Thanks, Coach. I appreciate the explanation and clarification.

Do you remember roughly during what year/years you were returning those bindings? When were your coaching days? :) Just wondering if it might be consistent with these bindings...2000-2002ish...somewhere in there?

Also, did you discover the problematic bindings because your students were pre-releasing from the bindings? Or was the problem otherwise obvious?

Interesting about your brother's observation of the Centro bindings testing inconsistently. Was that roughly within the same time-frame?

Thanks again for helping me to sort through this, Coach.

Joanie

"Jonathan S. Shefftz" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I think there are two different things getting mixed up here:

1. The regular Atomic bindings would sometimes get messed up after awhile,
so that the heel would essentially be functioning at a very low release
setting no matter what the indicator window read and how far the release
screw was turned. I returned a few pairs of these during my coaching days.

2. The Centro design was just messed up in general. When my brother was
working in a ski shop, he tested some, and the results were wildly
inconsistent. (Unfortunately, he did this *after* skiing - or rather,
attempting to ski - on a pair at Kirkwood, although then again it was
mildly amusing seeing my brother with his far superior skiing skills
relative to mine actually fall, even if it wasn't his fault.)

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