I recently made the tough decision to go with a pair of 2005 Murray Bindings, temporarily (despite my CWB loyalty) in effort to provide my bad ankle with maximum support so that I can hopefully ride while protecting my healing ankle. I'm curious on how everyone thinks binding stiffness affects your style. I hear things like Mike Schweene preferring his old Solbounds (which are flexible) so he can poke, tweak, and bone everything out, which clearly he does. Then you have guys like Harf riding the Murrays, and still being able to tweak out nuclear whirlys. So do you think that stiff bindings really limit your style or even change it? I don't have any style anyway, but I'm pretty sure that going from ultra flexible to ultra stiff is going to take some getting used to. These things feel really comfortable, but really foreign. First ride on them is today.
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