"PG" wrote in message
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Easier, true, but apart from it being cheaper to get your own equipment,
it's a useful skill to acquire and I just reckon my skis are better
looked after that way. I feel pretty much the same way about the
bindings. In the Vietnamese opp the Bourg St Maurice station today there
was a lost-looking English bloke with a young kid in tow, leg in
plaster. They were in Val for the season, but early in Jan the lad had
taken a nasty fall, ending up with a bad fracture just below the knee.
The weight adjustment was fine, but not the toe/heel setting which was
too tight. Binding didn't release, lever effect, and "crack".... at 5
years old too, kids that age with their pliable bones usually get away
with it.

So as you say, ensuring the bindings are set correctly is crucial.



Ah, maybe I should have prefixed my statement with ensuring that you know
the shop's competence. In my case Adrian at Foppa Sport in Laax really does
know his stuff inside out and I would be wasting my time doing it myself.
But I understand you or anyone else wanting to do it themselves. I'm lazy if
the truth has to be told.

I know that a few years ago a person servicing skis somewhere round here had
just changed job. Previously she was a waitress and had *no* experience of
servicing skis. A few days of training and she was in charge :-(
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Simon Brown
www.hb9drv.ch