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The NoBoard crew traveled from Canada to Japan and found all nothing but powder to surf. Make sure to read NoBoarding: Staking Their Claim in TWS’s October issue to find out more about these hardcore snowsurfers.
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Burton NoFish—No Holds Barred
If the term “NoBoarding” isn’t part of your vocabulary, it will be soon. Traditionally, a NoBoard is simply a snowboard without bindings fixed with a specially designed rubber polymer stomp pad and a bungee-like grabbing rope attached to your binding inserts. First conceptualized by Canadian riders Greg Todds and Cholo Burns as a bare-bones, surf-inspired way of enjoying the heaps of powder in Interior B.C., NoBoarding has officially been taken one step further with the Burton NoFish—the first-ever manufactured for NoBoarding snowboard.
Meant strictly for the worshipping of untouched, bottomless powder, the NoFish has a similar tapered shape to the legendary Burton Fish. “We used the NoBoard team to test these boards, not traditional snowboarders,” says Burton Snowboard Testing Supervisor John “J.G.” Gerndt—co-creator of the original Fish. “One thing that stands out about this board is it’s not a normal snowboard. There’re no bindings, so we didn’t have to build it to ISO standards for insert pullouts. This let us to reduce the amount of fiberglass some and thus soften up the board a bit.” With this softer torsional and longitudinal flex, the rider can more easily direct the board with their weight and foot control. Also, the area of the topsheet where the grippy stomp pad sits is recessed into the core three millimeters, allowing the pad to actually sit in the board core, not on top of it and giving the NoFish even more direct feel. Yep, if you’re looking for an insane new way to experience powder, the NoFish is it.—Jen Sherowski
Length: 154.5 cm
Sidecut radius: 7.95 m
Waist width: 25.2 cm
Effective edge: 1197.5 cm
Price: $500
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“The story goes that in the beginning the snow was so deep we couldn’t even find our biding straps, so Geets (Greg Todds) decided to get rid of them. That was 1998 and we haven’t used bindings since. The first prototypes were garage pours from homemade molds. Though some were better than others, we quickly realised we were onto something. From the beginning we knew that we wanted to spread the love of noboarding. A few years later we decided to make it happen and started NoBoard Sport Inc.”
Cholo Burns
And now the heads behind the NoBoard have catapulted themselves into the digital realm with their new Web site www.noboard.ca.
The site offers up the latest news about the NoBoard revolution, some history about the movement, videos of some NoBoarders bagging hairball lines, team bios and a spot to reserve yourself either a NoBoard kit or a Burton NoFish.
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