i like snowboarding.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Snowboarding is a recreational activity and Olympic and Paralympic sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the United States in the 1960s, became a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998 and first featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014. Its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since. Modern snowboarding began in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so he would have some control as they stood on the board and glided downhill. Dubbed the \"snurfer\" (combining snow and surfer) by his wife Nancy, the toy proved so popular among his daughters' friends that Poppen licensed the idea to a manufacturer, Brunswick Corporation, that sold about a million snurfers over the next decade. And, in 1966 alone over half a million snurfers were sold. In February 1968, Poppen organized the first snurfing competition at a Michigan ski resort that attracted enthusiasts from all over the country.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have never been snowboarding."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Neither have I, but sliding around the snow, both feet attached to the board, it sounds super fun!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It does sound fun and they make it look easy, but I feel like it would be hard."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They do make it look easy, especially at the Winter Olympics. Those athletes train their whole lives though!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It looks so fun. i wonder how long it took them"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Probably most of their lives, which is unfortunate since the popularity of the sport is in a decline."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder why it is declining."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it's mostly measured in terms of equipment sales, so it's tough to know how accurate that decline actually is."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder if the competitions have experienced a decrease in spectators too."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Probably. Because of the tendency of the rate of any profit system to fall over time, it seems like this was inevitable."}]