Coldcat
09-12-2004, 09:27 AM
I went for an indoor stint for the first time in one and a half year (yes, you read right, I haven't set foot on my board for a full 18 months....) and boy, was I jonesing for it!!
Apart from rocking new pants that I scored in the sale this summer (I figured rips in your pants' butt area are not cool anymore since 1988) I bought myself some brandspankin' new Burton mission bindings, with capstraps.
The bindings I had were the first customs ever to go on the market, (1995 or 6?) had lost what rigidness they had, sported three different straps and gave me a little bit of heellift. As did all my bindings until now.
Not anymore.
I had red heels afterwards, from the heelcup digging into them. And boy, was I STUCK to that board or what! No heellift whatsoever!
The capstrap is, I find, really nice. My little toe is very thankful for it. It feels like you have no toestrap at all, but still you are rocksteady in your binding. I'm very glad with these bindings. (Next stop: new boots... anyone of you interested in buying a painting?? :D )
Too bad I was about as stiff as the board I was riding.
The riding felt good, but I lacked the fluidity I've come to expect from myself. Now, I am ridden with musle ache.. I guess I have to do this far more often to keep this older body into shape!
But I can still do a good method. Glad that one has become almost instinctual.
Oh man.......now I am jonesing for it even worse .........
Apart from rocking new pants that I scored in the sale this summer (I figured rips in your pants' butt area are not cool anymore since 1988) I bought myself some brandspankin' new Burton mission bindings, with capstraps.
The bindings I had were the first customs ever to go on the market, (1995 or 6?) had lost what rigidness they had, sported three different straps and gave me a little bit of heellift. As did all my bindings until now.
Not anymore.
I had red heels afterwards, from the heelcup digging into them. And boy, was I STUCK to that board or what! No heellift whatsoever!
The capstrap is, I find, really nice. My little toe is very thankful for it. It feels like you have no toestrap at all, but still you are rocksteady in your binding. I'm very glad with these bindings. (Next stop: new boots... anyone of you interested in buying a painting?? :D )
Too bad I was about as stiff as the board I was riding.
The riding felt good, but I lacked the fluidity I've come to expect from myself. Now, I am ridden with musle ache.. I guess I have to do this far more often to keep this older body into shape!
But I can still do a good method. Glad that one has become almost instinctual.
Oh man.......now I am jonesing for it even worse .........