Snowboard binding angles refer to your foot positioning on the snowboard and are expressed with the front binding angle being written first followed by the rear binding angle, for example: (15°/0°).

You won’t need to get out a protractor to work out your snowboard binding angles because the angles are printed on the inside of the bindings themselves around the circumference of the snowboard binding discs. What angles you choose are down to personal preference and your snowboarding style; freeride, freestyle, racing, etc.

If you stand on your snowboard completely sideways and then attach your bindings where your feet were, you would have binding angles of (0°/0°). If you rotate your feet a little toward to nose of your snowboard you may have binding angles of (15°/15°). If you rotate your front foot a bit more in the direction of the snowboards nose but keep your rear foot in the same position you may have snowboard binding angles of (25°/15°). Again its all down to what feels most comfortable to you.

Freeride binding angles for a typical freeride stance with a freeride snowboard and soft boots & bindings would be (30°/10°). Some experienced riders like to rotate their back foot a small amount towards the tail, which makes the snowboard binding angle have a negative angle (15°/-3°). This is called ‘Duckfoot‘, and is said to aid stability and fakie riding (snowboarding in the opposite direction to the one you normally ride). A racing snowboarder or alpine snowboarder would usually ride with much steeper binding angles such as (55°/50°).

Many soft boot snowboard bindings have an adjustable disc marked with numbers that correlate to your snowboard binding angles. Adjust these to your desired angles. If your snowboard bindings do not have the angle printed then it’s out with the protractor, however, this is highly unlikely as most modern snowboard bindings these days have the angles printed or engraved on them. If you do not have the angles marked the teeth on your snowboard bindings usually force 3° steps at a time so once you figure out where 0° is you can work out your angles from the number of teeth steps in multiples of 3°.

The key here is to try out a variety of different snowboard binding angles in the suitable range for the riding style you are doing. The more you experiment the closer you will get to finding what snowboard binding angles work for you.