"Noboarding" Hits the Snowboard Scene

That's right, I said Noboarding. That's not a typo, but rather a new take on the relatively young sport of snowboarding; the "new" sport involves riding a full-sized snowboard without bindings...think snowskate on steroids.

Based in Canada, NoBoard Sport, Inc. has been around for four years, but it wasn't until the company partnered with industry leader Burton Snowboards for the upcoming 2008/2009 season that they began to attract serious attention. According to the company's website, noboarding was developed after a day when "the snow was so deep we couldn't even find our binding straps, so [we] decided to get rid of them. That was 1998 and we haven't used bindings since."

After several years of building prototypes in a garage, the company decided to partner with Burton Snowboards. For the 08/09 season, Burton is offering two NoBoard^TM products: the No Fish, which is based off the popular Fish powder board, and the NoBoard kit, which acts as an adapter to turn any snowboard into a Noboard. Check out NoBoard Sport, Inc. online to see if this new take on an existing sport is for you!