Abstract: A rotational boot binding for mounting on a free style snowboard. The binding allows the user of the snowboard to wear hard shell boots and while boarding rotate both feet in a vertical plane for shifting his or her weight to the toe or the heel of the board. The binding includes a base plate having a plurality of holes therein for attaching and adjusting the base plate at an angle from 30 to 120 degrees to an axis along a length of the snowboard and centered thereon. The base plate is attached to a foot plate by a horizontal pivot pin. The pivot pin allows the foot plate to rotate on the base plate in a vertical plane thereby allowing a shift of weight to the toe or to the heel of the snow board and thus control the movement of the snowboard. The binding includes a toe base plate, a toe foot plate, a heel base plate and a heel foot plate. By having separate toe plates and heel plates, the binding can be adjusted on the snowboard for a wide range of different lengths of boot.

Abstract: A binding used for securing a snowboarder's snowboots on top of a snowboard. Two pair of the bindings are used for mounting on the snowboard and received around a portion of the instep and around a portion of the toe of each snowboot. Broadly, each binding includes a flexible strap having a first end attached to a ratchet assembly mounted on the snowboard and adjacent one side of the snowboot. A second end of the strap is attached to a quick release assembly mounted on the snowboard and adjacent an opposite side of the snowboot. The ratchet assembly is used for tightening the flexible strap on the snowboot. The ratchet assembly includes a spool with spool gear. The first end of the strap is attached to the spool. A spool release lever is attached to a side of the spool gear. A spool advancing lever is pivotly mounted to the spool release lever. One end of the spool advancing lever is received between gear teeth of the spool gear.