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Summary: Make sure your snowboard bindings fit right. Learn what to look for in woman's snowboarding bindings in this free snowboarding rental and buying guide from an expert snowboarder.
Brad Disabella has been snowboarding for five years. He has worked at a variety of shops as a snowboard tech, as well as a retail salesperson. He has worked at the Sun Diego Boardshop...read more
"In this section, I'm going to be going through and explaining to you how to pick out a womens snowboarding bindings and the importance of actually buying a womens snowboarding binding as opposed to woman using a mens snowboarding binding. So, what you want to look for is. Some are to most generic snowboarding bindings, these ones have the ratchet system. You want to make sure they're easy to use. And, as you notice right here to get them off you simply lift that piece and pull back on it. And, to put them back on, you feed this section into right there and it ratchets down. Allowing for you to tighten the binding depending on personal preference. You also want to get the bindings with your boots in hand just because they make different size bindings for different size feet and different size boots. So, you want to be able match that up and make sure that all your stuff is working together as one. As opposed to just buying a piece right here and seeing if it fits with all your other stuff. You wanna. Just like if you buy boots somewhere else, just bring them into the shop that your buying your bindings at. See if they fit in the binding. Just so everything works together. Now, as you can see right here, there's a whole out of the middle of the binding. With the holes that are already pre-drilled into the snowboard. What this allows for you to do is position the binding depending on personal preference. You can either move it forward or backward. Or you can rotate it in or out. This is all based on personal preference, depending on your riding style and the riding that you want to be doing up on the hill. An important factor of why you need to get girls snowboarding bindings as opposed to guys snowboarding bindings, is the backs do not go up as high. Just because men and women are shaped and structured differently. You don't want to have a guys binding thats gonna be coming up to here. Its gonna pinch you in the back of the leg and make it so it's just not fun. You really want to to try to focus on getting a girls binding. One that fits well to your boot and for your foot. And, thats comfortable in the back of your leg and thats not pinching on anything and making anything uncomfortable. So, thats pretty much how you go through and choose a womens snowboarding binding."
eHow Article: How to Choose Snowboard Bindings for Women