Patent ID: 8322730

Claim:
A snowboard, comprising: a single board including a fixed binding mounted on a topside of the snowboard and mostly perpendicular to a tip of said single board and further comprising a hinged, rotatable binding mounted on the topside of the single board, wherein said one fixed binding and said hinged, rotatable binding are mostly parallel during use of said single board by a user with feet of the user contained in boots and firmly mounted to the one fixed binding and the hinged, rotatably binding to descend down a snow covered hillside, and wherein said hinged, rotatable binding is moveable to a position mostly perpendicular to said fixed binding when a human user has only one foot mounted to the single board at said hinged, rotatable binding and the user is shuffling through a chairlift line or riding on a chairlift, said hinged, rotatable binding further comprising: a base plate which is mounted to the snowboard, a mid static disk coupled to said base plate by a hinge plate, said mid static disk rotationally coupled to a top rotating disk, wherein said top rotating disk mountable to the bottom of an integrated boot binding harness, and wherein said mid static disk acts as coupling between said snowboard and said top rotating disk and wherein said hinge plate further comprising a double hinge connecting said mid static disk and said base plate which supports rotation of said top rotating disk via said mid static disk relative to said base plate and snowboard, wherein said hinge plate further enables double hinge movement of said boot binding harness away from said snowboard at a toe area; and a latch lever mounted through an outer ridge of said base plate and connected to a retractable plunger using a retractable connection wherein said latch lever acts as a locking and release system for maintaining said top rotating disk parallel with said base plate or releasing said top rotating disk for rotation up to a 90 degrees with respect to said base plate via said mid static disk.