Binding adjustment

[Wish]

Ok, simple questions: Moving the bindings forward makes the ski.....? Moving the bindings back makes the ski.......??

[colo_skier]

See this thread http://www.ballofspray.com/vanilla2/index.php?p=/discussion/2333/binding-position-question#Item_16

[Wish]

Colo. Good thread to read but I was looking for general thoughts and not specifically a front directional move of the binding. Thanks for the thread though. Learned something new from it and that's always good.

[Dirt]

I was told that when you move the binding back the ski acts like a smaller ski and when you move it forward, it acts like a longer ski. The distance between the fin and the binding has changed. I am not sure if this is correct.

[Jim Neely]

Moving the bindings forward is similar to adding tip. Moving the bindings back is similar to removing tip.

 

[Bud Man]

@Wish

Not necessarily a simple answer. Some people will move their binding back to get their weight back. I have ridden skies where I had too much weight on the back and fixed it by moving my bindings back. My feeling was that I wanted to be balanced and I felt that with a normal stacked stance, I was too much on the front of the ski so I was instinctively getting on the back. Once I moved the bindings back, I could stand stacked and feel balanced. That is probably the opisit move from others but it worked great for me.

 

You first have to figure out what and why.

Grasshopper, you need to know the true problem to get to the right answer.