Replying to Braking the brakes
Well I have broken my brake tons of times and I am sick of it. Whenever I land switch or ski switch. some times I catch a brake and it bends forward. That was my old pair. I would just bend it back and go back to jibbing. Well I got so fed up with this that I ripped the brakes off and tied a rope to the binding. I would then tie the rope around my leg and be off. It was nice, whenever I crashed I wouldnt have to hike up and get my ski. Well I saved up and bought a pair off invaders with scratch 120 bindings. The invaders didn't work out so good so I switched bindings. The scratch bindings on my old skis(trouble-makers) and my invaders in a box. This worked out fine until today. I was landing switch pretty much all day. Then when I landed switch off one jump I was ski off when I caught an edge one ski ripped off and I caught myself. I stopped, my brother came down with my ski. I put it on and when I looked down I saw my other ski had one brake backwards and one forwards. So I skied down the hill with one ski on and tryed to fix it myself. I ended up unhooking it and letting it hang loosely but I tucked it so it wouldn't bother me. But all this got me thinking, Why don't they make bindings that are safe to ride switch and land switch with no problem. I mean why can't they bend them so they can't hit. Or should we go to the rope thing but make it look good and not noticeable. So please binding companys do this so I won't have to bend or go to the shop to fix it so that I can brake them again.
Thank you for reading this if you read it.
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