if you want to get a serious binding and plan on feeling like you control you board id get anything else. nothing against flow, they are cool bindings and the technology is definitely advancing, but from friends who have both flow bindings and traditional bindings, alot say traditional give you more of a attached feeling to the board, more control in carving and park situations. nothing is wrong with flow bindings and they are innovative, but if i was to start snowboarding i would pick up some regular bindings to start, and some mittens haha, cause you can undo and do-up bindings with mittens very easily