Tweaked binding

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TDpeak

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I was riding down a pretty steep slope of soft snow the other night carrying a fair bit of speed when my left ski hooked on a buried bent over tree tip and sent me flying. After ragdolling for a little while I got up and when I tried to put on my left binding, I found that the entire wing section of the toe piece had twisted a full 90 degrees and gotten stuck there. I had to ski down on one ski to get something I could use to hammer it back into place. Once I got it back into place I was able to click into it no problem, and I rode them down the last run to the lodge and nothing bad happened. My concern is that I have been skiing since I was 5, and have never seen a binding get this far tweaked out. Could this have damaged the binding in some way?

Thanks. oh yeah the bindings are px14's
 
They are supposed to do this. You could have just kicked it into place on the mountain. I laugh everytime someone brings a look toe in and its twisted. Its not broken, its designed to do this.
 
Yeah, it happens to me all the time, I just stomp the hell out of it and it pops back into place - it also helps relieve frustration.
 
kicking your gear back into place might not be the most graceful solution to the problem but it can work. I realize that not everyone carries tools around, but if you had a shorty screwdriver you could wind the DIN spring down and make it a lot easier to get back into place.
 
Thanks for the help guys, I know they are supposed to twist like that but I had just never gotten one stuck like that so I was a little concerned. And I did hammer it back into place once I got to harder snow, at the site of the crash the snow was too soft to stand so I couldn't really kick it very easily.

Thanks
 
haha, no I should have said deep, you put a foot down and you posthole to your crotch. I wasn't very far from crossing a groomed trail so i just skied down on the one ski so it would be easier to pound it back into place.
 
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