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Clicking into bindings backwards?

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white+wolf
Posts: 874 - Karma: 492
Does anybody else snap into their bindings backwards sometimes?  It is just fun to count the number of times people ask/tell you that you are backwards in your skis.
Mar 1 2008 1:15PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
i went skiing switch at my local hill, and a ski instructor came up to me at the bottom and said he wanted to try it (but he had carving skis), so he clicked in backwards and tried skied switch

got some odd looks from the chair

Mar 1 2008 1:17PM
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notomatoplz
Posts: 1377 - Karma: 29
didnt know it was possible...
Mar 1 2008 1:18PM
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tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
cant
Mar 1 2008 1:23PM
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MADmidwest
Posts: 1278 - Karma: 15

lmao, thats going to be hilarious. i had no iidea that i could do that but i just snapped in backwards and that is truly amazing.

Mar 1 2008 1:28PM
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SeanB
Posts: 3022 - Karma: 71
I'd never thought of that either, at first I thought the idea was rediculous but the more I think about it the more I think I'm going to have to try it.
Mar 1 2008 1:39PM
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keystoner1
Posts: 2143 - Karma: 11
i cant do it :((((((((((((((((((((((((
Mar 1 2008 1:43PM
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Shorton
Posts: 2889 - Karma: 13
tried it once, didnt work, apparently you have to have brand new boots...
Mar 1 2008 1:43PM
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JayDope
Posts: 6842 - Karma: 408
haha i never even thought this was possible, im gunna have to try it now
Mar 1 2008 1:44PM
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BvK
Posts: 868 - Karma: 11
we would get so many odd looks
Mar 1 2008 2:29PM
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j.bird
Posts: 6680 - Karma: 15
I"m pretty sure the toe piece of ski boots it's thinner than the heelpiece. I don't think they would fit.
Mar 1 2008 3:06PM
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atlanticjibba
Posts: 152 - Karma: 28
mine cant
Mar 1 2008 3:09PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7843 - Karma: 22,167
I can-t, cause the heel lugs on my foil boots are way thicker tha n the toes. My little brother can though and it's hilarious when he does. The park manager at my home hill (who snowboards) was telling us our skis were on backwards, making fun of twintips, so my brother put them on backwards and asked him if it was the right way.
Mar 1 2008 3:13PM
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artfullydodged
Posts: 8358 - Karma: 1,674
u gotta have the right boot/binding combo for it to work, i think it worked when i had markers..
Mar 1 2008 3:30PM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
never even thought of that. ill try this tomorrow.
Mar 1 2008 5:53PM
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-dAvE-
Posts: 677 - Karma: 74
cant :( but on my old skis i coudl and it was funnn!
Mar 1 2008 6:23PM
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zackblain
Posts: 2322 - Karma: 22
you shoulda went to boarding for boobs
Mar 1 2008 6:25PM
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LMPJibbin
Posts: 1607 - Karma: 17
thats pretty sick, ill probably try that tomorrow, must be somewhat harder to ski though, having more tip than tail...

Mar 1 2008 6:28PM
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white+wolf
Posts: 874 - Karma: 492
that was today?
Mar 1 2008 6:29PM
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zackblain
Posts: 2322 - Karma: 22
ya
Mar 1 2008 6:32PM
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Tucks
Posts: 2120 - Karma: 161
yea I discovered this for the first time the other day
Mar 1 2008 7:18PM
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zesty_buddy
Posts: 880 - Karma: 28

its fun and then people give you super weird looks

Mar 1 2008 7:24PM
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NicoChile
Posts: 690 - Karma: 199
i always do it... once i did it and also putted on my jacket backwards and my goggles backwards and my arms like to the other side and started skiing like if  i was going switch... some of the best switch skiing ever
Mar 1 2008 7:29PM
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T_orageskiier
Posts: 580 - Karma: 13
ha thats sweet lol never new it was possible i'm so gonna try it haha
Mar 1 2008 9:26PM
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Gnarshred
Posts: 5670 - Karma: 18
I saw a gaper do it once and it made me chuckle inside...
Mar 1 2008 9:52PM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161
i dont think that my bindings ca
Mar 1 2008 10:11PM
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TOAST.
Posts: 7513 - Karma: 36,471
i tried it the other day becasue i was bored and it didnt work it.
then my freind tried it and he could do it and he got all of the credit for it
Mar 1 2008 10:42PM
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StockedDan
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I have taught a ski lesson clipped in backwards, they were all first timers and were very confused. They all thought i was asking them to put theirs on backwards cos they were different to mine!
Mar 1 2008 10:56PM
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nkinsman10
Posts: 1088 - Karma: 45
wow def have to try this next time haha
Mar 1 2008 11:13PM
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skithedirt
Posts: 1759 - Karma: 382
ive done it before its so fun
Mar 1 2008 11:19PM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
I gotta try this.  What's it like skiing this way?
Mar 1 2008 11:43PM
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Pippin
Posts: 4846 - Karma: 661
put on my to do list
Mar 1 2008 11:53PM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71

word...it should be pretty easy with center mounted skis......hmm

Mar 2 2008 12:04AM
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ShredTheGnarnia
Posts: 2544 - Karma: 79
lange boots + rossi boner binders = no worky
Mar 2 2008 12:06AM
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~auddie~
Posts: 757 - Karma: 24
Im definitely trying this tomorrow when I go to teach
Mar 2 2008 12:09AM
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Avifarer
Posts: 5926 - Karma: 598
i dont think i can do it with sth's
Mar 2 2008 12:16AM
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masta_LE3B
Posts: 3397 - Karma: 62
iv tried but cant
Mar 2 2008 1:29AM
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iluvBread
Posts: 1519 - Karma: 38
didn't know it was possible...ahh i got to try it
Mar 2 2008 11:16AM
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CodyTurner
Posts: 677 - Karma: 86
never tried but i definelty am going to today
Mar 2 2008 11:38AM
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.makuma.
Posts: 2258 - Karma: 43
your right, but clearly they do it
Mar 2 2008 12:35PM
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RobotTom
Posts: 544 - Karma: 21
ive seshed a box with the backwards binding.
Mar 2 2008 1:28PM
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ButteredToast.
Posts: 6459 - Karma: 2,570
haha so this is where you got the idea.
Mar 2 2008 2:00PM
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kool.aid.man
Posts: 1416 - Karma: 526
i dont think you can do it with piston bindings. Regular ones though yes. i can do it with my fischer race bindings.
Mar 2 2008 2:02PM
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ShredTheGnarnia
Posts: 2544 - Karma: 79
neither do lange boots and salomon bindings.
or salomon boots and rossi bindings.

what combinations do work?!?!
Mar 2 2008 9:05PM
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BootySpunk.
Posts: 8148 - Karma: 84
i tried it today and got some weird ass looks haha
Mar 2 2008 9:06PM
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kickel
Posts: 242 - Karma: 10
Mine don't work but my friends do and the looks people give him are priceless.
Mar 2 2008 9:41PM
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SkiingLlama
Posts: 694 - Karma: 5
oh man. i got to try this!
Mar 2 2008 10:10PM
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lotsoffun
Posts: 278 - Karma: 15
haha, awesome
Mar 2 2008 10:17PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
does anyone ever go on newschoolers and just lie?
Mar 2 2008 10:41PM
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Literature
Posts: 13673 - Karma: 3,085
I tried it, but it won't work with my gear. Plus, the heel on my Langes is at least 2 times as thick as the toe.
Mar 2 2008 10:48PM
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lotsoffun
Posts: 278 - Karma: 15
it's the internet man, you know half the girls on this website are old guys with stock piles of roofies.
Mar 2 2008 10:54PM
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