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Gtweaker

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ok my parents think 160 is 2 much for bindings how can i convince them that they r important and i need them...they r look px 12 jib's i told them its my money so y should they care any other things?
 
i work at harveys, and my parents dont care what i do with my money. they say i work for it, and its mine. haha, i came home with 2 pairs of Billabong pants, buth 199$, but im returning them because they dont look to snazzy wit my jacket..
 
Tell them it's for your safety. My brother did it. It worked.

Tell them your "extreme" sport requires high end equipment, and if it not good quality, they could deteriorate gradually and then snap during a high-speed aerial maneuver, sending you into a high speed slide to your death.
 
i mean try to look for the BEST deal, if you get a good deal you can spend the 60 bucks you earned on something else, like maybe poles, helmet, or some clothes or something.
 
if ur parents are clueless about skiing you can always say taht that is a great deal and if u dont buy them soon u'll end up spending more
 
this is one argument you should have no problem winning witht he safety aspect. skiings a gret way to blow your knees and these bindings help so much with that. show them how they work and how theyll save you a knee and save them an arm and a leg
 
yea the safety thing works well thats how i was able to buy my last pair of expensive bindigns just say u want to feel safe on the hill or sumthing

 
thats pretty much what i told my mom, except she skis sometimes too, so she already knew i need good bindings, so it wasnt as hard for me

im sure you could find a few bindings cheaper then that, but if you dont just tell them its for your safety
 
im in the same situation, im just gonna wait until it gets really close to the season starting and then ill be like mom/dad i need bindings really quick then ill order them. or ill just make some $$$ and buy them myself
 
bindings are the most important link in skiing. skis are skis and vary greatly on prupose, boots are important, but are mostly tailored towards comfort. bindings are the attatchment. if the attatchment is bad, then you are putting yourself at risk (pre relaseses, failed releases, etc). No brand of binding is made the same in terms of how they function and when (save look/rossi, fischer/tyrolia, but you get the idea), so there are options. No binding is going to fully prevent injury, not every binding will last forever, but some are better than others. When skiing park, there seems to be a more distinct line when it comes to safety and durability; salomon makes a decent binding (s916 is durable and reliable, yet expensive), but look/rossi consistently make a safer consumer binding (due to the elasticity, consistency, and best toe and heel design) for freeskiing, and it is durable. Once again, anything can happen with any binding, but some are better than others. What is worse: spending $160 on bindings or enduring 6 months of physical therapy because the inexpensive binding didn't release on a backward-twisting fall (which you are more prone to in the park)? A bit out there, but yea
 
suddenly I am real glad my parents arnt the ones that hold my wallet. Then again at my age if they did it would be kinda weird.

Go with the old "I need a higher performance equipment because I do extream sports and dont want to have to have knee surgery because I had inadiquent equipment because you wouldnt let me get something that only costs 120 bucks but now were paying thousands so that I dont have to walk with a cane"

 
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