After 7 years in development and hundreds of hours of testing, the Salomon Team felt ready to put the new Shift binding to the ultimate test – 10 days of hard skiing from a remote basecamp in the mountains near Revelstoke, BC.
Featuring the skiing of Chris Rubens, Leah Evans, Josh Daiek, Alexi Godbout, and Benoit Sublet.
Music by The Siege courtesy of The Musicbed
Producing: Switchback
About the shift bindings : http://shift-bindings.salomon.com/
The new S/LAB SHIFT binding ushers in the next generation of freeride capability, blending the touring efficiency of a pin (low-tech) binding, with the performance of an alpine freeride binding.
hyyyyype
Ohh yeah! Makes me stoked for winter!
Crazy vid, loved every single bit of it
that´s a promotion video I like very much! *wank*
I’d like to see how it preforms under the most challenging conditions on longer hikes. I.e starting by sea level with warmer wet snow, moving up towards the peak where it gets colder, freezing winds where that wet snow starts turning to ice.
In this vid it seems they have constant cold temps, dry conditions, awesome conditions. But not really rough for the binding.
If there is alot of tech/moving parts in the binding (the toe piece is mentioned in the vid) that could freeze, Id be really interested to see how it holds up and what has been done to prevent these types of issues. Not sold just yet, but tempted for sure!
3:22 Oh gosh I don’t even want to know how long it took them to get those skis back…
A. U. S. T. R. I. A !!!!!!!
I hope this is what heaven is like
Probs to the whole Salomon crew
Now I really wanna buy this binding 🙂
And I think if someone wants to promote their product, their need to show the functions of the product as reel as possible.
Well done
hey salomon! Nice story telling. But if you wanna really test the binding, you got to hike up and ski down on tricky conditions, icy snow! creating a tech binding that holds in powder is one thing, but to ensure security in icy conditions is the holy grale youre talking about.
3:22 when bae says she’s home alone
Take me with you next time please
Ahh so stoked!
What’s the name of the song at the beginning
Yo the season is about to start in Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im listening to music that is perfectly in sync with everything in the video!
parfait pour l’helico bonap
So i bought a pair of shift bindings and i’m excited to try them out this winter. I’m still a bit skeptical, however, when i hear from reviews and ads that the bindings are the perfect solution to the problem they’re trying to solve. I’m sure that there is room for improvement, and that in the coming years, the shift binding will evolve and get better. That said, i think they’ve gone in the right direction, and that’s why i was willing to take a chance on the binding. The shift binding is driving toward the perfect solution to the problem i’ve had: which is having a binding that can tour, but also give me some confidence in reliable release characteristics on the down-hill, and give great down-hill performance. In general, the more moving parts and the more complex something is, the more likely it is to break or ice-up, so we’ll see how the binding does in practice as it becomes more widely used. There is also some concern as to the thickness of the binding in how high it requires your boot to sit above the ski.
Love what you do and how you do it.
Wow.. Just floored.. Totally. This is amazing ..
One word…Dynafit.
Remember when Salomon Freeski TV still existed and they made short-format documentaries around interesting people and places in the world of skiing? Now we just have Salomon TV tricking us into watching ads and running videos. Y’all done fucked up.
That is sick!
I’ll stick to the sled
How long did it take to get that wood stove in there? Was that brought in by sled or did physically tow it. Star lineup for this story..
JUst got my QST99 and stoked to get out ,,, great vid
I have a brand new pair but they can’t be used, don’t point, don’t look at them…
by far the best promotion I have ever seen
Sick! Need to check out that binding. Where can I book such a ski trip? I mean the freeriding + camping
Les français ont vous repère à 10km quand vous utilisez la langue de Shakespeare.
Just love the french accent :’)
This is torture!
Which backpack are they using?