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Similar wheels at the toe were rotated to allow sideways motion. The toe cable attached to a similar connector at the front, which was designed to rotate to allow the boot to release. [4] In the case of a binding release, the cable prevented the ski from running away down the hill, a task normally accomplished with a ski brake.
Burton Snowboards is a privately-owned snowboard manufacturing company that was founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977. [2] [3] The company specializes in products aimed at snowboarders, such as snowboards, bindings, boots, outerwear, and accessories.
Most touring bindings are designed for ski boots falling under one of two ISO specifications: ISO 5355:2019, for traditional alpine boots. In this variation the pivot is located in the front of the binding. [15] ISO 9523:2015, for boots in which the pivot is formed at the boot / binding interface. [16]
Jake Burton Carpenter (April 29, 1954 – November 20, 2019), occasionally also known as Jake Burton or Jakie, was an American snowboarder, founder of Burton Snowboards, and one of the inventors of the modern day snowboard.
Cable bindings, also known as Kandahar bindings or bear-trap bindings, are a type of ski bindings widely used through the middle of the 20th century. It was invented and brand-named after the Kandahar Ski Club in 1929 by ski racer and engineer Guido Reuge. [1] They were replaced in alpine skiing by heel-and-toe "safety bindings" in the mid-1960s.
Footwraps used by the Finnish Army until the 1990s. Footwraps (also referred to as foot cloths, rags, bandages or bindings, or by their Russian name portyanki) are rectangular pieces of cloth that are worn wrapped around the feet to avoid chafing, absorb sweat and improve the foothold.