List of IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship reigns by length and Tom Sims: Difference between pages

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'''Tom Sims''' is a pioneer and world champion of [[snowboard]]ing, originally from [[Haddonfield, New Jersey|Haddonfield]], [[New Jersey]]. In 1963, he made what he called a the "skiboard," an early version of the snowboard, in the Haddonfield Middle School's shop room after failing to complete his intended project, a custom skateboard.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0211/021198.feat.sports.1.html He was not the first person to do, there were many kids building a surfboard for the snow as well as even articles on surfers riding their surfboards in the snow in 1964A Man Who Helped Skiers Get on the Snowboard], ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'', [[February 11]], [[1998]]</ref> Sims was the snowboarding stunt double for "007"(Roger Moore)in the 1984 James Bond release, A View to a Kill. He did not patent his invention. There is much dispute as to whether or not he is the inventor of the snowboard. Many industry publications, such as Transworld Snowboarding and various informational books, . Both Sims Snowboards and Burton Snowboards are very successful. In 2006 Sims Snowboards was bought out, and Tom Sims is no longer the owner. POWer magazine said that the buy out was "the end of Sims' run and now Burton was officially on top."

As of [[October 3]], [[2006]].

In 1980-81 Tom Sims setup a design skunkworks in a rented barn located in the Santa Barbara,His friend Chuck Barfoot was the guy who actually built Tom's designs as well as building his own designs. they started selling their models as Sims SKiboards and Barfoot Snoboards in the first Sims advertisement in 1980, in 1981 Barfoot split from Sims and has been building snowboards under his name ever since..

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==References==

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!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Days Held

!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Date Won

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|[[Shinjiro Ohtani]] & [[Tatsuhito Takaiwa]] || 348 || [[July 13]], [[1999]] || [[June 25]], [[2000]]

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|[[Keiji Takayama|Gedo]] & [[Shoji Akiyoshi|Jado]] || 286 || [[July 20]], [[2001]] || [[May 2]], [[2002]]

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|[[Koji Kanemoto]] & [[Jushin Liger]] || 282 || [[January 26]], [[2003]] || [[November 4]], [[2003]]

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|[[Hirooki Goto]] & [[Minoru Tanaka|Minoru]] || 281 || [[May 14]], [[2005]] || [[February 19]], [[2006]]

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|Gedo & Jado || 272 || [[June 5]], [[2004]] || [[March 4]], [[2005]]

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|Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka || 254 || [[June 25]], [[2000]] || [[March 6]], [[2001]]

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|[[Yoshinobu Kanemaru]] & [[Tsuyoshi Kikuchi]] || 150 || [[August 29]], [[2002]] || [[January 26]], [[2003]]

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|Shinjiro Ohtani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa || 149 || [[August 8]], [[1998]] || [[January 4]], [[1999]]

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|[[Osamu Matsuda|El Samurai]] & [[Ryusuke Taguchi]] || 139 || [[February 19]], [[2006]] || [[July 8]], [[2006]]

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|Jushin Liger & El Samurai || 136 || [[March 6]], [[2001]] || [[July 20]], [[2001]]

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|Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka || 119 || [[May 2]], [[2002]] || [[August 29]], [[2002]]

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|Gedo & Jado || 104 || [[November 29]], [[2003]] || [[March 12]], [[2004]]

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|[[Kendo Kashin]] & [[Dr. Wagner, Jr.]] || 96 || [[January 4]], [[1999]] || [[April 10]], [[1999]]

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|[[Masanori Murakawa|The Great Sasuke]] & Jushin Liger || 94 || [[April 10]], [[1999]] || [[July 13]], [[1999]]

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|'''Gedo & Jado''' || '''87''' || '''[[July 8]], [[2006]]''' || '''''Current champions'''''

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|[[Bryan Danielson|American Dragon]] & [[Christopher Daniels|Curry Man]] || 85 || [[March 12]], [[2004]] || [[June 5]], [[2004]]

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|[[Wataru Inoue]] & Koji Kanemoto || 71 || [[March 4]], [[2005]] || [[May 14]], [[2005]]

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==SeeExternal alsolinks==

*[http://www.simsnow.com/ Sims Snowboards]

*[http://www.ideas21.co.uk/177 Ideas: The Snowboard]

*[http://www.frqncy.com/index.php?issue=14 Tom Sims Interview in Frequency Snowboard Journal]

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