Will the DIN be too low?

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IT DEPENDS HOW HARD YOU RIDE/FEATURES YOU HIT AND YOUR SKILL LEVEL

i ski almost every day, hit about 60% rails and jibs and 40% jumps. i ride pretty hard, AWALLACE DONT FUCK AROUND.

my salomons are set at the highest (12) and they still fly off when i try to nosebuddah

There probably not set up correctly foward pressure wise. You would be amazed how many people have STH's set up completly wrong, even some pros skis I have worked on had teh foward pressure completly wrong. At 12 you should not be popping out as you dont weigh that much.

What is your BSL? thats a big deal in DIN setting.

9 din junior plastic bindings on someone your size would be down right retarded. Just because you might not ride at 9, doesn't mean the bindings aren't complete shit. those are not designed for the abuse that park riding puts on your gear. Get new bindings

get some new bindings, those will just break.

What's your BSL, and what type of skier are you (I, II, III)?

all of you asking about BSL, this isn't about din, this is about sheer lack of durability for the kind of riding he will be doing. Din is not important here. you are 150lbs and over 6ft, you SHOULD NOT be on a junior binding.

where did he say it was a Junior binding?

well he said they were on his skis when he was 12 or 13 so you would prsume it was a juniour binding. You cant sell adult stuff to anyone under 14 so chances are there a joniur binding.

you obviously don't know very much about bindings

How to find out if your binding has enough of a DIN range for you: go to your local shop and have them calculate your DIN for you based on your BSL, skier type, height, weight, & age and then see if fits on the scale of your binding.

If you end up being a 9 and your binding goes to 9, you need to get a new binding as you never want to ride at or very close to the max of the DIN range. When you fully compress the DIN spring, it looses its elasticity and will cause irregular release values.

Did YOU set it there, or did a shop tech do it? Cause that seems pretty unsafe. DIN is NOT the reason for pre-releasing 90% of the time, so you're riding at a potentially dangerous high DIN for no reason (proof is that they STILL come off...do you really thing a binding set at 12 would pre-release that easy?). You should check the forward pressure, and since they're Salomons (I'm assuming STH wing series for some reason) check the lift in the front. It could also be your boot, if you tend to walk around on concrete with your boots a lot you might have worn out the soul, which is why they don't stay in, if you have STHs you might be able to adjust the toe piece so it fits, otherwise, it's time for new boots.


HOWEVER, I agree with Thomas (Balto) here, there is absolutely NO reason for someone of your size to be riding on a binding built for a child, especially in the park, you WILL make them shatter, then be pissed off, have to buy new bindings, put new holes in your skis, and not to mention possibly loosing a day of skiing.


Do yourself a favor, don't cheap out, find a way to get some extra cash, buy some at least halfway descent bindings (if you can, just go all out and buy really nice bindings that will last you forever). Also, have a shop tech do a binding test and adjust those Salomons, cause I'm pretty sure they're at an unsafe DIN level, and if they're a good shop, they'll fix the problem.