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Marker piston control
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I am looking at buying the Volkl AC3 with the Motion iPT 12.0 Piston, 177 in length. i was wondering if the piston actaully does anything. i can get the skis with or without the piston for the same price. any advice or opinions would be appreciated.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Well, the guy that runs my local ski shop has a daughter who races and is sponsored by Fischer skis. She has been using Marker piston bindings for the last few years, and the view is that they make no noticable difference. Maybe not too surprising when you realise that the travel of the piston is about a quarter inch at most. In fact most of the slalom skiers with these bindings run them in the 'off' setting as to set the piston 'on' means turning a tab in front of the toe binding from straight forward and across to one side, and apparently this causes a spray of snow up into their faces when cranked right over!

The race bindings I've been shown have the piston mounted between the toe and heel, and if I recall right the ones you are thinking about have the piston in a frame out in front of the bindings? If so, then they may behave differently to those that I've described.

I suppose it would do no harm to go with the piston version of the binding if it's going to cost no more. Then you can make up your own mind about its usefulness without any constraint of having to convince yourself that it was worth the extra cash!

By the way, I've just bought some Volkl AC3's myself with the Motion iPT 11.0 bindings. Can't wait to get them onto real snow, have only tried some demo ones in a Snowdome but loved them there.

Jon
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