and movement in back country attracted me more than a park or a half pipe. At the time there wasn’t almost any proper gear for splitboarding on the market. 

I tried splitboard from Burton, but it didn’t meet my expectations. 

I even converted to the skis for a while.

From these actions I came to a conclusion: For my trips to the back country I needed something, that will take me uphill as lightly as skis and at the same time I’ll be able to go downhill "sideways" as on a snowboard. 

Nobody will convince me that riding downhill on skis can compete with the feeling of riding downhill on a snowboard.

At Ispo, a trade fair in Germany, I met with Will from Spark R&D. Considering that company Spark R&D was able to deliver me their bindings for the same price as it would take me to make them, 

so I took binding from Spark and they do excelet job.

By that a question of a high quality bindings was solved and I was able to redirect my concentration to the splitboard.

Now, 12Th years later I am deeply back in development of my binding. as I feel that we have to move forward and solve some issues what is still out there. 

I am fully now working on new binding, call SOLO ..