KneeBinding Shadow Ski Bindings 90mm Brakes
All the great features you'd expect from any KneeBinding, but that you can't get on ordinary bindings. Made with industrial resins and stainless steel, these bindings provide premium performance and safety for skiers of all levels on any terrain
KneeBinding, Changing Ski Bindings For Good.
KneeBindings have a 3rd dimension - a calibrated, PureLateralTM heel.
It can detect the forces that cause most knee injuries, and release before the injury occurs!
KneeBinding is the only binding proven to help protect your knees on skis.
Professional-grade KneeBindings also perform better. They are the ONLY bindings made in America, with superior leverage, edge-grip, and retention. KneeBindings offer industry-leading elasticity, cantilevered brakes, configurable ramp delta, precision toe height, the most stable boot platform, the widest mounting platform, and the ONLY floating mount system for "flat" skis.
It's no accident that KneeBindings have won every major on-snow performance award.
Why KneeBindings?
Each year, 70,000 skiers injure an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) on all other alpine bindings, making it the worst medical epidemic in the history of skiing. Most require surgery (often more than one), lost work, one or more lost seasons, and months of painful physical therapy.
Over 20% of the injured never ski again.
All alpine bindings release up at the heel and sideways at the toe.
These ordinary mechanisms are effective at reducing broken legs, but none helps protect against knee injuries.
(Not "diagonal" bindings, not "turntable" bindings, not even bindings with so-called "upward toe releases.")
Three-fourths (3/4) of all skiing ACL injuries are rear-weighted:the skier starts to fall backwards, bends hips and knees, and catches an inside edge.
The leg cannot rotate that way, and the knee is damaged.
KneeBindings Are Different.
KneeBinding is the only consumer binding on the market with hard, flat boot platforms, front AND rear, the exact width of the boot sole. Go figure! In fact, every detail of this union has been carefully engineered to maximize retention, edge grip and leverage, including the placement of the mounting screws, the geometry and placement of the AFDs, and the way the binding latches onto the boot.
KneeBinding release mechanisms are also designed to maximize elasticity. They "give" a little under sudden impact (rather than simply release) and snap right back. This means the binding can actually help you recover from a close call.
KneeBinding even offers a precise toe-height adjustment system that eliminates the "play" found in the toes of ordinary bindings.
The precise engineering of KneeBinding's FlexFloatTM Technology produces a difference you can actually feel on the snow. If you want more power, better leverage, improved edge-grip and better retention - you want KneeBindings.
FlexFloatTM Mounting System - The Ultimate Union of Boot to Ski.
Ordinary bindings are mounted in a way that makes them feel stiff and heavy - and release when you don't want them to. Their mounting systems create "flat spots," which limit the ski's ability to flex naturally. Turning isn't as easy because the ski can no longer form a perfect arc.
It's even worse when a ski with an ordinary binding must flex deeply, such as when it plows into a mogul, or flexes during a switch landing. When that happens, the distance between the heel cup and the toe cup narrows slightly, while the boot sole stays exactly the same size, and the binding has no choice but to pop open at the heel. This "bow effect" is the #1 cause of unwanted release in skiing.
KneeBindings Are Different!
Our unique, floating mount system allows the binding to feel completely rigid on the ski, and yet move - just a little - when the ski flexes. KneeBinding's carefully engineered FlexFloatTM Mounting System allows the ski to flex and turn more naturally - the way the manufacturer intended it to - and all but eliminates unwanted release.
Our FlexFloatTM Mounting System allows the ski to move with the terrain, without interfering with the boot-binding relationship.