CLEAN: Turks proudly take to slopes on traditional lazboard

Could it be that the world's first ever snowboard was made in Turkey? Villagers in the northeast of the country say they've been tearing down the Kackar mountains, batons in hand, for the last 150 years. But their equivalent of the snowboard has a very different name -- it's known as the lazboard. Rize Turkey (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Could it be that the world's first ever snowboard was made in Turkey? Villagers in the northeast of the country say they've been tearing down the Kackar mountains, batons in hand, for the last 150 years. But their equivalent of the snowboard has a very different name -- it's known as the lazboard. Rize Turkey (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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AFPTV
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98182730
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AFPTV
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31 March, 2010
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00:02:48:03
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Rize, Turkey
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VID113120_ENd