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Ski binding smashed my finger

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OG_Loc
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last night i was mounting a pair of skis and with rossi fks bindings a, for anyone who knows how they work, i snapped the heel piece on my finger. if you look at the picture, you'll see where this all happened. i haven't had feeling in the tip of my finger for almost 12 hours now. but am i the only one who's done this? or have other people had their ski mechanisms turn on them?

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13 years ago
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JWoods
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It happens, and it is death
13 years ago
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Blurst
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Been there and its not pleasant.
13 years ago
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YooperSteeze
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Thats super fucking painful.
13 years ago
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ggfski42
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got bit by the cobra dude, your done for.

13 years ago
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manzear
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Been there, hope you get the feeling back.
13 years ago
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Coxworth
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happened to me in a car, not chill
13 years ago
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skier_boy26
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It is a quasi right of passage with FKS & Pivots

It happens. It hurts.
13 years ago
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Mag
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I don't see how so many people manage this, I find them safer to push down than any other bindings. Except maybe griffons/jesters
13 years ago
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Jaggy_Snake
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Saw this thread with FKS heel piece in mind, entered, wasn't disappointed.
13 years ago
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OG_Loc
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I have a new found respect for ski bindings. i thought i was going to lose my finger. the worst part was that it wasn't on the ski yet so i had no leverage to release myself. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's done this though. hahah
13 years ago
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Moses
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My middle finger was caught in that same spot about 2 1/2 months ago, it sucked.

I was holding the bottom of the heel piece and it engaged. It hurt, but then when I went to pull my hand out it was stuck. I tried to push the heel back down but the curved part on the bottom pushed the finger down even harder...could not slide the hand to the side either.
"goddammit, you have got to be kidding me" I shouted.

I had to walk outside from my basement to the barn with a ski stuck to my finger to find my pops so that he could use a beefy screwdriver to push to the side and pry up so that I could get my finger out.

was trapped for maybe 5 mins
Fucked my nail up and the tip of the finger was numb for a few weeks.
The new nail is now starting to grow underneath and feeling is fine.

Be careful out there
13 years ago
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Moses
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*Edit - binding stuck to my finger
13 years ago
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mode2n
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My friend once closed his door on my hand and didn't say so sorry. Does that count?
13 years ago
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Peach.
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Oh my god I don't even want to talk about that.
DEATH DEATH DEATH.
13 years ago
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gnartogue
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i saw this thread and promised myself i would never let this happen to me. just smashed my middle and ring finger on my fks 155. no fun at all.
12 years ago
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Round-Four
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my dad did that to himself when he was a kid, but that was before they had safety bindings and shit so he had to unscrew the whole binding and go to the hospital to have it removed.
12 years ago
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K-Thomas
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this. all it takes is once, and you learn your lesson.
12 years ago
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rwalk
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My manager said he did the same thing while mounting my pivots
12 years ago
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HumanGenius
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thats exactly why i turn the DIN all the way down when i'm mounting/tuning in case something like that happens i can get myself out
12 years ago
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timC
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I feel your pain op. after I picked up my pivots at Rei I was playing around with them in the car. My friend had to slam on the breaks and it cause me to snap the binding over my thumb. It swelled to the size of a golf ball on the opposite end. I had no leverage to get it off since i was in a moving car and it wan not on a ski. ended up running into a safeway we drove by and some random military guy helped me get it off, saving my thumb.Was stuck on there for a good 5 minutes and to this day was the scariest and most painful experience of my life.
12 years ago
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1337
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did it with an unmounted pair and had to run around trying to find someone who was home to hold it and release it because my fucking thumb was trapped
12 years ago
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ForeverYung
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Haha I just picture that and it 'twas funny
12 years ago
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.Roockley.
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i always got my mitts caught in them, on pow days it wasn't fun
12 years ago
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FuckAllOfYou
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i just pictured fred running around screaming in his voice, sorry
12 years ago
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C_Thomps-12
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i knew as soon as i saw the title is was gonna be FKS/pivot. hurts so much
12 years ago
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EvanMeyer
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as soon as I saw the thread title I had to see what binding it was and to no surprise at all it was the same bindings that did the same thing to me. soooo fucking painful especially when it gets stuck at an awkward angle where you cant get the leverage to get it off.
12 years ago
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crab_pretzel
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this is why im too scared to ever get fks. well, not really, its cuz i cant afford them, but these horror stories sound awful
12 years ago
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Malcolm
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I've never done that but it's always scared the shit out of me.
12 years ago
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Calb3rt
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I did that last year! the tip of my finger split open from the pressure and i still dont have felling in a part of it. let me find some pictures....
12 years ago
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Malcolm
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I don't want to see those pictures but I have to
12 years ago
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El_Barto.
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safer than Jesters. I Squatted down and the heel piece jammed right up my cornhole
12 years ago
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Bread_Fish
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We want pics
12 years ago
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Calb3rt
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so if those worked then the first two are from the day it happened and the last two are obviously once the nail fell off.
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12 years ago
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Calb3rt
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12 years ago
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Blindsurfer
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this thread has talked me out of getting fks
12 years ago
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Montana_Hoodrat
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first time i ever saw fks bindings in person i played with them. the shop employee quickly grabbed them away and said "don't mess with those" they will mess you up. he showed me his pinky finger. it looked disgusting. just like the above guy's
12 years ago
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Round-Four
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FUCK FUCK FUCK
12 years ago
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ejm
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i fucking hate it, did this last week and broke 3/4 of my nail of. Not fun at all
12 years ago
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whipple
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wow i cant believe how many people have also done this. I got my thumb trapped in it last year and literally just sat there and stared at it for a minute like "how the hell im i gonna get my thumb out of this." Shit was like a mouse trap, had to push the binding back down putting it further into my thumb before releasing it, took like 3 tries to haha
12 years ago
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Granby_killdozer
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fuck dude... I know that had to hurt like a bitch.
12 years ago
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Mr.Bishop
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I came into this thread to say 'pics or it didn't happen'

Pics were already there.

Regretted seeing them.

12 years ago
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pelle_munch
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hurts like a fucking BITCH. did it last season right when they were new and fresh, pretty much the only downside to these bindings
12 years ago
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DeRizzo
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im good with my salomon sth's
12 years ago
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Cat_Steezens
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did the same thing with a pair of unmounted dynafit bindings when we got a new pair in my shop and i was checking them out because theyre pretty dam interesting. had to put them on a demo board/plate and managed to smash my thumb, such a stupid thing but shit it really hurts

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12 years ago
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rhudson
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Crazy you should post this. I've done this a few years ago in my look pivots, but my buddy came into my shop the other day and tried to help my friend who was mounting his FKS to remove the brake and did the same thing before I could stop him. After we got his finger out he was leaning against the counter and started shaking and passed out, we caught him he was sweating profusely so we got him snow on the finger and water and sat him down. ten seconds later we look up and he passes out again flat on his back and hits his head on the concrete floor! needless to say he was hung over and the shock and pain and lack of hydration got him good! Made for an interesting day at work for sure. FKS aka Moustrap
12 years ago
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_Garagely_
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Besides when mounting bindings I don't get how you could do this. Also, I will never get FKS of Pivots.
12 years ago
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OG_Loc
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my finger looks kind of like this, but I never broke through the skin, my fingernail is a purple color and the corners are peeling away right now… I still can't feel my finger completely either. but damn, you really got messed up!
12 years ago
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L1FTED
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been there done that same binding.  shits got some bite!!!
12 years ago
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LC.
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Shut my finger in FKS set on 14 once. Someone else had to release me from it. Not fun.
12 years ago
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kootenayklaus
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I did that at a shop before, and the binding was set at like DIN12. Took three shop attendants to snap that fucker off, lost my fingernail too ahahaha.
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