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		<title>The no-back experience</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rare to see a snowboarder riding without highbacks on the mountain, so uncommon that if you try it you&#8217;ll get interesting glances by those who notice and the people you snowboard with might question your sanity.   The concept of riding without highbacks has been around since the beginning of snowboarding but moved into the shadows once highbacks were invented in 1983.  In the early 90&#8217;s Tarquin Robbins took his highbacks off and re-started the no-back revolution that Mike Ranquet would later be known for and write about in his theory of no highbacks in Transworld Snowboarding.  Since then I&#8217;ve learned of other snowboarder following in the no-back footsteps like Signal&#8217;s Dave Lee and Brandbase&#8217;s Trent Bush.  But it wasn&#8217;t until earlier this year that I was in the midst of a discussion about no-backs when I decided that to understand the concept of no-backs meant experiencing it first hand. [singlepic id=8956 w=300 h=450 float=] How often do you really look at a snowboarders highback on the mountain?  I found out that after a couple runs with Mike from Signal in December that I rarely looked at another snowboarders highback.  During the entire time we rode together, I didn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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