| OGASAKA Snowboards was founded in 1987 in Nagano City, Japan. Around the year of 1985, snowboards are just the fun tool for off-piste, therefore there is no steel edge but a fin on the base of snowboard. Ski maker, OGASAKA took its advantage of the ski factory’s know-how to mount steel edges on the flattened base of snowboard. Sooner, OGASAKA snowboards made carving turn and alpine race popular in public, and expanded the market share mutually. With the popularity of TECHNICAL CHAMPIONSHIP which started in 1993, OGASAKA Snowboards gained so many carvers and became a regular favorite. And, that is still continuing. In, 2011 OGASAKA Snowboards started to develop the powder-boards called FT series when many snowboarders stated to enjoy off-piste. OGASAKA Snowboards also released the split-board with the push of many mountaineering enthusiasts. With it’s proved performance and highly elaborate construction, OGASAKA split-boards have been rated astonishing among fans in spite of just 2 years release. OGASAKA Snowboards will continue to produce high quality and high performance snowboards for the best of variable needs of snowboarders. |
| 1985-86 | Started round-sole Snowboard |
| 1986-87 | Hosting Morio Aizawa as a tester, Modified round-sole snowboard to flat-sole snowboard |
| 1987-88 | Released flat-sale snowboard with steel edge. |
| 1988-89 | Released freestyle snowboard(170cm) Released GS type(190cm) and SL type(170cm) as Alpine lineup |
| 1989-90 | Modified the mold of Alpine snowboard into standard length Changed whole design Takeshi Koide won 8th JSBA national championship |
| 1990-91 | Model change |
| 1991-92 | Setting full-time staff, started the sales in Japan |
| 1992-93 | Changed design and arranged flex |
| 1993-94 | Started fixing insert nut Released Narrow alpine-board LS with its waist 14cm Released alpine-board AX for free-ride |
| 1994-95 | Released Alpine-board MX for on-piste cruising |
| 1995-96 | Changed the waist of Narrow-board LS into 16cm Started custom-stance order |
| 1996-97 | Released world-first metal sandwich snowboard Released MX-Limited: Morio Aizawa signature model |
| 1997-98 | Released wide type alpine-board AW (waist 19cm) Released freestyle carving model FC Nagano Olympic was held |
| 1998-99 | Restored glass sandwich construction in the point that metal sandwich construction is too much at the time |
| 1999-00 | Released free ride alpine-board MZ |
| 2000-01 | Released asymmetrical alpine-board AM Added 184cm race-board, got sensational review Released snowboard cross board BX The number of JSBA Member reached its peak, and getting slimmer from this point |
| 2001-02 | Adopted asymmetrical side-cut on MX-L Released asymmetrical side-curve freestyle-board FA-A Released alpine-board HX for swich-ride and jumping |
| 2002-03 | Relieased all-round freestyle-board SS |
| 2003-04 | Released Long-cruize alpine-board LV Released kid’s model RC-J |
| 2004-05 | Released soft-flex alpine-board NB Released soft-flex freestyle-board CT |
| 2005-06 | Restored asymmetrical alpine-board MX-L to symmetrical |
| 2006-07 | Added Kid’s model KD(115cm, 125cm) to freestyle lineup |
| 2007-08 | Made metal-sandwich alpine-board returned after interval of 12 years |
| 2008-09 | Released world-first Urushi paint board on deck |
| 2009-10 | Released metal-sandwich alpine-board EV Released twintip freestyle-board FS |
| 2010-11 | Modified EV to hammer-head type shape Released metal-sandwich freestyle-board FC-X Released freestyle twintip-board TT |
| 2011-12 | Modified freestyle FC to semi-hammmer head shape, carving performance was extremely improved Added FT/SR173 to powder-board lineup |
| 2012-13 | Modified alpine-board ARMOR to hammer-head shape Added metal-sandwich construction model Type-R to ARMOR lineup |
| 2013-14 | Change the mold of freestyle- directional model CT, gained market share because of its performance Modified twintip-model TT and re-named ASTERIA Added FT/ST164 to powder-board lineup Added FT/ST152 to powder-board lineup Added FT/ST148 to powder-board lineup |
| 2014-15 |
Released herd-flex freestyle-board CT-S Added FR/FL160 to powder-board lineup Released pro-model PRO to alpine lineup |
| 2015-16 | Released fat-board ORCA with 58mm waist Added FT/SR159 to powder-board lineup Added FT/ST147 to powder-board lineup Added Kid’s model RC-KD to alpine-board lineup |
| 2016-17 | Added wide type freestyle board FCW to semi-hammmer FC lineup Modified chamber of directional freestyle board CTM to free chamber with less pressure on top and tail Modified chamber of twintip frestyle board AST to free chamber with less pressure on top and tail Released surf-style board SURFLINE |
| 2017-18 | Released hammer-head type FC-S to freestyle carving lineup Added FT157 to powder lineup Added FT156.5 to powder lineup Released split-board FT/SP 159 |
| 2018-19 | Released hard-flex type of directional freestyle CT-IZ in CT series Added 152cm and 164cm to FT/SP and renamed FT/Facet |