Patent ID: 8573631

Claim:
A device for receiving a foot or a boot on a gliding apparatus, the receiving device comprising: a base plate extending in a longitudinal direction from a rear end to a front end; a rear support element structured and arranged to support rearwardly the lower leg of a user of the device; an articulation structure arranged to articulate the rear support element with respect to the base plate in an area of the rear end of the base plate to enable the rear support element to be moved selectively with respect to the base plate between a forward folded position and a rearward deployment position; an abutment structured and arranged to limit rearward movement of the rear support element with respect to the base plate at the deployment position; at the deployment position of the rear support element with respect to the base plate, the abutment being fixed to the base plate and having a self-supporting structure, the rearward movement of the rear support element at the deployment position being limited by action of the abutment along the longitudinal direction, the abutment being transversely flexible in order to assume a shape of the rear support element in the deployment position.