I ski for Dynastar, look and lange, I've been jibbing for a long time and I've never had a serious knee injury. I've also been working as a binding tech for the last two years and I take a serious interest in the needs us jibbers have for good bindings. (being a tech really doesn't mean shit though, because a lot of techs are total idiots and think they ride hard)
Some pictures of me gaying it up to testify as to how hard I ride.
this one's just fucking hilarious
Anyways, somebody brought back a thread that Ryan Spinks posted back in 02 when he also rode for Dynastar suggesting that jibbers take their suggested din setting and add 4 to it.
Specifically he posted this:
"I suggest skiers new to the newschool scene follow this formula. Suggested DIN Setting + 4. Landings put a lot of torque on bindings, and sometimes the suggested setting isn’t enough, and you pop out, even on the easiest of landings. So we crank them down a bit. Now everybody has his or her own preference. I am 5'10', 160, and I ride the Look ZRR 18, DIN at 13."
Personally, I think this is some of the worst advice I've ever read, and I think if Ryan himself read this now he would undoubtedly "repent" making these statements (I think he ended up blowing his knee, but I'm not sure).
First off Ryan is saying that if you're 5'3" 110lbs and because of your boot sole length and skier type your suggested din is a 5, that you should then crank your bindings up to 9. Which is a ridiculous idea.
Second, with the amount of twisting and backwards twisting (i.e. landing backseat while still spinning) falls that park skiers experience, the last thing we should be doing is cranking our toepiece up way high.
If you're having problems prereleasing on landings that you could've saved its best to analyse which way you released. Now if you're heelpiece is still up like you were clicked in when you find your ski, you either released from your toe from the side, or upwards. If you're heelpiece is down like you took your ski off yourself then you released from your heel. Heel releases happen often on landings that could have been saved. For example, you land switch but a lot of your weight is out on the tips of your ski and you are hand dragging, then suddenly your binding lets go and you're on your face sliding down the landing.
If you have markers it is likely you will experience premature upward toe releases, because of markers "biometric system". In this case your heelpiece will still be up like you're clicked in but you didn't feel like you were twisting on your landing, Instead the sheeer impact cause your bindings to release. Marker's Biometric upward toe release system cuts the upward toe release din value in half when your boot toe lifts up to certain height in your toe piece. The result is that on a Stomped landing your ski can just fly off for seemingly no reason. There are lots of other factors too but the bottom line is if you're jibbing on markers and having problems prereleasing, don't crank up your toe din, because when you really need to actually twist out of your binding you're not going to. Instead save those markers for some purely recreational skier that never leaves the ground and get yourself some nice looks or Sollys.
I'm getting tired of typing so I'm just going to say:
When you get your bindings set mark yourself as a 3+ skier, then when you get them back turn your heel up 1 din value higher.
If you have markers, get new bindings that aren't markers
Don't get race stocks unless you have broken the plastic parts on consumer bindings in the past.
Also for more information on race stocks, check this thread
https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/198382/
PEACE
