Pros: As good as any other binding, plus knee protection
Cons: Hard to find
Mounted these on my Gotamas. After a knee injury I switched to snowboarding thinking it would be safer. Now after 4 years, I'm returning to skiing because of these bindings. They give me to confidence to hit it hard again and I couldn't be happier. Because of my nervousness I'm set to a type II skier DIN and although I'm skiing fairly aggressively in all conditions and all mountain, I haven't had an unexpected release yet.
Stepping into them feels positive and just like any other binding I've skied. They ski exactly like the markers I had on the demo Gotatmas. So really there seems to be no sacrifice for these bindings.
Plus I like supporting the small company here. Marker sales reps must take my local ski shop on massive heli-ski trips or something because so they talked badly about Kneebinding but knew absolutely nothing about them. So I called them directly to ask questions and their chairman gave me about 30 minutes of his time explaining their technology, thought that was really nice. Then I gave my business to REI, the only shop carrying them in Seattle.
Stepping into them feels positive and just like any other binding I've skied. They ski exactly like the markers I had on the demo Gotatmas. So really there seems to be no sacrifice for these bindings.
Plus I like supporting the small company here. Marker sales reps must take my local ski shop on massive heli-ski trips or something because so they talked badly about Kneebinding but knew absolutely nothing about them. So I called them directly to ask questions and their chairman gave me about 30 minutes of his time explaining their technology, thought that was really nice. Then I gave my business to REI, the only shop carrying them in Seattle.
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