"Alex, thanks for the reply and walking through the development process. Designing bindings become exponentially more challenging with more moving parts while providing customization, so I understand. It is great to hear that you have worked through these topic areas and feel confident about this platform. I wish you all great success. Be safe out there and please enjoy those pow slashes for the rest of us. Cheers! "

"Agreed, cool idea! But, as a former snowboard binding designer, I have a few issues with this concept. Asking a binding to do two tasks will likely reduce the performance of each (bad binding, bad snowshoe.)The binding doesn't appear to have forward lean, highback rotation or canting, which will reduce the amount of customization and comfort of the user. Forward lean would be really important here if you aren't going to have risers in touring mode. This binding has a permanent baseplate on the board which has a large footprint (reduced natural board flex) and will experience icing and snowpack problems (same as splitboard bindings). The snowshoe mode is restricted and doesn't appear to accept crampons. This binding also looks quite heavy due to the number of metal parts. Tubbs snowshoes or Spark R&D/Karakoram split bindings would be are greater weight reduction package. I applaud the drive for innovation. Hope it performs better than I can perceive from the videos. 1"