@Than_Bogan, I certainly agree with what you said, their does have to be a balance between safety and comfort/rideability. I have certainly skied a lot of sets on various bindings, falling more than occasionally, and often spectacularly......and until last week without injury. My curiosity and the point of the poll, as @Gator1 understands, is to attempt to gather information about other possibilities, other peoples' experiences, and see if there is something I can try or look at that makes sense to me. I may change my set-up, I may not, I am just trying to evaluate the options. I would love to run an in depth poll and/or study controlling for every possible variable.......but I am not sure that is a realistic goal. The one thing that does seem apparent is that you can get hurt on any binding system you can currently buy. The ideal binding system would be comfortable, provide you the perfect amount of control, and always release when you wanted it to yet never release when you were riding the ragged edge, deep at a ball, etc.,and it would do this regardless of skill, experience, ability, or operator mis/use. If only I could invent that!