FlexTrack & 4D system

Without a doubt, the most exciting development in the wakeboard industry in recent years is once again Liquid Force. Not only the inventor of the sport of wakeboarding, but one of the most influential wakeboard innovations since the birth of the sport, LF has been responsible for the most significant wakeboard innovations. The result of no less than three years of development and continuous testing is the new Liquid Force FLEXTRACK and its associated 4D wakeboard bindings.

The ever more dominant use of wakeboard parks and track elements around the world is creating new challenges for manufacturers. High tolerance to battery use and optimum flexibility are mandatory features of wakeboards today. Thanks to Liquid Force, the first hybrids have opened up a new dimension in wakeboard durability and flexibility.

Meanwhile, the boundaries of the sport of wakeboarding have been pushed and riders are performing ever more extreme and eye-catching stunts. The demands are getting tougher and the expectations are getting higher. The flex index of wakeboards has become the defining feature. The biggest obstacle to perfect longitudinal flexibility is still the joints and the attachment points responsible for their connection, i.e. the inert rows that are built into the board and provide a connection point for the joints. The wide rigid bases of the installed joints and the rigid zones below the joints prevent the boards from bending. This performance bottleneck is minimized by the FLEXTRACK/4D development.

FLEXTRACK is a rail built into the wakeboard that flexes, twists and bends in all directions. And the 4D binding is the all-time smallest footprint wakeboard binding system, coupled with Flextrack to minimize board flex. What's more, the connection between the Flextrack board and the 4D bindings is so tight that for the first time it really feels like the boot and board are one unit, rather than separate parts assembled together. The result is picture-perfect board control. All the while, the spacing of the joints, or the spacer size, can be adjusted with micro precision. You only have to try a Flextrack-mounted baord and a 4D joint to be convinced of the astonishing perfection of flexibility and precise controllability.

While Flextrack-equipped wakeboards can accommodate any standard 6-inch sole width binding, 4D bindings can only connect to Flextrack-equipped boards.

Flextrack's mounting rail sibling is a type of binding called a 4D. Pairing the two is necessary for optimized performance. Used together, they achieve perfect anchoring and the least possible obstructed flexing of the wakeboard. The sole cradle of 4D bindings has the smallest “footprint” ever, minimizing the anchorage zone and its stiffening effect on the flexing of our board. Thanks to the new binding design, 4D bindings offer up to 10-15% weight advantage over their predecessors.There is no question that today's cable wakeboard trend, worldwide, is all about the ever-increasing variety of track elements and the endless possibilities of tricks that can be performed on them. Optimal use of wakeboard flex in cable parks, while using track elements, is an increasingly important consideration, more and more often a yardstick in the choice of wakeboard. The Liquid Force Flextrack and 4D system is clearly aimed at this trend, the perfection of park use, and it certainly delivers, with the quality that the brand is known for.