanal-Construction. The board had back then already a really nice and long nose and quite some Taper. By the look and feel it reminded riders a lot to a surfboard.
Pogo employee Thierry Wenzel created these mountable lightweight approach skis. All the Pogo employees had touring fever.
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