Come out or Stay in the bindings?

(okcrashhighlight)

Had this discussion last night, and i have always been a always stay in the bindings kind of guy. One of the Hoffman sisters said in her interview that you should always be able to come out on a bad crash. I have always been told that coming out of the binding is worse than staying in. Especially if only one leg comes out. What is your personal preference?

(Message edited by okcrashhighlight on March 13, 2008)

(sidekicknicholas)

I like coming out learning new tricks.... I seriously hate throwing somethings because I know I won't come out and the fall almost certain. I wish I had my old murrays learning some stuff... it would make me much less gun shy.

I am riding Drivers now and I took a real bad spill - (puked, spit up blood, still have bruises on my back) on a Pete the other day, didnt even budge from the boot... it would have been much less painfull if I would have come out

(denwbaseball) · (denwbaseball) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 03-13-2008, 9:01 AM

Yea, if you ask me I prefer to come out. I think you risk injury a lot more if you stay in. And it just seems to hurt more when I stay in.

(rmcronin) · (rmcronin) **Join Date: Aug 2002** 03-13-2008, 9:06 AM

Last summer was my first in 11 years of riding with bindings you don't come out of and had a few of my hardest falls. I never had a problem with only 1 foot coming out. BTW, do you come out of Factions anyone? Thinking of them for this summer.

(sinkoumn) · (sinkoumn) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 03-13-2008, 9:09 AM

I'd rather just release out, but my favorite is the one foot halfway out, other foot all the way out - those hurt the most

(bmartin) · (bmartin) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 03-13-2008, 9:14 AM

One in and one out is the worst, but you have no control over that. I would MUCH rather come all the way out on hard falls than to stay in.

(rc005) · (rc005) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 03-13-2008, 9:17 AM

i def want to come out on hard falls.. also seems like it would be better on your joints and such

(dan_k) · (dan_k) **Join Date: Sep 2007** 03-13-2008, 9:29 AM

when i was learning a tantrum my foot came out of one and half out the other while upside down ha and that really hurt but this year im riding with the new ONE binders and tightening them :-)

(absoluteboarder)

...I prefer to stay in and have been injury free since the day that I got bindings that keep me in Some people on my boat have done some solid face plants...with the board coming off........they still didn't feel to well! Its a tough call...but I have had a great experience staying in...but then again I am also no pro.

(lfxstar) · (lfxstar) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 03-13-2008, 10:04 AM

Nick, if you ever want to come out of your bindings, riding slingshots is definitely not the way to go lol But yeah a bad back edge on a pete is a real biatch

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 03-13-2008, 10:25 AM

I've never tried a binding that I couldn't come out of. I've used 3DS & 07 Slingshot and pretty much every CWB. You stack hard enough and you will come out. Thats how it should be, small falls stay in, big falls get ejected. Personally I like to stay in on all but the hardest falls, but prefer more flexible bindings. I think it comes down to having a boot that helps eliminate heel lift while still maintaining flexibility. Enter Hinge Tech.

(Message edited by stephan on March 13, 2008)

(detonate69) · (detonate69) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 03-13-2008, 10:25 AM

I'd rather come out. But I don't, Ha Ha. I like to ride with my bindings pretty tight so my feet don't move at all and a side effect is I don't come out on falls, and I've had some bad ones. I was riding Factions and I NEVER came out of them. I picked up some Answers for this year so I guess we'll see how those go. I doubt I'll come out of them either though!

(iukekini) · (iukekini) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 03-13-2008, 10:28 AM

I want to stay in my boots as much as possible but there are those falls where you catch an edge really hard and you need to come out of the boots. I have never really had a problem with only one leg coming out but I hate it when you only come half way out of the boots, that's the worst.

(bmartin) · (bmartin) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 03-13-2008, 10:44 AM

You can always tell you had a bad wreck the last time you rode when you go to put to put on your board and see that the bindings are still laced up and ratched tight. Kind of brings back flashbacks.

(Message edited by bmartin on March 13, 2008)

(iukekini) · (iukekini) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 03-13-2008, 10:47 AM

^Haha thats so true!

(eubanks01) · (eubanks01) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 03-13-2008, 11:20 AM

^ Agreed. I'm always amazed at how my foot can even come out when I see how tight I have the bindings cranked down when they are still laced up.

I would rather stay in. I like my boots really tight, so the occasional harder crash of staying in is worth the trade off. That and I have 2005 Murray bindings, and it would be a royal pain to do the lace, BOA, and strap on every fall.

justinh 03-13-2008, 11:37 AM

Everyone who has had a major leg injury list how your feet were situated after the spill.

Torn ACL: Both in

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 03-13-2008, 11:50 AM

Broken ankle. Both in.

cougar4 03-13-2008, 11:53 AM

broken ankle as well. one in one out.

(oaboards) · (oaboards) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 03-13-2008, 12:09 PM

I did not come out of my CWB bindings last year on a really bad 360 crash and dislocated my shoulder. I have the new slingshot D2s now and i took the inner brace out and i dont tighten the bottom lace only the top. We will see how those work.

(wakeboardnut) · (wakeboardnut) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 03-13-2008, 12:45 PM

Yah, i love my SHANES but I hate knowing that i wont come out.

(wakemetoday) · (wakemetoday) **Join Date: Mar 2006** 03-13-2008, 12:57 PM

I'm like Chase about the Shane bindings. I hate not coming out. I came up short on a 360 and didn't come out of my bindings, and I thought my legs were going to rip off at the hips.

(kyle_m) · (kyle_m) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 03-13-2008, 1:00 PM

if the crash is hard enough your feet will find a way to come out thas just my experiance no injurys yet but i thought id never come outta my ronix ones but sure enough i ate sh$t one day and came right out and they were as tight as i can get em

(bbr) · (bbr) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 03-13-2008, 1:05 PM

Torn ACL and meniscus(sp) on my left knee, and severe sprain of my right knee. Both times only one foot stayed in.

I would much rather stay in for most spills. However, if you take a fall that is hard enough, both feet should come out.

Jruss- do you think that you dislocated your shoulder because you stayed in the boots?

(nauty) · (nauty) **Join Date: Feb 2004** 03-13-2008, 1:13 PM

Torn PCL: One in, one out.

Personally, I think if you ride with your bindings loose so that you will come out on a bad spill, you have a higher risk of one in, one out.

I would rather be locked in and not risk one in, one out. In the 5 years since tearing my PCL I have ridden locked in and have never come out of my boots. I'm riding the Zeus these days and I'm not sure I could come out of those if I wanted to?

(mxflyer281) · (mxflyer281) **Join Date: Oct 2007** 03-13-2008, 1:33 PM

In for sure I rock my bindings super tight

(absoluteboarder)

badly sprained ankle (out 5 months ,tore all the small bones in the ankle apart).....one in one out.

(sippi) · (sippi) **Join Date: Dec 2007** 03-13-2008, 1:54 PM

Broken fibula in 06, wearing 06 parks bindings. all last year i was so timid riding, didn't learn 1 new thing last year i was so timid. Any of ya'll have any problems "gettin back on the horse" so to speak without bein timid on the water?

(wakecis) · (wakecis) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 03-13-2008, 1:58 PM

fractured tibial plateau.
both in.

(wakerider111) · (wakerider111) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 03-13-2008, 2:08 PM

never broken anything *yet*... but i am still mostly timid to try new stuff. I can get the air necissary for most any trick in the book i suppose. just a bit of a "pansy" who likes to go big... while "rooted" to my bindings.

I have tried to train myself to grab the board with my hands if ever i end up in a one in one out

(absoluteboarder)

charles I also had the tibial plateau....but that was on a clean landing casing the wake....coming out of the bindings wouldn't of helped....I am not sure coming out could prevent that injury...it has more to do with a down force upon landing.

(absoluteboarder)

.....sippi ..if the doc says your good to go your good to go......I was back riding after my tibial plateau (it was a minor break) after 7 weeks....just eased in to it but then you just have to forget about it..I doubt you will break it in the same spot again...but maybe another!

sorry kinda hijacked

(sidekicknicholas)

I busted some ribs on a rail... but in retrospect it was me being completely stupid... I had no trouble hitting the same rail again, i just made sure I wasn't stupid

(hawkeye7708) · (hawkeye7708) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 03-13-2008, 3:11 PM

when i was trying some 3 stuff last summer i'd leave the top strap on the 3DS off in case i took a bad edge catch. I guess it all depends on the fall, but i will say one thing! I'd rather have both feet come out than only one. no lie

(robertr720) · (robertr720) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 03-13-2008, 3:19 PM

Torn ACL, both in but coming out wouldn't have made it any better as it was the force of the landing that did the trick.

(savage) · (savage) **Join Date: Mar 2008** 03-13-2008, 5:38 PM

I like coming out. Last year I had a bad crash and only my back foot came out. Pretty much did the splits and about tore my groin.

(tonis) · (tonis) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 03-13-2008, 5:59 PM

I have cracked my ankles coming out and staying in. I prefer having my ankle out of the binding after I wreck myself. It hurts like hell when you have everyone assisting you while trying to get out. Its a lot easier saying "I am done!" and in the boat you go.

(wake_upppp) · (wake_upppp) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 03-13-2008, 6:00 PM

Concur with everything Stephan said, exept the Hinge Tech, I prefer my Murrays'

(clearlakescott)

broken ankle both in, broken jaw both in

(wakeboardern1) · (wakeboardern1) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 03-13-2008, 9:05 PM

Some kind of ligament sprain, pain lasted 7 months before a cortizone shot, doctors couldn't pinpoint it, both feet in. Then I got back up and kept riding... I'm so smart. But I don't think my feet coming out would have changed anything. My knee still would have been twisted as my feet came out of the bindings, so fair game.

(sidekicknicholas)

Kyle, I know what you mean, believe me.... Pete's and going out the front on TS 5's (on axis) are the worst falls you can take.

I had shanes before the drivers and thought those were locked in, the heel lockdown lace could also be called the "No-way in hell are you coming out lace"

the screws are pulling out of the board or a lace will break before I come out.... or my leg will just pull off.

(da_kamp) · (da_kamp) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 03-13-2008, 9:59 PM

since my ankle's not fully healed i'm going to wanna come out on almost every fall.

Not going to be trippin, hinge techs FTW

(whitlecj) · (whitlecj) **Join Date: Apr 2004** 03-14-2008, 6:28 AM

I actually prefer to stay in. Nothing worse than having one foot come out and the other stay in as it is hard on my old knees.

(akdoc) · (akdoc) **Join Date: Feb 2004** 03-14-2008, 6:39 AM

I would rather come completely out. I suffered a Lisfranc fracture in my foot because I had one in, one halfway out....pop....no good.

willytown12 03-14-2008, 6:41 AM

I prefer to be both in or both out, i hate it when just one comes out

(sippi) · (sippi) **Join Date: Dec 2007** 03-14-2008, 11:27 AM

Michael, I know exactly what you mean! ive been hurt playin soccer but never lost confidence when i came back. For some reason the confidence is shot though coming back from that one with wakeboarding. I'm a frappin psychology major and know what I'm "suppose" to be doing and thinking. But that's alot different than actually doing it. I've definitely had the "pansy" syndrome too. But lately its been getting better, and gaining confidence back, slowly but surely.

(guido) · (guido) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 03-14-2008, 1:55 PM

With the old CD lace up boots you absolutely would not come out. I never thought too much about it till I had a pair of those.

I got lit up sooo bad on sooo many occasions in those boots. If I stack hard enough I definitely want out of the bindings. The final straw was bruising the top of my feet on a hard crash because they couldn't get pulled clear of the binding. I also ripped the inserts out of a board and I swear I made myself an inch taller.

I'd never had my joints in my knees and hips sore after a crash before, but the CD's did it.

(kickflip_mj) · (kickflip_mj) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 03-14-2008, 2:47 PM

i like to stay in but trust me when the board comes off you know you messed up. i actually ripped a pair of liquid force transits when i tore my MCL. no fun.

i had a knee that snapped sidways, broken binding and a rocked brain.. not a fun day,

(canucked) · (canucked) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 03-14-2008, 3:08 PM

both feet in, torn ACL