Bindings – The hardware used to fasten ones feet to the snowboard. The interface between boots and board. There are two main categories of snowboard bindings — “soft” and “hard”. Soft bindings are the most popular kind and are termed for their use with soft boots used in various disciplines like freestyle and all-mountain.Hard bindings (or plate bindings) and for use with hard boots that look very much like alpine ski boots. These are used for carving or slalom/GS racing boards.Soft bindings:[smg id=57]