PUPS — the Precision Universal Plate System — is a two-piece mechanical interface that lives between your ski and your binding. A base plate mounts to each ski, just like a traditional binding. A top plate carries each binding. The two halves mechanically engage on three axes and lock in place. Now, your binding becomes something you move rather than something you mount.
Simple to use. No compromises. The setup you want, when you need it.
Step through the sequence below — installation is simple, and operation is smooth and seamless.
Rotate the top plate onto the base plate and the interface engages against vertical, horizontal, and lateral loads simultaneously. Nothing relies on clamping force or friction — the geometry itself carries the load, then the locking pins drop in and the two plates behave as one piece.
What that means underfoot: no slop when you load an edge, no creep over a season, and no hollow, floating feel between boot and ski. It transmits like a directly mounted binding because, mechanically, it is one.
Top plates arrive pre-drilled for the most common alpine, touring and telemark patterns. You bolt your binding to its top plate once — that pairing never comes apart again — and from then on the binding travels between skis instead of being installed into them.
Buy one base plate set per ski, one top plate set per binding. The combinations multiply from there.
The base plate accepts the top plate at any position up to ±2 cm* from the factory-recommended line. One ski, several personalities — and the change takes minutes on a tailgate, not an afternoon in a shop.
Every plate system trades stack height for versatility. PUPS spends eight millimetres — thinner than a phone — and gives back a footprint wider than a standard binding's, so the load spreads further across the ski and more of your input arrives at the edge.
The base plate is POM-H: flexible enough to move with the ski's camber, tough enough to hold whatever you can throw at it. The top plate is 7075 aluminium for hard charging at the resort or Carbon Fiber to shave weight in the backcountry.
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Built in a garage in Anchorage by two skiers who were tired of choosing between skis instead of riding them.