Testing Bindings

From my experiences at Tamworth, the rental bindings are big brand names with Demo tracks fitted, which makes them heavy but versatile. Trencher I'm not convinced that the forward pressure settings on that kit are any more crude than new bindings on the shelf of the ski shop in the same building.

Snapzzz, know your settings and choose to opt for a lower DIN when skiing indoors, and at low speeds. Typically I use 5.5, Hemel S&R set me at 4.5 when demo'ing last summer, I had no pre releases. I have problems with my local Swiss dealer who always wants to crank my DIN up to 7 :shock: I did ask why...apparently it's my weight. I'm not sure which chart they use, because the one linked to on this thread puts me on 4.5. Go figure :?:

I had a go using that DIN link, and I got 4.5, 5.5 and 6.5 according to whether I said I was skier type 1 (cautious), 2 (average), or 3 (aggressive higher speed skiing).

While skiing a few days ago I asked them to set the DIN for the skis to come off a bit more easily than usual because I wasn't very fit/flexible and they set it at 5.0. This seemed to work very well. The skis didn't come off when I hit piles of powder etc. but one did come off when I fell over.

Snapzz, I would agree with Bandit and if I was you I'd set them lower than usual when you're doing strange manoeuvres on the snow dome.

I never thought one could get hurt by having a DIN setting too low, but the other day someone cut his leg open doing fancy jumps in the snow park in Tignes because his ski came off in mid air and then he landed on it :shock:

Ally

Have a look at this site ........ my din setting came out at 8 and I normally set mine to 7.5
so it came out quite close.
http://www.dinsetting.com/