Crash in Bindings....Stay in em or come out????

azwakin · Outlaw Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 160 City: oro valley, az

What does everybody prefer. When you eat it hard do you want your feet to stay in the bindings or do you want them to come out? Which way can you get hurt more by? I had Highbacks that locked me in really good and when I ate it bad I didnt come out I sprained me ankle pretty bad. I've come out of my Ultras some what easy on a bad crash and didnt get hurt. Let me know what you think is safer.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Jun 21, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject:

comin out for sure, but i wouldent want them to come out on a Taco Bell Chalupa ass fall

BoardinDan · Posted: Jun 21, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject:

theres probably some force of pressure when you want them to release you

anti-shoobies · Posted: Jun 21, 2003 7:42 pm Post subject:

Butta Seeka pretty much summed it up.

WAKE99 · Posted: Jun 21, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject:

i let my feet fall out ,but sometimes if its not that bad of a fall they will stay in ,its no biggie

Grace B. · Posted: Jun 21, 2003 10:03 pm Post subject:

On a bad fall I would rather my feet come out. One time I did a really bad faceplant and only one of my feet came out, the board kinda twisted around and it hurt really bad for a couple of hours!

iowaboarder · Outlaw Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 238 City: Des Moines

I prefer to stay in myself, but I wear my bindings kind of tight, so it can be tough to get them back on in the water...but coming out on a nasty face plant can be helpful...

SanderB · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 2:01 pm Post subject:

I prefer them to stay on, because it's pretty hard to get in my bindings (tight ultras)

Lenny · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject:

Come out, but thats not happen'n with these new highbacks.

LHStud05 · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 7:27 pm Post subject:

yea it fukin hurts wen i face plant and the bindings come off because it fukin like squeezes my feet and ive never really go hurt wen they stayed on soo i would say stay on

seven20 · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 7:43 pm Post subject:

I'd rather mine stay on. I have tight exos, and they only came off once today on a really nasty tantrum gone wrong, but usually they don't

Wake upPp · Soul Rider Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 338 City: NOR-CAL

i think ur better off in than out unless it's a really hard fall.

dw · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

come out of course how the hell do u think i get outta my basterds of bindings, i just purposly eat it at the end and pop all the work is done Laughing

wakeboardandMotocross · Posted: Jun 22, 2003 11:03 pm Post subject:

yeah my board stays on when i have a weak wreck but if i smash it hard my board is floating

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

I don't really care, as long as both my feet come out instead of just one.

FlipsidE · Outlaw Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 143 City: Greenville, SC

I'd rather my bindings stay on when I fall. Better chance of the board not gettin away from ya...and an even better chance that the board won't come back to hit ya in the head.

Plus, with the way bindings are these days, you pretty much need soap to get in and out of them (which may require getting back up on the platform). It's just much easier if they stay on, IMO.

FlipsidE

siuski · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 6:22 am Post subject:

I agree with wakeboarder_dude22, one could get really hurt with only one foot on the board.

LHStud05 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 6:43 am Post subject:

hundel · Criminal Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 93

STAY IN!

One off -> knee injury, Two off -> head injury. None off -> Ankles and knee support in a safe, neutral position. I always thought that was why bindings are made to be almost too tight.

azwakin, of all bindings, I'm REALLY surprised you're slipping out of your ultra suctions - you sure they're sized right?

Keleous · Newbie Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 18

On a bad crash.... You want your bindings to come out. Just have less chance for injury.

Lyle · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 7:35 am Post subject:

hundel,
The only time I have gone to the hospital from wakeboarding the board stayed on my feet and it hit me in the back of the head. End up with 13 stitches. I have pictures if you want to see.

wakeriderof87 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:09 pm Post subject:

Stay on, to many bad falls where the one foot comes out. I've only come out twice in my exos

WakeBabe07 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject:

i normally stay in em and get right back up!!

calair03 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:21 pm Post subject:

I like them to stay on. Once in awhile on a bad crash they come off and back onto the boat I go to put the dang thing back on. When it happens I am always left wondering how my big a** feet came out of those tight a** bindings.

hundel · Criminal Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 93

Lyle, yeah - guess the board hitting you in the head fits under the "either" category...never could figure out how that happens.

WakeBabe07 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject:

haha that happened to me once...it hurt Laughing

King of the Tigers · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject:

I once came out and had the board smack me right above my lip line. Lots of blood and stitches. (plus I was the first rider so everyone was pissed that we had to go home.) I now use Parks bindings and cinch the gibbon out of them.

azwakin · Outlaw Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 160 City: oro valley, az

HUNDEL - I have a size 13 foot and I was wearing XL's which are for 11-12. After half a session feet hurt like hell from being so tight. Was even putting cups in them and leaving them in for a week before I went riding and still the same. But if I ate it hard enough I came out.

Luke31 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject:

The board dosn't have to come off my feet to hit me in the head.. The stitches are almost out now..

LHStud05 · Posted: Jun 23, 2003 3:27 pm Post subject:

ballsagna · Soul Rider Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 276 City: oc

come out, i have high backs taht are really tight but they will still realease on a hard fall

wbc_bill · Criminal Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 57 City: clear lake

i like to know if i'm gonna come in or out...one or the other, never one footer, too much potential to turn your knees to jello, i like my ultra suctions, they stay on almost all the time