Binding components for a gliding board

A binding for a snowboard, comprising:

• a binding base that includes a medial sidewall and a lateral sidewall, and a medial base portion and a lateral base portion, each of said medial base portion and said lateral base portion positioned between said medial sidewall and said lateral sidewall and together defining a hold-down device receiving area wherein said lateral base portion and said medial base portion are interrupted so as to be separate and spaced from each other;
• a hold-down device arranged for receipt in said hold-down device receiving area for mounting said binding base to a snowboard, said hold-down device including a first portion and a second portion, said medial and lateral base portions each including a plurality of teeth engageable to complementary teeth on said first and second portions of said hold-down device in a plurality of angular positions of said binding base relative to said hold-down device;
• at least one snowboard boot retention feature;
• and
• a bridge that connects medial and lateral regions of the binding base at a toe end of the binding base;
• wherein said first portion is arranged to engage with said medial base portion and said second portion is arranged to engage with said lateral base portion when said hold-down device mounts said binding base to a snowboard, and said medial base portion and said lateral base portion are arranged to be movable relative to one another when mounted to a snowboard by the hold down device in response to bending forces of the snowboard.