Flexible Snowboard System

The project, Flexible Snowboard System, has been carried out by the project group independently and is a module developed for snowboarders, ski rentals and ski schools. The problems of today’s solutions are that they cause the user an inconvenient standing position when riding the ski lift or skating the transportation slope, also mounting, adjustments and disassembling of the bindings are time consuming and brings undesired wear to the screws and screw holes. In addition any adjustments require that the user steps out of the bindings and have tools at hand. Flexible Snowboard System is a universal module which means that it can be assembled with all of today’s snowboards and bindings. The module enables the user to do standing position adjustments with 360 degrees rotation within a 10 centimeters long interval along the snowboard’s length direction and saves time and wear when assembling/disassembling. Flexible Snowboard System includes few components which makes manufacturing and assembling easy and inexpensive. By an easy maneuver the user can adjust the standing position as he or she prefer. The result of this project is a prototype which firstly eases the snowboard session for the user when the module enables different standing options optimized for conditions like powder, park or piste. Flexible Snowboard System offers a great opportunity for ski rentals and ski schools to increase customer values on account of minimized idle time. The implementation of our product would bring low investment costs because it’s universal and fit the equipment they use today, easy to manufacture and assembly. The carry through of project Flexible Snowboard Binding has been according to dynamic product development and the project group has had great use of the different methods and tools such as idea generating, model making, evaluation matrixes and testing