When Santa swung his reindeer along our street, he dropped of some new bindings for the splitboard. These are the Spark Burner bindings and at first glance they appear to be a HUGE improvement over the voile binding & plastic boot combo.
The biggest bennie will be having the boot / binding system lower to the board. This should provide a more linear carve in regards to turning. The plastic boots and voile binding combo seemed to be very non linear when trying to turn....as in, you would start your turn....nothing nothing nothing, then BOOM, the edge caught and I was either on my ace or on my face.
Some pix of the new / old binding systems below:
new binding installed on the existing voile pucks:
the pin tucked away:
the old system....plastic boots and voile binding - notice the phone on the snowboard for reference of how high the boot is sitting:
same perspective with the new spark system:
frontal view of the old:
full frontal of the new!
switching to tour mode....pin slides into the existing voile system
side by side comparison in tour mode - old on the left, new on the right
old on the left, new on the right - so much lower!
view from the back of how much higher the plastic boot & voile binding combo is compared to the spark binding:
in tour mode:
The biggest bennie will be having the boot / binding system lower to the board. This should provide a more linear carve in regards to turning. The plastic boots and voile binding combo seemed to be very non linear when trying to turn....as in, you would start your turn....nothing nothing nothing, then BOOM, the edge caught and I was either on my ace or on my face.
Some pix of the new / old binding systems below:
new binding installed on the existing voile pucks:
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