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How to Strap in Fast

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#1 · (Edited)
How to Strap in Faster

This is a way of strapping in a few seconds faster:

Before getting on the chairlift, fold your highback down and under the ankle strap. Wen you unfold the highback, it will push the ankle straps behind it, moving those bitches out the way so you only have to move the toe strap to get your foot in. Fasten the toe strap first.

This helps for people who ride with skiers or boarders with speed-entry, which was my situation.
 
#72 ·
Ok I have the answer! Snowboard pants with a built in bench seat built into the ass! It's perfect... Unload from the lift, pull the retractable legs down on your new BenchAss Pants (patent pending)...sit on your ass... And strap in. Just fold the legs up and go. They also double as protective slam shorts for tailbone injuries (or they cause tailbone injuries... Gotta work those bugs out).... Anyway...i'm off to the patent office bitches!!!
 
#82 ·
Beer holders are for people who need to take more then one sip to finish a beer. '

Mind you....i remember my first beer too...
You must be avoiding the taste of your shitty beer:laugh:

Its true when its actually dragged around the hill its just shitty PBR.....

This year I'm bringing Dales...


We usually have one guy with a backpack (30pack or so) who races to a hut and then its just a chain of people spread out by like 15minutes hut hopping hehe.

Turning lemons into lemonade on sbf.....
 
#80 · (Edited)
I get off the lift, get out of peoples way, sit down, clear the snow if there is any, and strap in. I could strap in standing up also, but I would rather KNOW my bindings are 100% secure before I go mach 10 down a black. Nothing worse then looking cool strapping in standing up just to get half way down a run, do a jump, and have your toe strap fall off because you hurried to slap it on. (I realize your ankle strap is doing most the work, but it still feels weird to lose a toe strap mid run) If I'm at a flat unloading area like dercum mountain at keystone then I'll just do it standing up. If its pally at a-basin, I sit down.

Seriously sitting down takes 10 seconds, and then your not in anyones way trying to strap in on the go. I hate getting off the lift behind someone who isn't a PRO at it, and they just get in my way as they struggle to keep there balance and strap in properly.

I don't really care how you strap in. If your going to sit down, get out of the way. If your going to do it standing up, GET OUT OF THE WAY. :dunno:

As far as your ass getting wet, or cold.... get some better pants lol

p.s. I do however unstrap standing up while cruising through the lift line, since its a lot easier "for me"
 
#81 · (Edited)
Yeah, you're right: the problem is people new to snowboarding taking too long and getting in the way. The runs at a lot hills in MI are pretty narrow at the top, and they seem to sit across the entire span of some of them. The worst place for this that I've been to was Pine Knob, at the top of their main run. Kids just everywhere.
"Excuse me, coming through..."
 
#88 ·
^^^^
LOL

I don't strap in standing up to do it faster. Plus I tend to take forever doing anything and will skip around my music at the top until the perfect song comes on, mess with my gloves, straighten my jacket, look at dudes then eventually ride. Plus I am super OCD about strapping in. I can see plenty of mountains and scenery when not sitting. I think strapping in standing up is a better connection with the boot and binding. You don't ride sitting down.

I have lots of days on the mountain and seldom strap in sitting down. I have never had a strap get loose from this method, EVER. A few times my boot came out of my old bindings, that was because the bindings were failing. After the 3rd time I bought new ones and it has not happened again.
 
#89 · (Edited)
How would you have a better connection with the boot and binding by standing up? It all depends... but generally speaking, you have better odds of getting your boots fully rested in the heel cup when your sitting down. Not to mention, how often do you ride flat based as opposed to on edge ? When your sitting down, your board is leaning towards you while you strap in, which is more akin to actually riding then strapping in flat basing.

I don't care what you say, but you can't enjoy the scenery as much trying to strap in standing as you could sitting down, unless your straining your muscles trying keep your balance in which case you might as well just sit down and rest for a second. You obviously enjoy seeing the mountains for a few seconds at most then being on your way. Try going to the top of a double black though and enjoying the mountains for a few minutes (we'll say 3-5) while standing, and not being in anyones way. Sure on an uncrowded weekday you probably could, but you would be straining your legs trying to maintain balance on a 20+ degree slope. Why not just sit down in a situation such as this? I'm not talking about the schoolmarm at keystone. I'm talking double blacks, and stuff like east wall at arapahoe basin.

Fyi I strapped in quickly on a run at Loveland this year while standing up. Did a jump off the rollers near the bottom and my toe strap did slip off from the impact. I was wearing my 09 burton missions. Granted if I was wearing my newer binding with the getagrip capstrap it probably wouldn't have happened, but not everyone has those.

You wanna stand up and strap in? fine, but to brag about such a thing is beyond silly.

Here's a cookie for the badass :thumbsup: (btw no one on the mountain gives a fuck how you strap in as long as your not in their way.)
 
#90 ·
If you sit to do your bindings up, you are a retard.

Learn how to make a little ledge in the snow.

You only have to do it once, it'll still be there for your next run.

Sitting in the snow=wet bum=retard.

straight up, if you sit in the snow you are a retard. I don't care what you say. =Retarded.

Not sayin' you're a retard, but sitting in the snow, is retarded.

Someone showed me the little ledge thing 25 years ago, I don't think I've sat down to do my bindings up since.

Thank you, whoever the fuck you were!

TT
 
#94 ·
Love the absurdity of this whole thread.

I'm a stander who used to do the ledge and balance thing until I saw someone do something way better.

It was someplace with a kind of steep off load area and I was having a hard time making a ledge, and while fidgeting with it, some dude skates up, catches his backside edge in the slope and then straps in. By sticking his edge in the slope it held him in place and he was in and out super fast. Been doing it that way ever since and it pretty awesome...
 
#91 ·


I would rather KNOW my bindings are 100% secure before I go mach 10 down a black...
...I don't care what you say, but you can't enjoy the scenery as much trying to strap in standing as you could sitting down, unless your straining your muscles trying keep your balance in which case you might as well just sit down and rest for a second. You obviously enjoy seeing the mountains for a few seconds at most then being on your way. Try going to the top of a double black though and enjoying the mountains for a few minutes (we'll say 3-5) while standing, and not being in anyones way. Sure on an uncrowded weekday you probably could, but you would be straining your legs trying to maintain balance on a 20+ degree slope. Why not just sit down in a situation such as this? I'm not talking about the schoolmarm at keystone. I'm talking double blacks, and stuff like east wall at arapahoe basin.


You're BOTH right- you can strap in however you want, different ways are easier for some people than others.
With the issue of sitting down to make sure the heel of the boot is all the way back, I can do that standing up, too. I just push my boot down and back against the highback and baseplate while strapping in, that way I can always be sure. I do it all the time, and now I can really feel exactly where the boot is in my binding. :)
But, in the end it comes down to whatever's comfortable for each rider. Do what you like. As long as it's not in the way (which was a problem on the narrow runs around here), nobody cares.

As for the marvelous beer contraption, just fill up a Camelbak or Dakine (with reservoir) snow pack with whatever beer you chose, as long as you clean it properly after a day out. The tube on the snow packs is insulated and is also concealed inside the zip on the shoulder strap, so if for some sad reason they don't like riders having beer while on a certain hill, you don't have to worry about covering it up.
For the sit-down feature, you could possibly mount a telescopic pole to each side of the Dakine pack, as long as it also has the removable aluminum stays via zippers (such as on the chute). You can do this by drilling a few holes into the stays, and then use screws and maybe weld them. Then just put them back into the pack and you can slide down the poles on each side of the pack. When retracted they'd just look like a pair of short symmetrical bars on each side of the pack. Now you can have your beer without having to hold a can, and have a sit-down feature without crippling your sorry ass if you fall! The best part is that you can now sit down, strap in, and drink ALL AT THE SAME TIME! :thumbsup:

 
#98 ·
I take my sweet ass time anyway, haha

Usually light a joint, if I'm with people, I just tell them to go.

Don't worry about me, I'll blow by you in a sec.:facepalm2:


TT
 
#100 ·
I showed my son the trick i use to do when i had my Union force binding three seasons ago. As mentioned before, the ankle strap is set behind the highback so it would be ready once you pull it up, but what i added was have the toe strap one or two clicks in, as soon as your off the lift, pull the highback, put your boot in, strap in either toe or ankle first then your gone. I did this for my first season after i got the basics down on snowboarding and i had problems standing up after strapping due to back problem. Since then i switched to Flow were i found heaven:happy:
 
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