Thank you! I wish I had known that you could adjust binding torque earlier. I almost had a bad knee injury because one of my skis failed to release during a fall!
First, big warning - I found several stories online about how people hurt themselves doing this test. >You must control your stretch. The goal is to pop out before your leg feels pain. DON'T DO THIS - but it is funny ruclips.net/video/Ha8eWLgiqIk/видео.html >Don't fall/slip during the stretch >Have boots on both feet. Someone broke their toe doing this check when they popped out of the binding, and the foot without a booth got stepped on. Thank you - great video - Last year, I went down in an easy fall and was out the rest of the day due to the "correct" set DIN pulled so hard before my ski came off. I used it this weekend, and it showed my "correct" din setting of 5 set by the rental place hurts more than I want before it releases. The rental place wouldn't change it, but I changed it to 3 while on the slopes. This opens me up to the ski falling off during normal use. I skied all day without issue. Yes, at 53, I am a conservative skier now, but it's fun to ski with my sons.
I work at a ski shop in the high Rockies. I had a older man come in that tore his knee from doing exactly this. If someone does not know their skiier code or the binding happens to test above the tolerance values that they are supposed to release at, this could result in injury..
So loved this video. Tore my acl skiing. I think my bindings were too tight. Keen to test them every day i go skiing next time. Plus carry a screwdriver on the slopes so I can adjust if need be so for test I think I need to do left then right twisting to try to release front. A lunge forward to try to release back. Is that correct?
Do bear in mind Julie that conventional bindings sadly are not designed to have a release mode - irrespective of din setting - for the common injurious loads that cause acl damage - if you google knee binding and Rick Howell who is a ski binding designer - you will find a lot out there on this topic. It’s very frustrating in regards being able to find bindings to offer some acl protection by way of design. I hope you have managed to recover ok.
This is NOT a proper ski binding test. This doesn't quantify the results in any meaningful way. Please take your bindings to a shop and have them do it for you.
And don't hold a screwdriver while testing forward release.
Was waiting for your knee to snap.
Thank you! I wish I had known that you could adjust binding torque earlier. I almost had a bad knee injury because one of my skis failed to release during a fall!
First, big warning - I found several stories online about how people hurt themselves doing this test.
>You must control your stretch. The goal is to pop out before your leg feels pain.
DON'T DO THIS - but it is funny
ruclips.net/video/Ha8eWLgiqIk/видео.html
>Don't fall/slip during the stretch
>Have boots on both feet. Someone broke their toe doing this check when they popped out of the binding, and the foot without a booth got stepped on.
Thank you - great video - Last year, I went down in an easy fall and was out the rest of the day due to the "correct" set DIN pulled so hard before my ski came off.
I used it this weekend, and it showed my "correct" din setting of 5 set by the rental place hurts more than I want before it releases. The rental place wouldn't change it, but I changed it to 3 while on the slopes. This opens me up to the ski falling off during normal use. I skied all day without issue. Yes, at 53, I am a conservative skier now, but it's fun to ski with my sons.
Is this supposed to work with high din settings?
I work at a ski shop in the high Rockies. I had a older man come in that tore his knee from doing exactly this. If someone does not know their skiier code or the binding happens to test above the tolerance values that they are supposed to release at, this could result in injury..
Hurt my knee watching lol
Thanks for the warning, I'll try to use a 2x4 or something instead of my leg
This test is completely useless without any measurable values.
So loved this video. Tore my acl skiing. I think my bindings were too tight. Keen to test them every day i go skiing next time. Plus carry a screwdriver on the slopes so I can adjust if need be so for test I think I need to do left then right twisting to try to release front. A lunge forward to try to release back. Is that correct?
Do bear in mind Julie that conventional bindings sadly are not designed to have a release mode - irrespective of din setting - for the common injurious loads that cause acl damage - if you google knee binding and Rick Howell who is a ski binding designer - you will find a lot out there on this topic. It’s very frustrating in regards being able to find bindings to offer some acl protection by way of design. I hope you have managed to recover ok.
This is NOT a proper ski binding test. This doesn't quantify the results in any meaningful way. Please take your bindings to a shop and have them do it for you.
A completely worthless test. Check DIN at a certified shop with a certified tester not subjectively by doing this test.