The Movement was a snowboarding company in the Mervin Manufacturing

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Mervin Manufacturing is an American snowboard manufacturer. Mervin is the parent company of Liberace Technologies Snowboards, Gnu Snowboards, , Lib Tech Skateboards, and Bent Metal bindings. In the mid 90's Mervin was also an OEM supplier for companies such as Canada's Luxury brand and for The...

 family, existing only from 1995 to 1999. It was a Matt Donahue project. The company was arguably the most independent and art-oriented of the Mervin family, not having any notable professional

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 riders on its team, with its catalogs featuring more art

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 and photography

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 of the world than information pertaining to snowboarding

Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

 or the company's products.

The Movement had a few different slogans:

• Remember the Reasons for Love
• This Is, After All, a Record of What's Happened
• Things that Bring Us Together

Today

There is no information on the Internet relating to The Movement Snowboards. Today, The Movement has been all but forgotten by the majority of snowboarders, most riders too young to have come into contact with it. The only real remnant of the company is the Ronnie Rico music CD which was released in conjunction of the company's 1997 catalog. The disc still circulates through the most underground

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 scene

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s in snowboarding

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Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

, creating a nostalgic

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 image of what The Movement was through its empty space and bad production

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quality.