Ski binding

Claim 1

A SKI BINDING FOR HOLDING A FOOT IN PLACE ON A WATER SKI COMPRISING: (A) A FLEXIBLE VAMP ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE FOREPART OF A FOOT AND HAVING LATERAL SIDE EDGES ADAPTED FOR FASTENING TO THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID SKI, (B) A GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED SLIDE PLATE, (C) A FLEXIBLE HEEL-ENGAGING COUNTER SECURED TO SAID SIDE PLATE, (D) A PAIR OF ELONGATED GIBS ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID SKI IN LATERALLY SPACED PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP REARWARDLY OF SAID VAMP AND HAVING VERTICALLY SPACED UPPER AND LOWER WALLS AND DEFINING OPPOSED CHANNELS FOR SLIDABLE RECEPTION OF ADJACENT SIDE EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID SLIDE PLATE LONGITUDINAL OF SAID SKI, (E) EACH GIB HAVING LONGITUDINALLY SPACED NOTCHES IN ONE OF SAID UPPER AND LOWER WALLS OF THE CHANNEL AND OPENING TOWARD THE OTHER OF SAID WALLS, (F) AND A GENERALLY U-SHAPED LATCH MEMBER DEFINING, AN INTERMEDIATE HANDLE PORTION, LATERALLY SPACED SIDE PORTIONS EACH EXTENDING GENERALLY LONGITUDINALLY OF AND ADJACENT A DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID GIBS AND EACH HAVING ONE END CONNECTED TO SAID SLIDE PLATE FOR COMMON SLIDING MOVEMENTS THEREWITH, AND LATERALLY EXTENDING LOCKING PORTIONS CONNECTING THE OTHER ENDS OF SAID SIDE PORTIONS WITH SAID HANDLE PORTION, (G) EACH OF SAID LOCKING PORTIONS BEING YIELDINGLY URGED GENERALLY VERTICALLY TOWARD SAID NOTCHES IN THE ADJACENT ONE OF SAID GIBS TO RELEASABLY LOCK SAID SLIDE PLATE AGAINST REARWARD MOVEMENT LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID GIBS.