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Din setting

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Eliotmoose
Posts: 12 - Karma: 11
i ski park and im beginner to intermediate.i weigh about 130 pounds and im 5'8. Just wondering what din setting i should be using?
Thanks.
Apr 6 2011 8:33PM
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bibs_skibum
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 449
get some FKS 180s and crank them the entire way. Its the only way to be safe
Apr 6 2011 8:43PM
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spkillah
Posts: 515 - Karma: 86
Why don't you go to your local shop and they can help you out with that. its what they get paid to do
Apr 6 2011 8:49PM
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DBL
Posts: 1404 - Karma: 2,211
crank em to 9 or 10
Apr 6 2011 8:52PM
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stickerman
Posts: 2043 - Karma: 147
dont listen to the other guys. go to a shop. thats what they are there for.
Apr 6 2011 9:03PM
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Gstrong
Posts: 4776 - Karma: 519
look up din calculator in google
Apr 6 2011 9:11PM
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phreshpow
Posts: 834 - Karma: 133
Why did you post this??? go to your local shop, but if you are too poor to pay 5 bucks to not tear an ACL then http://tinyurl.com/3e48fwm
Apr 6 2011 9:13PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
DO NOT TOUCH YOUR BINDINGS

if you have to ask, take them to a shop, once again i will say it

DO NOT TOUCH YOUR BINDINGS
Apr 6 2011 9:46PM
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J.DUKE
Posts: 1233 - Karma: 38
get off NS
go directly to your local shop
do not pass go
do not collect $200
Apr 7 2011 12:45PM
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californiagrown
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1 below the max on your binding is always a safe choice
Apr 7 2011 1:12PM
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japanada
Posts: 13784 - Karma: 1,957
SHOP STOP FOR YOU!

More than weight and height go into figuring your din setting.
Apr 7 2011 2:31PM
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Freestyle_Online
Posts: 17 - Karma: 10
Please....Please do not ever try to set your own bindings un less you are a certified binding tech. Setting your bindings to the full setting or even 9 or 10 can and will cause you not to release when your supposed to. In return causing your knee to explode....no joke! Please take the bindings to the local ski shop and have them test and set. Being smart about your gear will mean more time on snow and less time in a hospital because you listen to some dude who told you to put them all the way up.

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Apr 7 2011 2:32PM
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monkatizer
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Apr 7 2011 8:19PM
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Score
Posts: 73 - Karma: 11
False.

Bindings now a days are made with that you can run the din at the lowest or highest setting and they will release when they are supposed to.
Apr 7 2011 9:10PM
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onenerdykid
Posts: 6656 - Karma: 10,859
1/2 true: you can run a binding at the lowest DIN setting but you can't run a binding fully at the high end. If the spring is fully compressed, it looses its elasticity and you will get weird release values.
Apr 8 2011 10:16AM
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sagaRIP
Posts: 287 - Karma: 12

I do think people are a little too edgy on the whole DIN issue. The guys in the shop dont do anything more in most cases than look at the chart and ask you a few questions. In all honesty setting them yourselves avoids the inevitable exaggeration of skill that happens in a lot of cases with people renting skis.

I'm 130lpb, 5'8" and a very agressive skiier. Unless my bindings are set at 7, i prerelease when stopping and sometimes in a particularly aggressive turn. If you take the time to read up on DIN settings, forward pressure and everything else that goes with it and can take a realistic view of your ability there is no reason that you HAVE to go to a shop.

Apr 8 2011 10:29AM
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californiagrown
Posts: 9794 - Karma: 2,014
the fact that he has no idea where his din has been in the past, and if he wants it higher or the same, means that he needs to go to a shop.

after you get your shit set up by a shop and ski on it for a while, you can start to fiddle with the settings to fit your liking.
Apr 8 2011 12:17PM
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shreddenator
Posts: 329 - Karma: 28
This is my philosophy about this much debated question: if you have to ask, then go to a shop.

Din is only one factor that can cause prerelease. At your weight & height and with that din, binding release while turning or stopping is most likely caused by insufficient forward pressure....or you are a 130lbs Seth Morrison....

Listen, you like to ski right? Your need your knees to ski. So quit messing around, it takes very little time, effort and a few coins to get the tech at the pro shop to make sure you are set up right, and then you can ski with minimum risk. Maybe the tech will let you watch while he sets you up, could be educational....

Check your gear azzybish$, I am 198lbs, 5'9" and a type III+ and I set my din at 9.


Apr 8 2011 12:38PM
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huge-go
Posts: 1451 - Karma: 33
With enough time in the mountains you'll figure out what works for you. If you don't know, just go with what the shop sets them at and adjust from there. You don't need to take them to a shop every time you get the DIN's turned up, because lets be honest, you can turn a screwdriver and look at a gauge to make sure it's lined up with the number you want. Just crank up 0.5 at a time until unnecessary release stops. I'm guessing your mountain has benches with screwdrivers set up at a few zones, so you can adjust them immediately after any prereleases happen on the mountain. If turning up the DIN's a few numbers doesn't solve your problems, then stop, because it probably isn't your DIN, but forward pressure. For this I would take it to a shop if you don't know bindings, because this is the most important thing to be set properly on your bindings. A binding set to 20 won't hold you in if the forward pressure is too loose.
Apr 8 2011 1:41PM
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