Salomon Hologram Binding

Salomon Hologram In Depth Review

The Salomon Hologram is a continuation from the Relay series is a unique and welcome progression.  The Relay was liked by some, but others were luke warm to cold on them.  The new Hologram was liked by everyone at The Good Ride and most people we have spoken don’t have much bad to say about them.  So this gives you freedom of movement while still giving you some decent support.   We rode these with soft to aggressive freestyle to all mountain freestyle boards and they all worked very well and even with mostly camber boards.  We’d say the sweet spot is more in the soft to medium flexing, easier turning freestyle to all moutnain freestyle boards. They accomplish this with what they call shadow tech explained here in this video. 

It’s easier to grab the outer parts of your board, easier to lean into a butter and counter intuitively makes you feel more confident. The shock absorption is better than we expected and we had a lot of fun playing around on these bindings. This is a Good Ride Favorite and a binding we like to use on aggressive to soft flexing boards. On top of that, the binding is canted so most feel it’s easier on your hips, knees and ankles.

A quick overview of the Salomon Holigram

Flex- The Hologram is very flexy and soft in the heel loop but the high back is more on the soft side of medium. It has a medium/soft torsional flex that does a good job letting you move a little more naturally with the board.

Adjustability- Salomon took a queue from Flux and built the new Hologram with a tool-less system that makes for easy adjustment.  The only thing you need is a screw for screwing the base plate into the board. You can also perfectly dial in the high back angle to the edge of the board just like you can with Burton bindings.

Comfort- The whole design of this binding is very comfortable from the way the heel loop conforms to the boot to the way the over sized ankle strap wraps around the foot.  We are big fans of the over-sized ankle strap and really like it as it’s very easy on the feet.  There is also a mellow cant in the binding to make for an easier ride because it will line up your feet, knees and possibly hips up more naturally with the way your body works.

Response- Now you would think with the soft high back and the incredibly soft base plate would make this a nightmare for response.  To our surprise this has very good edge to edge response.  You forget you have a heel loop that is rubber and Kevlar   The binding allows the board to flex very well under foot thanks to Salomon removing all parts except the disc that obstruct the flex. It’s a great feel.

Weight- It’s very light.  It’s not the top of the light world but it felt like it was lighter than most.

Lateral Movement-  You would think with that much longitudinal flexing that the binding wouldn’t work well for a butter or press because there is no leverage but we were really wrong here.  It might even have more leverage than your standard binding.  The Highback’s flex is similar to your typical mid range soft binding.

Dampening- It’s not the kind of binding we would want to put on the Burner but it’s going to work perfect with a board similar to the Sabotage that handles speed well but not excellent.

Shock Absorption- The Hologram has tons of EVA padding throughout the binding and can handle a bad landing with the best of them.

All in all, this is one of those bindings where the designer took a big risk with this new tech and against all conventional binding odds it won.

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