2021 Ski Binding Comparison with SkiEssentials.com

hi skiers i'm jeff from ski essentials dot com welcome to our first ever binding comparison i think this is going to be a lot of fun this is something that you guys have been asking about for a while we've really wanted to get to it and finally here we are i don't even know how many bindings are in front of me but a lot and what we're going to do is we're going to run through them to from the bindings over here on your left to the bindings over here on your right and pretty much just talk about kind of some highlighting features of each one of them what type of skiers each binding is going to be best for what we won't really be doing is going super in depth about like the engineering the technology like why you know ramp angles stuff like that um we won't be going super technical my concern if we did go really technical is this by this video would end up being like four hours long or something ridiculous so as we're going through these bindings maybe make a note to yourself if there's one that you want to learn more about or if you have a specific question about a binding up here that we don't cover um drop it in the comments if there's something that you want us to do like a longer in-depth review of um drop that in the comments as well we are planning on doing some more in-depth binding reviews where we would have more time to go into you know all the specific materials used all the technology and stuff like that this is more intended to be a guide for somebody who's kind of unsure about selecting a binding and hopefully this gives you gives you a sense of what among these bindings would work for you what might not be enough binding what may be a little bit too much binding et cetera et cetera et cetera so keep that in mind if you have any questions let us know or if you want to know if you would like to see us do like a deeper dive into one of these bindings a couple of them we have already most of them we have not so that said before we start let's just kind of talk about a few things in general before you're selecting a pair of bindings i think it's it's pretty important to do kind of a cell self-assessment period um there is a big chunk of these bindings that is going to be really appropriate for like i'd say 80 to even 90 percent of skiers out there and then as we move up you know kind of like the second half of this video roughly those bindings realistically are intended and designed more for like 10 to 20 percent of all skiers in the world and in some situations less so choosing a binding is kind of a tricky thing it's somewhat like choosing a ski but you can kind of do yourself a disservice by getting a binding that for example is maybe too heavy for you or you might not even fall into the din range of a more expensive binding so it's not exactly like shopping for like a mountain bike where the more money you spend the better your experience is going to be like flat out across the board it's not as simple with bindings you can't just any skier in the world can't just buy the most expensive binding thinking that they're going to get the best performance for them so self-assessment is really important you should at least be aware of where your din setting is or or a range of of where you like your din setting to fall if you're not sure about that stuff check with a local shop give us a call you can even like just leave a comment with your stats and i'll let you know where your din falls so i think that's all the information that i wanted to get out before we jump into the bindings themselves i did leave myself some notes on weights and stuff like that because i did not think i would be able to remember the weights of all these skis so if you see me checking the the floor over there i'm just checking weights so that said uh let's get right into it these four bindings over here to my right are really good bindings for lighter weight skiers less aggressive skiers a lot of women choose these bindings a lot of like teenagers choose these bindings i coach part-time like youth freestyle and freeride programs a lot of the kids as they're kind of growing up through the tween and young teenage years they often choose these bindings as well so over here this is the marker 10.0 tp this is the least expensive binding we have up here it's 129. really really lightweight performance it's 1518 grams so the lightest binding we have up here just by a little bit and pretty simplistic design you know it's not it's a it's a three to ten din range there's not much metal used in this binding pretty similar toe piece to what we see in like some marker royal family bindings but a little bit different and a great binding if you're not super demanding on your equipment you're not skiing super aggressively you just want something affordable and lightweight the next binding that we're going to talk about is the attack 11 from tyrolia which is very very similar to that that 10.0 tp over there this does jump up to an 11 din range and it is a slightly stronger binding it's a little heavier the stat that i have written down is 1 50 50 grams but i'm pretty i'm 100 sure that's without the break so it is heavier than that 10.0 tp but a really really good binding for a similar skier but somebody who maybe is like the next step up in either your size either you're an adult like a full-grown adult and you want a slightly stronger binding or somebody who's a little bit more aggressive what's really cool about the attacks in general is they have really low stand height and they're also really wide so i'll use the toe piece as an example that's how much you're getting picked up off the ski i think it's like 17 millimeters total which is really really low you don't get too much lower than that in in any binding so low stand height and a really wide platform which works really well on wider skis so if you're kind of in that lighter intermediate range you know you don't need a super burly binding but you have a wider ski and you want a really good binding for that ski that attack 11 is really cool now next binding is the marker squire marker square has been around for a really long time and in a lot of ways it's very very similar to that attack 11. a little bit lighter here at just 1530 grams that's including the break it is like kind of i think the highlight of the squire is how light it is um now i also think this is kind of like the easiest to outgrow this is a binding that i see a lot of the kids i coach use and then a lot of lighter weight women and i think as soon as you get into like the 140 150 pound range even if you're not super aggressive it might be better bumping up to the griffin which we're going to talk about shortly so that that said this is a really good binding for a lighter weight skier who wants to keep their whole equipment package as light as they can and similar you know similar stand height to the attack a little bit taller i don't think a ton of skiers are going to notice the difference in stand height when you're at this level and you're at this kind of ability level of skier you probably won't notice a huge difference in stand height between something like the attack and the squire but it is worth noting but kind of a step up in performance from that 10.0 tp the square is up to 189 that attack was at 169. so we're stepping up in price and we're also stepping up in functionality and overall performance and then this warden 11 to me this is kind of another step up we're still in that 11 din range and it's not necessarily that this binding would always outperform those bindings but it's a little heavier this warden is coming in at 1860 grams so a little bit heavier and i do feel like this toe piece has some benefits so you know maybe you're a little bit above that weight range that i described for the squire which i'm being more conservative than marker marker would put their weight range i think up to like a 200 pound skier but i'm not sure that's the best choice i do think a heavier skier can use this warden 11 really good binding again the same as all of these bindings that we're starting with relatively intermediate level skier but then like an advanced lady could use this my girlfriend skis this binding and she loves it and something that's really cool about these bindings that's not true all the way through is that they're multi-norm compatible so you can use this binding with a touring sole pretty much uh every well the 10.0 tp and the attack those will take an alpine sole and a grip walk sole the squire the the newest version of the squire will take a touring sole as well but something to keep in mind if you're choosing these bindings if you have a rockered touring sole you have limited options among this group but overall this table right here really good for lighter weight skiers less aggressive skiers a lot of women choose these bindings a lot of teenagers i put plenty of younger athletes on very similar bindings to over here and they work really really well now the next kind of grouping of bindings that we're going to look at which really includes four four arguably five bindings to me we're really getting into the bread and butter of ski bindings in general these next two in particular we sell more of these than any other binding at ski essentials i'm pretty darn sure these are the two best-selling bindings on the market although don't quote me on that because i could be wrong but between these four bindings and the next four or five bindings that we're going to look at to me that does cover the vast majority of skiers that's what i'm talking about when i say like 80 to 90 percent of skiers these are plenty of binding and that first one that i want to talk about is the tyrolia attack 13. so a little bit of a step up from the attack 11 to this attack 13. most notably in the heel piece this has the nx fr heal as opposed to the sxfr heal in the 11. so a little stronger spring a little bit just stronger housing in general but the weight goes up too so we're moving into the 2 000 plus gram range for pretty much the rest of these bindings until we get over here to the left but yeah this attack 13 is is 2070 grams which is relatively light and and just provides like really good performance for a huge majority of skiers like i said to start there's there's not many p skiers they're going to going to push this past its limits and everything that i was saying about the attack 11 kind of carries over to this attack 13 as well so really really low stand height and a nice wide platform i love the way that these bindings feel on wider skis there is something to be said about like power transmission from a wider platform like this to a wider ski and i personally am somebody who likes to have kind of the lowest stand height possible and that is something that the attack achieves really nicely now the next binding is the marker griffin which this thing is a classic it's been around for a really long time between the attack 13 and the griffin i probably sound like a broken record but we're covering a huge range in skiers here you see these bindings on more of our packages the ski and binding combination packages on our site than anything else they're affordable that attack 13 is 199 the the griffin we bump up to 229 but really good all mountain binding very very versatile pretty wide not as wide as the attack but pretty wide a reasonable stand height this one will now take a touring sole which is pretty darn cool and it's just it's a proven binding now something that's kind of interesting about the attack versus the griffin is the heel piece um this is a single pivot heel piece which has actually been updated the whole griffin and the gesture has been updated for 2021 so single pivot heel piece what this does is it's positioning the spring vertically like a downward motion onto your heel piece some skiers really really like that feel and there's also more elastic travel in the heel piece of the marker compared to the attack so if you're the type of person that gets kind of nitty gritty details about elastic travel and stuff like that the the marker heel piece is pretty darn good and it's similar to what we're gonna see in some other options the downside to this heel piece and it's something that marker has improved for 2021 but it still is a difference they're harder to click into which seems like a kind of trivial difference but there are situations like if you're in really deep soft snow where traditionally the griffin has been kind of tricky to click into especially if you're at a higher din so different feel in those heel pieces although the resulting performance is pretty darn similar next binding we're going to look at is the warden 13. so like we talked about the about the warden 11 really the same differences between you know something like the squire and the attack 11 and the warden 11 between the attack 13 the griffin and this binding so a slightly higher stand height multi-norm compatible this heel piece is more similar to what we see from tyrolia the toe piece is kind of a it's similar to what we see in the sth series the solomon sth series which regrettably is the only binding that we didn't have in stock that i really wanted to include in this comparison you get a good amount of elastic travel out of these wings and yeah if i didn't already say it multi-norm compatible so warden's a great option if you're looking for something that'll work with a a rockered touring sole new griffin as well and that warden jumps up to two 269 so a bit of a jump up in price there but it's a really cool binding and it's it's got that toe piece in particular has a really solid feel the way that the wings kind of wrap around you a little more than most toe pieces not quite as much as an sth which is arguably one of the coolest toe pieces out there but but yeah pretty darn good next binding is the look spx-12 i really like this binding a big fan of look bindings in general this heel piece is very very similar to what we just saw in the the griffin there's a lot of elastic travel in here this toe piece is pretty cool because it's got 180 degrees of release there's vertical release in this which is is kind of unique um these these wings act independently from each other in in different in a different way than say i guess really any of the toe pieces that we've looked at so far because the wings are basically the entire connectivity to your boot the release is a little different and that's something that's that's you know i think look is proud of is is their their release ability out of the toe and yeah really i know just you know like i said about those last three bindings really good option for a wide wide range of skiers i personally kind of like the way that look bindings feel a little bit lower profile in a lot of sense which we're going to talk about when we get to these but realistically among those last four bindings it's kind of personal preference it's pretty you know i've skied all of those bindings back to back a lot of those bindings are used as demo bindings they have a demo and adjustable demo version of them so when we're out testing skis chances are we're on a binding like that and truth be told i don't notice a drastic difference among them they all feel really solid i can ski them pretty darn aggressively and not worry about about releasing anything like that now moving on this next binding is the attack 14 at which we've talked about compatibility with rockered touring souls if you want an attack and you have a rockered touring soul you kind of need to get this attack 1480 it's just a little the design is a little bit different this tow height is adjustable which is kind of required when you're going to be compatible with a rocker touring sole so that makes the stand height a little bit higher on this binding and the price goes up a little bit as well to 249 so realistically they're basically exactly the same as the attack 13 but i think it's a valuable one to have in this video because it has touring soul compatibility so that said that kind of concludes what i think is the the bulk of the binding market that covers a huge range of skiers when i'm riding the lift looking down at the skiers below me ninety percent of those people i would feel a hundred percent confident putting on any one of those bindings you know depending on weight and stuff like that but realistically if you're shopping for an all-mountain ski and you're shopping for a binding to go with it that's probably where you should start now if you're a more aggressive skier if you're more demanding on your equipment if you've had issues with those bindings like realistically that you shouldn't have issues with those bindings but there are situations where somebody will push them past their limits um or maybe you're not actually going to push them to that threshold of not being safe but you don't even want to have to worry about that that's also a perfectly reasonable perfectly reasonable thing to or thing to think about and then move up to like kind of the next range in bindings and to start that next range and bindings i'd like to talk about the jester first so take everything that we said about the griffin um this binding is basically exactly the same so where's the griffin these toe pieces are pretty much identical design you know they're they're the same exact shape same thing with the heel pieces these heel pieces are the same now the difference here is that you get a stronger spring so you get a higher din range you get a 6 to 16 din range in the gesture and you also get different materials and that's kind of that's kind of the big thing when you're jumping up from that 13 din range to anything above that is the materials used in the binding are going to be stronger so take these wings that hold the heel piece onto the the track basically which we don't have with us right now but these four wings all kind of attach to the track that the heel piece sits on these wings are magnesium the wings in the griffon are plastic now magnesium is obviously stronger than plastic and i think while we're right here we can talk about the jester pro too because it's basically the same binding you just jump up to 8 to 18. so magnesium is stronger than plastic now that said the weight is different so the jester jumps up to 2140 grams where the griffin is 2040. so you go up a significant amount in weight you know even just holding these two toe pieces or these two heel pieces this feels heavier so that's kind of where where i was going at the beginning of this video when i talked about the fact that like you can't just spend more money on bindings and get something that's more appropriate to you if you're a skier that has no risk whatsoever of potentially breaking this heel piece then there's no point in having a heavier binding i feel pretty strongly about that which it goes back to that kind of self-assessment thing is you have to think about yourself as a skier and what you need and whether it's worth getting a heavier binding to kind of achieve that this is the attack 16 same story you know everything that we said about the attack 13 holds true to this 16. the design is basically the same twin cam heel piece you know the spring is is positioned on the same axis and all that it's the same design toe piece the difference is there's more metal in this binding housing it's a little bit more trustworthy if you're doing crazy things on skis i was a competitive slope style athlete for a long time i used the attack 16 for many years i used the jester pro for many years i used the pivot 18 for many years in situations like that i did not want to have to worry about a binding failing like a hundred percent failing from like landing switch on like an 80-foot park jump or something like that but these are really specific applications so going back to that self-assessment take a moment to kind of think about yourself as a skier and whether you need that stuff this binding right here this is the marker x-comp race 18 really cool binding pretty much the same as the xl that we've been getting for years and years and years this one i thought was interesting to throw in here because it's really heavy it's 2600 grams and it's actually designed for a more specific application than a lot of these other bindings this is more intended for a race ski which is part of the reason why it's so heavy 2 600 grams is heavy but when you are on a race ski or a dedicated carving ski weight isn't like a huge issue so you can kind of justify going with a slightly heavier binding you know you're not worried about like quickness about like smearing or pivoting quickness you're less concerned about how fatiguing something is because you don't have to like do quick quick maneuvering movements that's a really cool binding but yeah that weight is is is noticeable and then this also jumps up to 309 uh let's see adjusters at 359 we kind of glossed over this jester pro is at 429. attack 16 is at 349. so similar range in prices there you might like be you know you might be looking in a higher higher end binding and you might be like tempted by something like this but keep in mind that it's heavier and it's designed more for a specific thing all right and that moves us through most of the bindings here kind of leaving some pretty cool ones to end with um the first being this look pivot 14. now in the pivot 14 we're going to kind of group these two bindings together but let's start with the 14. you basically get the same toe piece as the spx so you get those same wings that we talked about that kind of act independently of each other but come together to form the entire toe piece you get the same 180 degrees of release out of the toe now this heel piece is quite a bit different and you'll see people talking about this heel piece you'll see this heel piece on snow a lot if you looked at the posts we did yesterday somebody said like this is the best binding you can forget about everything else you will see a lot of that and there are reasons why but as with everything it's that self-assessment that you have to go back to and is this right for you that's something that you have to decide is a pivot the best choice for every skier out there absolutely not i i think that's fair and safe to say i'll kind of use my girlfriend as an example again i don't think i would put her on a pivot there's some user friendliness to it that's can be more challenging for some skiers there are performance benefits to it that not everyone's going to feel or need but that said it's a cool binding and let's talk about why so most notably this 360 degrees of rotation is is really quite unique you're not going to see any other binding that that turns completely around this is known as the turntable heel and it's pretty iconic now what makes it cool is it releases very consistently and it releases in a lot of different ways so because this is able to kind of spin all the way around it releases in what look says 360 degrees there are some people who think this is like the safest binding on the market i wouldn't go as far as saying that um all the i've torque tested like every single binding up here and they all they all release within the intended release specs so i wouldn't go quite that far but what's really cool about this binding is it's elastic travel and especially in the heel piece so it will keep you into your skis longer than most bindings up here now if you think about like the the skier type thing when you're getting your skis mounted or you're demoing skis and they say hey are you a type 1 type 2 or type 3 or type 3 plus skier a type three skier by definition is somebody who prefers their skis to stay on their feet in the event of a fall a type one skier is somebody who wants their skis to release now that's where this binding kind of comes into play if you're a type 3 skier and you prefer in most situations for your skis to stay on i think pivots are really good the other benefit of pivots is the short drill pattern so if you can imagine a boot kind of clicked into these the furthest back screws in this binding are right here so about two inches ab before the actual back of your boot now if we compare it to you know even another binding from look this spx heal the furthest back screw is all the way back there to that finger where the back your boot is right there so when you're drilling a binding into a ski you're kind of creating this platform and because the pivot has a shorter drill pattern the platform itself is shorter and because there's more elastic travel in this heel it will allow the ski to flex a little bit more naturally under foot so those are kind of the reasons why you see a lot of people talking about the pivots you see a lot of like high level skiers or high end skiers kind of swearing by this stuff i will say personally i have a lot of pivots on a lot of my skis i think they feel great but i'm also somebody who swore by this binding for a long time i swore by the attack 16 for a long time i have a hundred percent trust in all three of those bindings as well as like the solomon sth16 i i'm not so much of a pivot snob which is a term that we like to throw around that i would say it is drastically better to than the rest of these bindings to the point where like they're obsolete or inferior i don't feel that way at all i do think for certain skiers there are performance benefits to the pivot and reasons to choose it but i like all those other bindings as well now the pivot 18 i think this is like you know a pretty darn important one to talk about too you get a full metal toe piece out of this pivot 18 and they did just re-release the pivot 15 as well if you don't fall into the 8 to 18 din range on the pivot 18. kind of like taking that to another level if you're the type of skier who is really really demanding on your equipment you want something that is practically bomb proof and by that i mean you could throw this into a bomb and explode the bomb and it would probably come out intact or at least the metal housing would this is a really good option you don't get the same 180 degree release out of the tow you know i think that is something that you need to keep in mind when you're considering a pivot 18 or a pivot 15 there aren't those wings so you don't get the same vertical release and stuff like that so kind of going a step further towards that like i'm the type of skier who would prefer my skis to stay on my feet type of thing now those are pivots let us know if you have any questions about pivots compared to jester pros compared to attack 16s or whatever i know just from reading the comments and communicating with you guys that we have a lot of pivot fans among our audience so yeah if you want to share your thoughts if you're one of these skiers or another skier or you've been on binding x and then you switched to binding y and you felt this let us know i know other people really like reading that stuff as well and then from there we're going to move into some kind of more specific stuff starting with this knee binding extreme or i think that knee binding hardcore i always thought this binding was called the extreme knee bindings are pretty darn cool they're actually based here in stowe as a company and they've been around for a while i was actually involved in some of the early early prototype testing of these bindings back when i was part of the uvm freestyle ski team these are intended to decrease knee injuries and specifically acl tears um i'm not going to get into why that is or like the you know the the engineering of why that happens if you want to knee binding has a ton of this information and you could spend like hours kind of looking through different charts and stuff like that and and reading why this binding functions a little differently there's more lateral release out of the toe or out of the heel rather and there's there's basically just more lateral release out of everything um this toe piece is pretty darn unique how this in the sense that there's a single pivoting like it's one unit instead of wings so if you're concerned about knee injuries or if you're coming out of a knee surgery i do think this is an interesting option something that i'd like to point out about this binding is the stand height is really high it's almost like if you were to mount um something like this on a race plate which a lot of people take this binding and put it on a race plate you're basically like achieving the same height as this binding on a race plate so me personally and i think it's fair to say a lot of skiers especially skiers like me prefer to have a lower stand height lower center of gravity but i do think the knee binding is a really cool choice for a carving ski in fact there are a lot of people here in stowe that have this binding mounted on something like a stokley laser ar or a stokley laser ax or or another one of those flat carving skis because you don't have to put a you don't have to put a race plate on them and then you're still getting like a nice amount of leverage over the ski which i think is kind of cool but that's the knee binding it's pretty darn unique i would encourage you to read their information on it because i don't want to get anything wrong um and it is like a pretty interesting thing but if you're concerned about knee injuries there's that option and i think it's nice to have now next up is the salomon shift also the armada shift also the atomic shift all three of those brands now have their own shift and this binding kind of changed the game a little bit this is a hybrid alpine touring and resort binding we have talked about this binding plenty we did a full review on this binding so if you want to know more about it go check that out but if you're looking for a binding that crosses over and performs well as an alpine touring binding and in the resort these shifts are really good they're also pretty darn light too this 13 is 1700 grams and this 10 version is 1370 and the tendon version is new the range is 4 to 10. it's new for 2021 basically there were a handful of skiers or more than a handful of skiers that didn't quite fall into the 6 to 13 din range of the shift 13. mostly lighter weight women younger skiers stuff like that usually it was people that had a five din that were like what do i do now you have an option in this shift 10 and it's quite a bit lighter too actually the heel piece is like noticeably different or at least it was the first time i lifted them up but really good bindings if you don't know about these bindings there's plenty of information out there basically it transitions from a binding that was designed based on that sth that we unfortunately don't have in this comparison so you get solomon's cool wings up here and then it basically just transitions into a pintec touring binding so you get really really efficient use on the uphill you know efficient ascents and then a strong binding for the descents as well and like like i said this binding kind of like changed the game when it came out previously to that we were using pretty much all frame bindings and these ski way better remember when we were talking about how a pivot allows a ski to flex under foot this is the f12 tor from marker which is still a certainly a reasonable option for a touring binding especially if you don't have a techfit boot if you don't have pintec holes in the in the toe of your boot this is a really good choice the reason why we're moving away from stuff like this is the frame itself can provide kind of a dead spot on the ski so instead of a binding like this where the drill pattern is really short and then the elastic travel kind of allows the ski to flex this big frame is kind of doing the opposite it's basically stopping the ski from flexing underfoot but it's a little bit more affordable so this f12 tor i believe it's for gosh i didn't write it down i think i'll flash it up on the screen i think it's 429 where shifts were in the 549 and 599 range and then now we have a new option from marker that being the duke pt and we have a duke pt 12 and a duke pt 16. like the shift i'm not going to go through all the like changes to how it operates i find it easier to do that when it's actually drilled into a ski than just holding it in your hand but we have a full review of this binding as well so if you want to learn about all that stuff how it works how it functions how you take the how you transition from alpine to touring mode all that kind of stuff take a look at those reviews so the duke pt i think this is fair to say it was designed kind of in response to the shift or maybe it was start maybe the development started before then but that's how it felt because this is the first year for the duke pt where the shift has been around for a few years now we get a 12 dim version and a 16 din version this is basically a squire heel piece and this is basically a jester heel piece so obviously as we've learned the 16 is going to be a little stronger than the 12-in version but also a little bit heavier so back to that self-assessment period you kind of have to ask yourself if you're interested in these two bindings do i need the extra strength of this heel piece or will at 12 be just fine and you know basically what you're weighing no pun intended is the the weight so this 12 is 2300 grams in alp and this is both an alpine mode and this is 2700 grams in alpine mode so 400 grams heavier over here in the 16 but you do get a stronger heel piece now these are a little different in the way that they kind of transition from alpine mode to touring mode in the marker you can take this whole toe piece off and there's kind of like another binding under there the shift kind of just like it's like a transformer it transforms from alpine binding to techfit binding in the way that it kind of like folds and then like other things pop out and other things pop in this you're basically just taking off this this toe piece in the front and you're revealing what's basically like a deena fit toe i think it is perfectly fair and i don't think anybody from solomon would argue with me or is going to send me a nasty email for saying this if you're looking for a hybrid resort alpine touring binding and you're like the most aggressive skier on the world or in the world i this is the strongest alpine touring binding of this design um you know if you think back to like the duke frame binding that was always kind of known as one of the strongest bindings along with the guardian 16 that was a solomon atomic binding or the tracker 16. those were kind of the upper echelon which makes sense because they share this 16 din range this is a stronger overall binding than the shift but it's quite a bit heavier so that shift 13 was 1700 grams and this is 2700 grams so that's a thousand grams heavier uh in alpine mode which is a significant difference so you kind of like i've said this so many times throughout this comparison but it goes back to self-assessment so like are you hitting 100 foot back country jumps are you dropping 50 foot cliffs in the back country if the answers to those questions are yes you might consider going with this now that said i've seen people do those things on shifts and get away with it just fine but this is going to be a little bit stronger so if you're really looking for that the the strongest possible touring binding you can get and you're not concerned about weight at all that is i do think it's it's stronger than the shift now i'll admit i have both um i have a shift 13 on a slightly lighter pair of skis and then i have a duke pt 16 on a pair of skis that's like kind of huge and already pretty heavy and i didn't care about how light the bindings were going to be on that ski in my mind i was like maybe i'll get to go heli skiing or touring in alaska someday and like this will be the ski that i bring but for here and stow i use my setup with the shift more often just because i usually value having a slightly lighter binding so it again it all goes back to self-assessment personal preference and kind of choosing what's right for you so i'm going to leave it there i think that was plenty long i'm hoping i didn't bore you guys or or just tell you a bunch of things you already knew about these bindings uh i've i have learned over the past week that a binding comparison is a fairly challenging thing to do and like i said at the beginning we could have spent like three hours going through all these bindings and talking about the difference in how many engagement points they have the exact stand height of every single binding that's the kind of stuff that you can find all those stats are out there um i didn't think we needed to really go that deep um and hopefully i'm not wrong and hopefully you got a sense of among these bindings what would be best for you as a skier and as always if you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out to us leave a comment right here on youtube or right here on the article if you're reading the written article on chairlift chat please don't hesitate to do so i would say among our staff we have skied easily every single binding on this or in this comparison and just even me personally i've probably skied 12 or 13 of them so if you have any questions about how they feel the differences in performance the differences in feel and we didn't touch on that in this video please don't hesitate to leave a question and we will get back to you as soon as we can as we always do and yeah that's it it's a ton of bindings lots to talk about hopefully you guys are getting out skiing uh christmas is in a few days so happy holidays hopefully you guys are getting some time off for the holidays and can get on the slopes with family and friends and stuff like that stay safe stay happy stay positive still kind of covered ski season here in vermont as it is everywhere else so we'll see you guys out there on the slopes and once again happy holidays

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Id: RqF6AWejbsY

Length: 44min 38sec (2678 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2020