Din Settings?

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How tight are your bindings?

How heavy are you?

If you ride park, do you go big?

Once I started throwing tricks off big booters my skis were popping off way too many times, just because of the landing impacts. I decided to set my dins up from 9 to 12. They still come off if the crash is gnarly enough. But more importantly, they stay on in most cases. I use px18s and I'm ~160lbs.

I'm just wondering other people's preferences.

Do you believe riding my bindings so tight (at my weight) is a bad call?
 
I had my bindings re-mounted on new skis this year at REI (cheapest option). Put my height and weight (about 5'7" 150lbs) , lvl 3 skier, and they put me at a fucking 5 DIN. Let me repeat: FIVE DIN!!!

Honestly, I don't know too much about bindings, but they did do a torque test so I assumed they kind of knew what they were doing (I don't have the highest quality bindings, maybe the display was just off). However, the last few times I've been out, my skis have been coming off in the dumbest fucking ways (like landing, balanced, after dropping a relatively small 8-10 foot cliff). This past weekend, I did a normal stop, kind of aggressive, and hit a small chunk of ice. Both my skis ejected, and I flew down the hill like a retard at ~30 mph. On that cliff drop, I had hit a rock shallowly buried under the snow, which caused me to slam down on another, fucking up my hip.

That was the last straw I guess. I could have tightened them myself, but last time that happened, I snapped a tibia. Brought them into the pro shop or whatever you want to call it, and they basically doubled the DIN.

I'm not completely sure what the moral of the story here is... I guess don't get your shit done at REI? Yeah, I don't trust them.
 
I'm 5'11, 135 pounds and ski mostly park along with trees and some pow when I feel like it. I'd rather lose a ski landing hard than tear an cal so I go at 10. It works pretty well although I did have a gnarly fall in the Backcountry the other day and they didn't pop off so
 
13635212:steezkneez said:
Can you fuck off and stop quoting me in every thread
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Don't get your panties in a tangle. Just a coincidence that you happened to be quoted in my two most recent posts; a far cry from "every thread".
 
13635214:Deforestation said:
Don't get your panties in a tangle. Just a coincidence that you happened to be quoted in my two most recent posts; a far cry from "every thread".
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*the last two posts* my mistake. BMI says I'm "normal weight" too lol
 
13635185:steezkneez said:
I'm 5'11, 135 pounds and ski mostly park along with trees and some pow when I feel like it. I'd rather lose a ski landing hard than tear an cal so I go at 10. It works pretty well although I did have a gnarly fall in the Backcountry the other day and they didn't pop off so
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uhm. do you ride Jesters? otherwise 10 is pretty high for someone your weight who skis park.
 
13635274:VinnieF said:
uhm. do you ride Jesters? otherwise 10 is pretty high for someone your weight who skis park.
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Peak 18s. I like it a lot. I had one bad fall where they didn't come off. Otherwise I've never had a problem. FKS and Jesters both go to 18 and so do these so I don't think it's that bad
 
pretty damn high. ive had good experiences with them popping off at the correct moment and others where they didn't (RIP ankle). yes and no to your last question. I like my dins high because I want my skis to stay on for rough landings and charging hard but also get a bit worried because my FKS 180s are certainly the reason my right ankle is destroyed for ever now (released pretty late when my foot was tweaked real nice last year). take the good with the bad, I guess.

fuck ligaments, tho. I got some crazy dope bindings and all you need to do in skiing is look dope af.
 
I'm 6'2

183 lbs

bsl 302

din - just in 12.5

bindings - sth 2 16

seems to be the perfect setting for me. Comes off when I need them, they keep me in when I want to stay in
 
13635292:shin-bang said:
I'm 6'2

183 lbs

bsl 302

din - just in 12.5

bindings - sth 2 16

seems to be the perfect setting for me. Comes off when I need them, they keep me in when I want to stay in
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typo. Toes are at 12, heels are 12.5 ish
 
I ride big mountain and pow. Mainly 6-10m cliffs

Din setting can go from 9-13 depending on snow conditions and a variety of other factors

I weigh around 55kg (120lbs)

When i started i would go and hit cliffs with lower din setting and my skis would pop even in powder, so to be sure i started cranking it up tot eh 10/11 mark, and saw they stayed on even for bigger 8m cliffs. If i go higher than 8 i set the Din to 13 max just to be extra sure they don't come off. It's a very pesonal measuring tool really, it depends on how you feel safe riding. i know i can control my landing and everything very very well so i trust myself at higher DINs. Choose something that makes you confortable.
 
On my old bindings (marker 10 eps) I had to crank the Dins because on those a 10 is about a seven on a good pair of bindings. I got some Griffons and the shop put them at a 6. I'm 5'6" and 130 pounds. So far my skis have only fallen off when they should have.
 
13635175:Deforestation said:
I had my bindings re-mounted on new skis this year at REI (cheapest option). Put my height and weight (about 5'7" 150lbs) , lvl 3 skier, and they put me at a fucking 5 DIN. Let me repeat: FIVE DIN!!!

Honestly, I don't know too much about bindings, ...

I'm not completely sure what the moral of the story here is... I guess don't get your shit done at REI? Yeah, I don't trust them.
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It's very simple, you can plug your shit into a calculator and it spits out a number. 5-6 is the setting you should have for your weight and skier level. If you need your setting higher for park, you should have told them that.

FWIW, my skis have popped off one time the entire season so far set on 5, at 150 lbs. But I don't ski park. It's not the DIN setting, it's what you're doing to the ski.
 
On the topic of din settings, today was a pow day and I was havin a pretty good time rippin around. I was hitting some pillows and crushing through them when I made contact with something that obviously wasn't a pillow. I broke through part of it, but I ejected forward from my skis and fucked up my knee. If i had a higher din setting, would I have been able to continue punching through or would it have just made the crash more awkward?
 
13635625:csteezy said:
On the topic of din settings, today was a pow day and I was havin a pretty good time rippin around. I was hitting some pillows and crushing through them when I made contact with something that obviously wasn't a pillow. I broke through part of it, but I ejected forward from my skis and fucked up my knee. If i had a higher din setting, would I have been able to continue punching through or would it have just made the crash more awkward?
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impossible to say
 
13635579:dyyylan said:
It's very simple, you can plug your shit into a calculator and it spits out a number. 5-6 is the setting you should have for your weight and skier level. If you need your setting higher for park, you should have told them that.

FWIW, my skis have popped off one time the entire season so far set on 5, at 150 lbs. But I don't ski park. It's not the DIN setting, it's what you're doing to the ski.
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Ok, so I'm more inclined to trust a professional binding person than an online calculator, and every one I've put my stats in says at least 7. Full disclaimer: I don't ski a lot of park unless the rest of the mountain is shit.

Today was my first full day on the new settings (8) and they performed well. They popped off when I needed (fucked up a 3, fell off a rail), and stayed on when I wasn't in trouble.

As for your last paragraph, no shit. Obviously if your din is at 2 and your doing backies, they'll come off when you don't want. What's your point exactly??
 
13635579:dyyylan said:
It's very simple, you can plug your shit into a calculator and it spits out a number. 5-6 is the setting you should have for your weight and skier level.
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No it isn't. He should be somewhere between an 8.5 and a 6, depending on the length of his boot sole.
 
5'6"

130 pounds

bsl 297

i ride park 95% of the time and go as hard as my park allows

my dins are at 7 on fks 140s and i have no problems with releasing early or not releasing
 
5'9"

160 lbs

296mm

Toes 11. Heels 13 on Pivot 15 (mogul ski)

Toes 9.5, Heels 11 on Pivot 18 (pow ski)

Toes 9.5, Heels 11 on Pivot 14 (all mountain ski)

Toes 9.5 and Heels 9.5 on Axial 2 120 (park ski)

Toes 9.5 and Heels 9.5 on Tyrolia Bindings (carving ski)

I need to crank the dins up on my all mountain skis, but riding as a type 3+ seems to work fine in the park. I'm a fairly smooth park skier and usually am just hitting medium jumps and all of the rails these days.
 
Consider BSL as well if you guys don't.

I ski mine at 10, 5' 10", 190, 306 BSL.

If I know I'll be in big terrain where I'd rather blow my knee than prerelease I'll bump up to 12.

Don't ski park, I rarely pop out, but I don't crash very often.
 
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