releasable bindings

cezza · Posted: Apr 23, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: releasable bindings

ok im not sure if there are anything out there like this, but because i badly sprained my ankle a couple of season ago im real cautious about how tight my bindings are when i ride so i have them quite loss - which sucks coz i like alot of support - just like snowboarding.

i thought it would be really cool if there were bindings that could release on impact on a big crash- which still allows you to have tight bindings with the comfort of knowing that your safe from ankle injury. i mean how annoying is it when your feet pop out and trying to get back in - somethimes its a pain in the ass...so all you have to do is clip your feet back in kinda like clip-on snowboard bindings

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snooks · Soul Rider Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 313 City: Calgary

It would be great until one of them released and the other got jammed. Shocked

cezza · Posted: Apr 23, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject:

snooks, yeh but what about when only one foot comes out when you bail hard with normal fixed bindings? same thing right?

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Talk to lcap. He was in the process of trying to prototype some. Not sure how far he got though. His was a result of a fractured talus, not a sprained ankle.

pet575 · Posted: Apr 24, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

I've always wondered why you couldn't take the current binding and clip the sole into an andjustable tension binding on the board, like a snow ski and ski boot do. Was this tried in the 1990's at some point and the force was too great and caused the boots to disengage to easily? I guess you would also have the one in/one out problem there, too, though.

cezza · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject:

Wakebrad, its not also for injury..also for easier access in an out.

would be good if there was a tension dial between 1-5. so you could have total control of how much force would relase your bindings

GuitsBoy · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject:

I fear that pokes and presses would pop you right out.

cezza · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

GuitsBoy, na i mean like alot of pressure..not just a few pokes and presses. uno the kinda of pressure that make your feet come outa ya bindings

jpk · Outlaw Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 215 City: Redmond

I've thought the same thing, ski boots and bindings have had this technology for decades. It shouldn't be rocket science.

You can pop out of wakeboard bindings pretty easy catching a toeside edge. Ejecting heelside is harder, but still possible.

But twisting out or even ejecting towards tip or tail is pretty much impossible. Your knee will blow before your foot comes out. That's where the release mechanism would be most useful.

Until then, maybe don't crank down the bindings so hard or get some that will release super easy. Or just wakeskate and surf and forget about it.

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: Apr 25, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

it doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult. Something like snowski bindings, where you screw a baseplate down, then clip in at the heel and toe. the only reason i see it not working as well as snow applications is that on the water, your board can really stick to the surface. You might release off the wake wrong, which, if your bindings release, would leave you boardless or even worse, one foot in one foot out in the air.

cezza · Posted: Apr 26, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

maybe even just bindings that dont release while riding but when you push a button or something which would be good for getting your board on...kinda just like a snowboard binding yeh

Craig-R · Guest

yeah i was gonna say talk to lcap

Roos · Outlaw Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 192

It shouldn't be too hard to manufacture something like ski-bindings and I can assure you that there are ski-bindings that won't release when popping off the wake or something like that. If you have a really good ski-binding you can set the strength so that it takes way more pressure for them to release that it takes to pop your foots out of a wakeboard-binding...
If you have really high setting on the scale of a ski-binding it will rip out of the ski's before releasing.. At the same time you can make them release really easy, so that would be a perfect idea for this problem... though I guess you need someone to manufacture them for you.. doubt it would work to just put ski-bindings on your wakeboard... and who wants to go wakeboarding in ski-boots anyways? =)

Mike

cezza · Posted: May 02, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject:

...waiting for Lcap

B_Fool · Soul Rider Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 373 City: Cen FLA

Ronix boots release off the board next year. I'm still trying to see a benefit.

cezza · Posted: May 02, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

B_Fool, true? release on impact or what?

wakedude83 · Posted: May 03, 2007 4:35 am Post subject:

Releasing bindings would be a mess. But - if you want to sprain your ankle more, they would be great. Tighten your bindings and take it like a man!

SeaLyon · Posted: May 03, 2007 5:00 am Post subject:

cezza · Posted: May 03, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject:

SeaLyon, well its the same thing when only when one foot comes out on normal bindings right?

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

jlaws · Addict Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 832 City: NC

i know a guy who went big on a jump and his foot came out in the air and the other one was still in his binding, he had to put his foot on his board, ended up shattering his leg.

thats the first thing i thought of when i thought of bindings like the step in ones for snowboarding.

idk there would have to be some kinks worked out.. good idea though.

cezza · Posted: May 03, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject:

hmm no one seems to be listening.

ive had months of physio for my ankle because one foot came out of my normal hyperlite binding and the other foot didnt when i ate it hard. i know some people with the same problem as me and with a releasable binding at a certain pressure might just do the trick...well its just a guess at this stage but in theroy its there

SeaLyon · Posted: May 04, 2007 4:55 am Post subject:

yeah you can have a foot come out of a nornal binding but when a co. makes them releasable, and then someone thinks they should not have released when they did Shocked

I think you can get the picture.... lawsuit. Just read the paper people sue people for just farting almost. Just mt opinion. Smile

cypher1024 · Newbie Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

One foot in + one foot out = knee injury. I'm surprised Ronix are going with a releasable setup. The only way I can see it working is if the bindings had some sort of mechanism to disengage the one binding if the other released...

cezza · Posted: May 06, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

cypher1024, yeh that would be a good idea with the other binding releasing automaticly when the other does.

can i check out those ronix bindings somehow on the net?