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A binding that attaches a user\s foot to a snowboard includes a footplate that is rotatably and continuously fixed to the snowboard and which is attached to the user\s foot via straps and a rear support which contact a snowboot. An anchor fixes the footplate to the snowboard with the bottom of the f

A binding that attaches a user\s foot to a snowboard includes a footplate that is rotatably and continuously fixed to the snowboard and which is attached to the user\s foot via straps and a rear support which contact a snowboot. An anchor fixes the footplate to the snowboard with the bottom of the footplate as close to the snowboard as possible whereby the bottom of a snowboarder\s foot is as close to the plane of the snow as possible, and is slidably engaged with the footplate to permit that footplate to rotate while remaining attached to the snowboard. Anti-pivot spring pins located outside the outer perimeter of a user\s snowboot accurately and repeatably secure the footplate to the snowboard once the footplate is in the selected angular orientation on the snowboard.

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A binding for attaching a snowboarder\s foot to a snowboard comprising: A) a footplate having an outer perimeter and means for attaching said footplate directly to a snowboarder\s boot when the snowboarder\s foot is in the boot, said footplate having a bottom surface and said means positioning said

A binding for attaching a snowboarder\s foot to a snowboard comprising: A) a footplate having an outer perimeter and means for attaching said footplate directly to a snowboarder\s boot when the snowboarder\s foot is in the boot, said footplate having a bottom surface and said means positioning said bottom surface in direct contact with a top surface of the snowboard thereby placing a wearer\s foot immediately adjacent to the top surface of the snowboard; B) anchor means for rotatably attaching said footplate with the foot-containing boot attached thereto to a snowboard and maintaining said footplate and foot-containing boot continuously attached to said snowboard even when said footplate is rotated through an angle of ninety degrees or more with respect to a longitudinal centerline of the snowboard; and C) securing means for accurately and repeatably securing said footplate in a selected angular orientation, said securing means including a plurality of holes defined in the snowboard, said holes being arcuately arranged on the snowboard to be located outside of the outer perimeter of a user\s foot on said footplate.