The Snow Crunch team meets up with flow to check out their new 2013-2014 bindings, like the awesome NX2 GT.
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Another new thing for 2013-2014 for Flow Snowboarding is our Fuse binding line. The women’s would be known as the Isis, and the mens as the Fuse. It’s pretty much our M-series, that has been transformed to be a little more technical. As you can see, this one has an aluminum heel cup, and what’s going on is the aluminum is headed all the way to the bottom. So with the power triangle, from the cable you are relying on for your turns, you’re also going to get more energy transmitted in your heelside and toeside turns from the aluminum that’s coming from the center of the binding.
Another new thing for Flow Snowboarding in 2013-14 is the Freeballer. The Freeballer is a binding without a high back. Back in the day people used to take their highbacks off so they could jib and tweek their tricks a little bit more, but this one we are more concentrating on the surf feel. When you put this thing on a powder board, for instance like the Darwin, it feels like you’re surfing. Laying a turn, especially your heel side and toe side turn, it’s so much more loose, feels really free, and your heels are locked in there but it feels like you’re moving around on a surfboard or a skateboard, so it gives it that surf feel.
This is the 2014 NX2-GT. This is one bad binding. This is pretty much the Ferrari or Lamborghini of bindings in the snowboard industry. We added OC Kush dampening throughout the whole binding, where it’s going completely through in the spots you really need it for impact zones. We have a canted footbed, with all EVA, so it’s real cushy, really soft. This one for instance has the hybrid top strap, with the quick release on the rachets, and also locking rachets, so you can lock it and not have to worry about it moving around on you. We also have a three piece modular highback, what’s going on here is it’s an aluminum heel cup, it’s a plastic center piece ribcage, and we added a TPU material in the highback, so it has a good flex. So you get the flex up here and the alunimum down here where you really need the support for your heelside and toeside turns.