Forum snowboards was first started by Four Star Distribution and pro snowboarder Peter Line in the summer of 1996. It also owns outerwear companies Four Square and Special Blend. The Four Square team consists of Pat Moore, Peter Line, Jake Welch, Jake Blauvelt, and Eddie Wall. The Special Blend team consists of Joni Malmi, John Jackson, Stevie Bell, Nic Suave, and the previously promoted Daniel Ek.

Peter Line attempted to create the greatest pro team ever, which resulted in "The Forum 8", arguably the most progressive group of riders ever. The Forum 8 were: JP Walker, Jeremy Jones (freestyler), Joni Malmi, Wille Yli-Luoma, Bjorn Leines, Devun Walsh, Chris Dufficy and Peter Line and were seen on Mack Dawg Productions' "The Resistance".

Since then, 6 of the original 8 have left Forum, with Joni Malmi and Peter Line the only original Forum 8 left. JP Walker left Forum Snowboards in June of 2007.

Currently, the Forum team consists of: Peter Line, Joni Malmi, Eddie Wall, Pat Moore, Jake Blauvelt, Stevie Bell, Jake Welch, Nic Sauve, Daniel Ek and John Jackson.

Forum has been working with Mack Dawg Productions to produce a number of snowboard videos including The Resistance, True Life, Video Gangs. However, their most recent video, "That" was not made by Mack Dawg. Forum's videos all feature riders of the Forum team along with friends of the team. In 2006, team members Stevie Bell and JP Walker appeared in one of the most highly anticipated documentaries of the year in Sunset Film's "Montreal". In 2006-07 season the team released a new video entitled "That". The team has since made another movie entitled "Forum Or Against'Em" with focuses strongly on the team moving on past the age of the "Forum 8", it was released on September 15th, 2008.