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A rotational boot binding for mounting on a free style snowboard. The binding allows the user of the snowboard to wear hard shell boots and while boarding rotate both feet in a vertical plane for shifting his or her weight to the toe or the heel of the board. The binding includes a base plate having

A rotational boot binding for mounting on a free style snowboard. The binding allows the user of the snowboard to wear hard shell boots and while boarding rotate both feet in a vertical plane for shifting his or her weight to the toe or the heel of the board. The binding includes a base plate having a plurality of holes therein for attaching and adjusting the base plate at an angle from 30 to 120 degrees to an axis along a length of the snowboard and centered thereon. The base plate is attached to a foot plate by a horizontal pivot pin. The pivot pin allows the foot plate to rotate on the base plate in a vertical plane thereby allowing a shift of weight to the toe or to the heel of the snow board and thus control the movement of the snowboard. The binding includes a toe base plate, a toe foot plate, a heel base plate and a heel foot plate. By having separate toe plates and heel plates, the binding can be adjusted on the snowboard for a wide range of different lengths of boot. A pair of the subject bindings for the front foot and the rear foot are mounted on the snowboard for different types of foot stances such as a duck foot stance. Also, the bindings can be used for a regular foot mounting with the left foot forward on the snowboard or a goofy foot mounting with the right foot forward on the snowboard.

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[ The embodiments of the invention for which an exclusive privilege and property right is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] A rotational boot binding for mounting on a free style snowboard, the snowboard having a horizontal axis along a length of a center line of the snowboard, the binding recei

[ The embodiments of the invention for which an exclusive privilege and property right is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] A rotational boot binding for mounting on a free style snowboard, the snowboard having a horizontal axis along a length of a center line of the snowboard, the binding receiving a boot releasably secured thereon, the binding comprising:a base plate adapted for mounting on the snowboard, said base plate positioned on the snowboard at an angle to the horizontal axis of the center line of the snowboard;a foot plate pivotally mounted on said base plate, said foot plate rotating in a vertical plane on said base plate, said foot plate adapted for receiving the boot thereon; anda pair of rubber bumpers mounted on opposite sides of said base plate, said bumpers engaging a portion of said foot plate for limiting the amount of rotation of said foot plate, said rubber bumpers adjustable on said base plate for adjusting the amount of rotation of said foot plate.