Comments on: Q & A with George from Union Binding Company

By: Shayboarder

Shayboarder — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:23:00 +0000

Awesome congrats on the new bindings!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:33:00 +0000

scooped a pair of force MC .. wow these things are incredible. Union for life!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:00 +0000

just got these and rode them today. best bindings ever hands down. Regardless of the comments on the Force SL, these aren’t just for minibiking. they ride amazing at high speed and perform way beyond my Cartels from last year. Plus they are made by cool dudes and not a mega corp. GO UNION!!! I’m a lifer!!!

By: NCPsales ! ! ! !

NCPsales ! ! ! ! — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:48:00 +0000

hey, patent this !

By: Shayboarder

Shayboarder — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:44:00 +0000

Behind the scenes of all the companies are cease and desists and patent violations. Lawyers are making bank off the snowboard industry…it’s nothing new.

For example, Never Summer using “recurve camber” in the beginning which was wording used on the Lib Skis…resulted in a cease and desist to NS from Lib this year…to not use that wording anymore. Also mentioned was that the rocker patent would be looked at to see if it crossed into libs reverse camber patent.

So while it might go that companies are fine with it…behind the scenes, they might not be. Lib is owned by Quik…you gotta admit that Quik might not be as openminded as Pete about other companies making money off their patent.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Fight for the little guy!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:03:00 +0000

Detroit auto industry=soon-to-be burton.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:20:00 +0000

Thanks for the explanation peeps. I knew the Baltimore had to be there for some reason. It’s funny that the last comment mentioned Burton suing another snowboard company. I was reading an article about how Burton sued a few snowboard companies (Don’t know who) who came out with a 3 hole bolt pattern in there snowboards. The story came from an interview with Mike Olson from Lib/Gnu and Mike sent Burton a picture of Lib with a 3 bolt pattern they put on their boards a year or so before Burton started claiming it, and Mike told Burton that they should be ashamed of themselves. Based on the story Burton received money from some snowboard companies for copying their patent, but never sent another thing to Mervin for the 3 bolt pattern, because Burton knew they didn’t invent it. (Don’t have an internet site or reference of this story, so take it as you want, but I know I read it) The reason I mention this is that Burton pisses me off a lot of times. I just feel that even though they put a lot into the sport, they ruin it at the same time. I think that if it were up to Burton everybody would be riding a Burton board and every competition would be called the Burton Open. I had the opportunity to talk to Pete Saari at the Stack Footy premier in Seattle this year, and I made a comment about other companies jumping on the reverse camber band wagon that Mervin has marketed and produced more than any other company within the last 2 years. Pete was hating on anybody, and was actually stoked on companies thinking outside the box, and was stoked on boards (regardless of who makes them) being better to ride for the consumers. I guess my point is that Burton seems to act like nazis sometimes in the snowboard world, and other companies let their product sell their boards for them with quality, innovation, creativity, etc without forcing it on the consumer. This is just my opinion, and NO I DONT WORK FOR MERVIN.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:35:00 +0000

Yes, it's called Baltimore style because Justin Hebbel was the first one to do it. He's from Baltimore.

Justin rode for Technine, Burton copied it, and Flux somehow has a patent for it.

Go figure.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:09:00 +0000

the technine baltimore strap was the first to market toe-cap strap. burton jumped on it-as theirs was supposed to be a late to following season release. burton tried to sue t9 to stall their first to market… due to burton’s “man corp” power, both parties settled on sharing the patent.

…and your velcome.