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jacob
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Hi everybody!
I stumbled across this page a few days ago and have a question about bindings. I am fairly new to skiing and the equipment involved and I apologize if this question has come up before.
OK, I have been skiing about a dozen times...all on rental or borrowed skis. I just bought some used skis/bindings/boots and am gearing up to hit the snow. The boots didn't fit in the bindings, so I adjusted the toe and heel portion so that the center line of the boot was as close as I could get it to the center line of the skis (boots are forward by about 2mm). Then I found a DIN setting guideline and dialed the skis in to a conservative number for my height and weight. I set all 4 locations at 6.0 ( I am 6'-1" 175lbs). My question is this...is it safe for one to dial in one's DIN setting? Now I don't have a machine that can check the retention force of the bindings, so I set it conservative until I can test them on the snow. I'm from Michigan, so the ski "mountains" around here don't get that big (570' drops!). I don't plan on doing any jumps or moguls or anything like that, just nice easy downhill skiing. From what I've been reading on here and other sites...people almost always recommend against adjusting the DIN setting on your own. That it takes a skilled technician with weeks of training to do it properly. If that is the case, why are the bindings so easy to adjust? I mean all it takes is a pull of a lever here, a push of a button here, and a simple twist of a screwdriver. It takes the people at the ski rental all of 2 minutes to do this. To me, the ease of adjusting the bindings suggests that it can and should be dialed in by the skier him/herself. Can anybody convince me why it is or isn't safe to adjust your own bindings? I'll be the one that will know whether my ski popped off when it shouldn't, or stayed on when it should have popped off. So as long as I make small incremental adjustments, I don't see how this is dangerous??
Please help an ignorant skier.
I stumbled across this page a few days ago and have a question about bindings. I am fairly new to skiing and the equipment involved and I apologize if this question has come up before.
OK, I have been skiing about a dozen times...all on rental or borrowed skis. I just bought some used skis/bindings/boots and am gearing up to hit the snow. The boots didn't fit in the bindings, so I adjusted the toe and heel portion so that the center line of the boot was as close as I could get it to the center line of the skis (boots are forward by about 2mm). Then I found a DIN setting guideline and dialed the skis in to a conservative number for my height and weight. I set all 4 locations at 6.0 ( I am 6'-1" 175lbs). My question is this...is it safe for one to dial in one's DIN setting? Now I don't have a machine that can check the retention force of the bindings, so I set it conservative until I can test them on the snow. I'm from Michigan, so the ski "mountains" around here don't get that big (570' drops!). I don't plan on doing any jumps or moguls or anything like that, just nice easy downhill skiing. From what I've been reading on here and other sites...people almost always recommend against adjusting the DIN setting on your own. That it takes a skilled technician with weeks of training to do it properly. If that is the case, why are the bindings so easy to adjust? I mean all it takes is a pull of a lever here, a push of a button here, and a simple twist of a screwdriver. It takes the people at the ski rental all of 2 minutes to do this. To me, the ease of adjusting the bindings suggests that it can and should be dialed in by the skier him/herself. Can anybody convince me why it is or isn't safe to adjust your own bindings? I'll be the one that will know whether my ski popped off when it shouldn't, or stayed on when it should have popped off. So as long as I make small incremental adjustments, I don't see how this is dangerous??
Please help an ignorant skier.