Who needs bindings? Some snowboarders do without
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- Created on Monday, 29 November 2010 17:32
- Written by Nathan
By LAUREN GLENDENNING, VAIL DAILY
EAGLE COUNTY — There's a small community of local snowboarders who are doing something many skiers and riders could never imagine doing — they're riding big mountains and deep powder without bindings.
The sport, called noboarding, has been around since 1998 when its inventor Greg Todd decided he was getting bored with snowboarding and wanted to take it to another level.
Todd, from British Columbia, decided to get rid of his bindings, use a rubber traction pad on the stance area of a snowboard, and use a hand-held rope that's attached to the board, just in front of the front foot and just behind the back foot, to keep an attachment with the board.
Todd, who died in an avalanche in 2005, co-founded Noboard Inc. with Cholo Burns, also of British Columbia, and the company is now back on its own after a couple of years working with Burton Snowboards.
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