Binding Timeline: Part 2 of 3

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Binding Timeline: Part 2 of 3

In the beginning there was an urge to find different ways to get down a snow-covered hill, to be different, and to tinker. This account is not meant to issue bragging rights or lay down who’s-first claims (unless they are widely known,) but it’s an effort to educate and give thanks to the early pioneers who had the ingenuity and took the time to make snowboarding better. This is a simple account of the evolution of the snowboard binding.

[First published in Transworld SNOWboarding, February 2005]
By Dennis Nazari
Photography by James Cassimus

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In 1986, Winterstick took the highback further with an injection-molded urethane full-wrap highback binding that enabled riders to pressure the front foot of the binding to transfer energy to the toeside edge. PHOTO: James Cassimus

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