Let’s keep with the hinge for a little longer.
Well, some of the other mechanics are different too. If you’ve taken a look at the Angry Snowboarder’s article above, you’ll have been reminded that the ollie mechanic is different on a snowboard. So whilst you don’t have the freedom to roll your foot/ankle/leg up against the ‘deck’ for maximum tweaking/boning, you also can’t do a one-footed ollie, or a pop-shuvit, or a kick-flip (well, maybe you can if you’re Wolle Nyvelt)… An obvious and relevant difference is that unlike a skateboard, your feet are strapped into the snowboard (maybe that’s better as: the snowboard is strapped onto your feet?). Whilst there are many similarities between snowboarding and skateboarding, there are some pretty fundamental differences, too. Putting all that to one side, the question still remains, is the idea any good?
You could argue that there’s been increased activity in recent months… What’s more, they’ve only just added drawings created for the patent office. And whilst the Facebook page does date back to 2009, the history has many posts through 2012 and early 2013 the video itself was uploaded earlier this year, March. You’re unlikely to have seen them or read about them, and you can’t buy them in a shop. To be fair to Whitelines, however, these ‘crazy hinged bindings’ will be new to most.
The Angry Snowboarder also covered this in the same year an article that’s worth reading if you’re interested in the hinged-approach. The Pivit design was in motion back in 2009, which, if you check out that Facebook page above, you’ll see that’s when the posts started. The article on Whitelines includes a fairly damning reply, stating (correctly) that the idea isn’t in fact, new. Whitelines posted a summary and video of the Pivit binding system a ‘new’ snowboard binding design that adds a hinge to the binding in order to provide greater, lateral flexibility.
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