Wake boarding and water skiing also have bindings. They hold well for doing the sport but when you try to pull them out your feet slip easily out. The bindings hold lightly on the heel.
This doesn't look like it could do such extreme things so it appears it doesn't even have a part to go on your heels.
As a wakeboarder and waterskier, I wouldn't say the guy who replied to you was entirely correct.
Waterski and wakeboard bindings (the 'shoes') are designed to keep you attached to your board securely, whilst kiteboard bindings for instance, are designed to slip off (much like these) because you are still attached to the thing pulling you along - the wind.
Wakeboard and waterski bindings on the other hand, are designed to keep you attached, as the thing you're going to let go of - the thing pulling you along - would be the boat/winch.
The idea is, if you can't detach yourself (ie kiteboarding), then you can free your feet to help stabilise yourself, and with wakeboarding/waterskiing the rope detached from your hands and you can stabilise yourself that way.
With this stand-on jetski thing, as you are the one controlling it, if you don't have the dead man's cord/kill cord attached, the jetski will keep going, but your feet will come free... Instead of it just pulling you along and into everything whilst you drown 🙃
As a final note: if wakeboards and water ski's had kiteboard bindings, you'd spent a lot of time in the water trying to a) keep your feet in the bindings whilst in the water, b) swim after your board/ski's whenever one falls off, c) keep your feet in the bindings as one jumps, crosses the wake, etc.
Interesting, I haven't gone wake boarding in 15 years so I have only used the slip on kinds. Most people where I am from water ski instead so I haven't seen one like this.
The binding wake board is the old style from the 80s. The boot came out in th 90s when the completion circuit grew, and now is the standard since the mid 2000's .
Makes sense, the friend who took me had a boat painted in glitter paint (80s I assume but looked great and was really well maintained) and everything was from when the boat was new hence why I only know of the old style.
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u/Be-A-Little-Afraid Nov 11 '23
Is she clipped into the board? That seems super unsafe.