Thanks Matt,

  I missed the quote - "I always lock my bindings to not lose my skis on a run. It’s a personal choice." in the link on the first posting to that thread.

  Interesting that some later posters say that DIN 12 is about the breaking point of a human leg.

  Randy

> Basically, she destroyed the top of her tibia & all of the soft tissue in
> her left knee (cartilage, menisci (?) ligaments). Based on her account, it
> sounds like she had her tech binding toes intentionally set in the uphill
> (non-release) setting, which could have been a contributing factor to her
> injuries. Some people will do that in no-fall scenarios, but as one of the
> subsequent posters pointed out, if you're skiing at relatively high speeds,
> should you really be using the non-release setting? It sounds like operator
> error to me, not a binding issue.
> 
> —Matt
> 
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Randy Witlicki <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>>  Can anybody make  sense of this skier injury in the thread below.
>>  The link in the first post has the initial story.
>>  Is this a binding setting issue?
>> 
>>  http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=125854#2897226
>> 
>>  Randy

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