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Opinions on Marker Free 12?
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What are peoples thoughts on these?
Anyone ridden these as a park binding?
Cheers
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It's a good directional ski binding. Bad for newschool types though. The swing weight is all sortsa wrong. But if your staying grounded it's a decent binding.
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What do you mean by swing weight?
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Like there's more weight toward the tips than the tails. So a more evenly distributed weight like on the jesters would help you spin easier. I had a set of skis with the free12s and they caused me to under or over rotate depending on if I took off switch or not.
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Ah ok, sorry, kind of new to all this.
Just looking at them they really don't seem like there would be a noticeable difference in the weight of the toe piece and heel piece.
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marker bindings are garbage. invest in something worthwhile
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Had those bindings on my very first park skis and I never liked them.
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While that may have been true in 2005, Jesters and Griffons are both good bindings.
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Had them on my trainer pair of gs skis for skicross. Never had any issues, released when the should have, and lasted longer than the skis. But, idk how they would hold up in the park
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Yeah they were bombproof for sure and I had zero quality issues with them. But yes the toe pieces weigh more than the heel pieces. This isn't a big deal to a "traditional" skier. But if you like getting airborne and spinning, etc....this is not a good binding for you. The toes are so weighty that they even threw my spins off axis more than once. That's a bad thing if it isn't intended. Haha.
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Well seeing as I can't actually spin yet, it probably won't be a massive problem. I'll just learn how to deal with it. :)
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This is bad logic. I can tell you want them probably because they're cheaper and you were hoping to have people help solidify your decision. I can assure you they are the wrong choice. In fact the 2 seasons I had them I'm fairly certain I went backwards in skill progression because of them. What happened us that I did get used to compensating for them and once I got newschool type bindings I was still throwing my spins too hard and instead of under rotating would over rotate. It took a good season till I was back to feeling normal again. So you don't spin but do you do grabs? Shiftys? Do you try to ski switch? Swing weight will effect all these things. I would only recommend those bindings for a directional ski but being that your on a site called newschoolers I'm guessing your not going to put them on a directional ski. So save yourself the headache and invest in some bindings that better suit your needs.
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