Bindings, what do you set yours at?

[natty dread]

Last year had a pair of S900s. Started em out 1 above my chart range, 9-10. Ended up not being happy with em even set at 13.

On the other hand, all my 8-18 binders are set at 11 and i couldnt be happier with em.

Anyone have a similiar experience?

Yep. Keep my 900s at 13-14, while the 916s work fine at 11-12.

[sea2ski]

Just have two observations about the discussion in this thread so far.

1) Isn't the age of your bindings also something to consider when setting your DIN. The older the bindings the more likely the DIN needs to be raised. However, I guess everyone else here is spancered or gets new bindings every year.

2) Damn people are skinny here, eat something.

[Sphinx]

I feel so inferior.

I voted 8, but then I checked, and I'm closer to 8.5/9. Freerides.

And then, with all this talk, I clicked in, and yep, I can release standing still, with my wimpy little AT boots.

Hmmm.

I do crank them up to 11 when I don't want a ski coming off, and I just ski more conservatively on the flats.

6'3", 210, size 13/14 feet.

[Z]

I feel so inferior.

I voted 8, but then I checked, and I'm closer to 8.5/9. Freerides.

And then, with all this talk, I clicked in, and yep, I can release standing still, with my wimpy little AT boots.

Hmmm.

I do crank them up to 11 when I don't want a ski coming off, and I just ski more conservatively on the flats.

6'3", 210, size 13/14 feet.

I think if i blow on my freerides the wrong way they will release.

[Sphinx]

No worries, I have Dynafits, too.

[Z]

No worries, I have Dynafits, too.

heh. not the response i would expect, but ok.

I think if I put dynafits on my skis i would murder them within 1 hour of skiing. Unless i can set them at 24. In which case I am so fucking in.

[Tippster]

Eleventyfourand a half.

My feet are tiny.

[sea2ski]

My feet are tiny.

Slow pitch...

[crashnburn'd]

Slow pitch...

MTV disproved this theory.

[Stanyo]

I keep my bindings set around 9 or 10, and I'm about 5'4" and 130 pounds. I'm pretty small, but I jump a alot and keeping the din that high works pretty well, I still prerelease a bit, though.

[DBdude]

Esp. since high din bindos don;t usually have upward toe release.

Except MARKER, hence there suckiness. I have a pair of high DIN Markers set at 11.5 and they really suck. Come of at the weirdest times, an example would be when I'm in ice moguls in complete control. I'm not a great technical skier. Sheet in and sail ugly is my motto for skiing. But damn, they suck.

With my weight and boot length at the "extremo" column on the DIN charts I'm a 8.5.

[Jim S]

"Marker" spelled backwards is "Launch"

[mtbakerskier]

I like to keep my looks and my sollies at 16. However Im not a jibber either.

[Tippster]

"Marker" spelled backwards is "Launch"

Huh. I always thought it was WREcKRAM

[Dside11-11]

Yep. Keep my 900s at 13-14, while the 916s work fine at 11-12.

Dude, don't max your springs. 12 max on S900's. Anything else WILL prematurely evacuate.

[Meathelmet]

I like to keep my looks and my sollies at 16. However Im not a jibber either.

And you wonder why you Naxos wont last...

Graaaaaaaantt?!

[DINMS]

Riiiiight. Easy for you to say because you've trained yourself to do it. Same with Coldsmoke; he can ski on one ski with either leg. I can't do it at all. I could probably learn, but I'm not patient that way. Maybe if I had learned when I was younger... Anyway, since I can't even ski a green run on one ski that logic doesn't work for me. I can't afford to lose a ski anywhere, particularly in chutes like Suicide, Pipeline, North Chute, Lenin, etc. If I lose a ski I'm screwed cuz there's no way I can ski down. Seriously.

How's your acl?

[Sphinx]

heh. not the response i would expect, but ok.

I think if I put dynafits on my skis i would murder them within 1 hour of skiing. Unless i can set them at 24. In which case I am so fucking in.

You wouldn't destroy them.

You might prerelease a bunch, but you won't destroy them. They're hard to destroy.

And given the softness of Dynafit compatible boots, you might not even prerelease!

Plus, the new Dynafit goes to 12 this year.

Or just get the race Dynafits that don't have lateral release.

[Z]

You wouldn't destroy them.

You might prerelease a bunch, but you won't destroy them. They're hard to destroy.

And given the softness of Dynafit compatible boots, you might not even prerelease!

Plus, the new Dynafit goes to 12 this year.

Or just get the race Dynafits that don't have lateral release.

heh. i bet i wouldn't destory them....

By murder, i mean i would take my ski pole, and physically murder them.

[Sphinx]

A pole won't help you much. It would take a #3 pozidrive and a tiny allen wrench.

I bet their metal to plastic mass ratio is higher than P18s. Bragging rights, baby!

[Darkside]

5'11", 185lbs. and I ski my P18's at 10-11 early season, 12-14 usually.

[wanghoeby]

I end up leaving my fronts lower than the rear. My tall stature allows the rear to heal lift out at lower settings, but my low body wieght wont twist out of the fronts correctly at the same setting. It's the tall skinny guy combo.

[Spicoli]

I no longer mess with bindings. I'm now using Velcro and have had zero problems. As far as weight savings...wow!

[Z]

A pole won't help you much. It would take a #3 pozidrive and a tiny allen wrench.

Screw it then. I'll just ship em out to mildbill. He'll take care of em.

[altagirl]

Perhaps the high settings some are using is why there seems to be so many knee injuries around here? I can twist my foot out of my binding or pull my heel up with a bit of effort, but not enough to tweek anything so if I started a slow twisting fall I can easily force my bindings to release.

Nope. I ski with my bindings set at manufacturers recommendations. And still blew out a knee skiing about 6 years ago. My other (recent) blown knee was mountain biking, on flat pedals no less. I'm talented.

I've read studies that said you could still tear an ACL if your bindings were set at the lowest possible settings. It doesn't take much force at all, and I know when I blew my knee skiing it wasn't a motion that would have made my bindings even try to release - my foot stayed still and I fell backwards and to the side (in bumps). My lesson learned out of the whole thing was to quit pushing myself when I'm too tired and sore - that's when I'm going to get hurt. My DIN setting was where it was supposed to be and I don't believe it would have made any difference if it was set lower or higher.