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What's the BIGGEST trick you could land on a 1 DIN?
I don't think they'd take the sideways force of a rail, that's literally what they're made to release from the easiest. I bet they would take any size jump if you landed perfectly perpendicular to the landing so you weren't pulling up with either your toe or heel
ReturnToMonkeyI don't think they'd take the sideways force of a rail, that's literally what they're made to release from the easiest. I bet they would take any size jump if you landed perfectly perpendicular to the landing so you weren't pulling up with either your toe or heel
Land heel first and your ski is turning into a missile
You guys are thinking backward. I get that creativity can thrive under constraint, but with a non ejecting binding, your options are limitless. Why the hell would you wanna eject and fall? I seriously don't get it. Used to shred locked out tech bindings with a fixed heel but found even those eject so I just run threaded studs through my skis so I can bolt my boots down. Kind of annoying taking my skis off so I either carry a wireless drill bit with an 8mm socket or take my boots off and walk to the lodge in socks.
Gotta think. “Bigger” tricks often have slower movements. Massive 1 or 3? Those skis are rotating very slow. Same goes for the rotational acceleration. Probably a real gentle rotational acceleration at the start of the trick. If you land both perfectly to where landing wouldn’t affect bindings popping out, it would come down to how fast you start the spin. I think a floaty 3 on a 60 footer with a landing stomped to the bolts would hold your bindings, while a quick 7 on a lil side hit… skis would probably pop off cause there would be a good bit of stress on the bindings when the rotation starts.
BrandoComandoI could probably get off the chairlift
Im thinking mine would come off on the loading ramp and then I would THAT guy riding the lift without my skis then waiting up top for the next few chairs to bring me my skis.
Oh man we all took out kids ski boots and skis a couple years back and it was hilarious...
We had rental ski boots up to like, a size 27, so about 4 or 5 of us did a gaper day on kids skis just because it was funny.
The max din we could run on the 120 or 130 junior skis we took out was a 4.5 and we were coming out of our skis left and right. Like, I lost one just getting off the chairlift.
Just trying to butter caused us to immediately eject. It was fucking funny.
I ride 9 dons and my skis ejected probably twice on jumps. Considering I hit probably 1,000ish jumps this season, that’s 0.2% chance. Now we take that 0.2% chance and increase it 9 times (since a 1 din is 9x lower than my current din), and we get a 1.8% chance my skis will fail. That is probably a lower chance than me falling on the trick, so I will say that I could every single trick in my bag on 1 dons.
Farmville420I ride 9 dons and my skis ejected probably twice on jumps. Considering I hit probably 1,000ish jumps this season, that’s 0.2% chance. Now we take that 0.2% chance and increase it 9 times (since a 1 din is 9x lower than my current din), and we get a 1.8% chance my skis will fail. That is probably a lower chance than me falling on the trick, so I will say that I could every single trick in my bag on 1 dons.
I’m not the most knowledgeable about ski bindings but my math and skiing experiences are making me think that the relationship between force needed to release and the DIN setting is probably not linear. This concept did have me doing a bit of searching. I found this chart on Howell’s binding site (they are the guys trying to make a lateral release binding)
It only shows the pre-release forces for DINs of 4,5, and 6. Interesting concept though. Thanks for giving me something to think about.
ghoti_hookI’m not the most knowledgeable about ski bindings but my math and skiing experiences are making me think that the relationship between force needed to release and the DIN setting is probably not linear. This concept did have me doing a bit of searching. I found this chart on Howell’s binding site (they are the guys trying to make a lateral release binding)
It only shows the pre-release forces for DINs of 4,5, and 6. Interesting concept though. Thanks for giving me something to think about.
I was joking but this thread is definitely a good one, never actually thought about it deeply. Might do some actual research later, or crank my dons down for a day, either works
Farmville420I ride 9 dons and my skis ejected probably twice on jumps. Considering I hit probably 1,000ish jumps this season, that’s 0.2% chance. Now we take that 0.2% chance and increase it 9 times (since a 1 din is 9x lower than my current din), and we get a 1.8% chance my skis will fail. That is probably a lower chance than me falling on the trick, so I will say that I could every single trick in my bag on 1 dons.
I’ll give you $100 for every trick you land off a 20’ minimum set to a “1don”
Funny story this kind of happened to me once. I got brand new skis and bindings and was meeting up w a big group to ski park like as I was getting my shit from the shop for the first time so I was in a hurry. I pop my shit on flossing the all new gear I’m so hyped for my first run. Get to the first booter and go to hit the takeoff and just pretty much leave both my skis on the lip as I flail sail a 30 foot step down with no skis. I pole planted by accident on hitting the landing and punched myself in the face with my own fist/pole and start bleeding everywhere. Turns out the shop set my dins at like 5 so I was pretty much on a suicide mission out the gate.
Basically same thing happened to me but when I was a weeee lad, before the days of cranking them bitches to 14 on my own, picked up new skis for whatever reason they was on fucking 4, like u I was hyped bout the new gear, my first twin tips, I fucking send a 30 footer, nothing huge but top of my ability range at that moment, all a sudden I’m doing a running man mid air, I was consciously scared for my knees on landing , tried landing on two poles and two feet, sprained both wrists and took a pole to the stomache, it snapped and I kneeled on the basket as I fell, now every time I kneel it feels like there’s a piece of sand on my knee, hurts like fuck, and where are my skis this whole time? 1 on the jump, one 100 feet away
CaseyFunny story this kind of happened to me once. I got brand new skis and bindings and was meeting up w a big group to ski park like as I was getting my shit from the shop for the first time so I was in a hurry. I pop my shit on flossing the all new gear I’m so hyped for my first run. Get to the first booter and go to hit the takeoff and just pretty much leave both my skis on the lip as I flail sail a 30 foot step down with no skis. I pole planted by accident on hitting the landing and punched myself in the face with my own fist/pole and start bleeding everywhere. Turns out the shop set my dins at like 5 so I was pretty much on a suicide mission out the gate.
For the record I hope you do land em, I’d rather throw ya 500 and see some super smooth landings than see ya get hurt. They def need to be some super smooth landings to stay on the skis, if u keep 1 ski on, even if you come out the bindings, if you land and stay on top at least 1 ski I’ll give ya the win
I land tips first shins to tongues every time, and I’m smooth, but I could never land a 1 din, I don’t think I could get off the lift honestly
SavageBiff👋
I’ll be there for verification bud , you dm me any day and I’ll leave the basin and come film and notify the medical patrollers for ya
SavageBiffBasically same thing happened to me but when I was a weeee lad, before the days of cranking them bitches to 14 on my own, picked up new skis for whatever reason they was on fucking 4, like u I was hyped bout the new gear, my first twin tips, I fucking send a 30 footer, nothing huge but top of my ability range at that moment, all a sudden I’m doing a running man mid air, I was consciously scared for my knees on landing , tried landing on two poles and two feet, sprained both wrists and took a pole to the stomache, it snapped and I kneeled on the basket as I fell, now every time I kneel it feels like there’s a piece of sand on my knee, hurts like fuck, and where are my skis this whole time? 1 on the jump, one 100 feet away
Y'all both gotta learn to immediately drop polls when falling
