Patent ID: 8132818

Claim:
A binding for a snowboard, comprising: a binding base that includes a medial sidewall and a lateral sidewall, and a medial base portion and a lateral base portion, each of said medial base portion and said lateral base portion positioned between said medial side wall and said lateral side wall and together defining a hold-down device receiving area; a hold-down device arranged for receipt in said hold-down device receiving area for mounting said binding base to a snowboard, said hold-down device including a medial portion and a lateral portion, and a hinge connection between said medial portion and said lateral portion, said medial and lateral base portions each including a plurality of teeth engageable to complementary teeth on said medial and lateral portions of said hold-down device in a plurality of angular positions of said binding base relative to said hold-down device; and at least one snowboard boot retention feature.