Last season, I had a couple of unfortunate incidents with my Sick Day 110s.
In one of them, I was skating as fast as I could at A Basin from the top of the Zuma lift to the base of Zuma cornice. All of a sudden I double ejected. It was hilarious, but puzzling.
Then later that season, this happened at Loveland. In retrospect I questioned whether my binding misbehaved after I turned up the hill. Also, hilarious video.
After all of that, I really started wondering about my bindings, and I finally took them to Mountain Wave in Breck - they've been pretty helpful to me in the past. Sure enough - they said the forward pressure was too low, and the slidey plate thing (they didn't use those words) wasn't even in contact with the boot.
I have my theories about how all this happened. Part of it is my fault, because they are Marker bindings, and when I first got the skis back from getting adjusted for my new boots, I couldn't get my damn boot into the bindings. So my husband and I decided to loosen it by a click or two. But the slidey plate thing, we did not mess with that. My best guess is that whoever adjusted the binding didn't check for the height there (I didn't know that was even a thing).
That was the first time I've messed with my own bindings, and seems like the last, too.
I'll be interested in getting them out there this season - assuming, of course, that I can actually stomp my damn boot into the binding.
In one of them, I was skating as fast as I could at A Basin from the top of the Zuma lift to the base of Zuma cornice. All of a sudden I double ejected. It was hilarious, but puzzling.
Then later that season, this happened at Loveland. In retrospect I questioned whether my binding misbehaved after I turned up the hill. Also, hilarious video.
After all of that, I really started wondering about my bindings, and I finally took them to Mountain Wave in Breck - they've been pretty helpful to me in the past. Sure enough - they said the forward pressure was too low, and the slidey plate thing (they didn't use those words) wasn't even in contact with the boot.
I have my theories about how all this happened. Part of it is my fault, because they are Marker bindings, and when I first got the skis back from getting adjusted for my new boots, I couldn't get my damn boot into the bindings. So my husband and I decided to loosen it by a click or two. But the slidey plate thing, we did not mess with that. My best guess is that whoever adjusted the binding didn't check for the height there (I didn't know that was even a thing).
That was the first time I've messed with my own bindings, and seems like the last, too.
I'll be interested in getting them out there this season - assuming, of course, that I can actually stomp my damn boot into the binding.