 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi!
I've got my new K2 PEs with px 12 jibs and I'm pretty sure now I'll mount 'em +3,5 or +4, since I wanna be doing around 60% ski and rest tree/piste.
The only problem is I gotta tell my shop guy who will mount the bindings where exactly I want them.
What exactly does +4 mean? With the middle of the boot on the +4 scale on the PEs? with the heel? or +4 from the real(!) center of the ski?
I guess it's a bit of a stupid question and fast to answer, but I'm not that into bindings and all the equipment sadly 
best regards,
sol
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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+4 means mounting the bindings so that the midsole mark on your boot is on the +4 line. Did you mean to say that you'll be doing 60% in the park? If so then +4 will be good in the park but poor for everything else as it's too far forward.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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What year are they? Last years had 0-6 or thereabouts with a K2 logo in a triangle at the all round reccomended point, the older ones just had cm markings. From my experience of the older ones I'd personally go +4 for all round skiing, certainly no less than +3. Further back than that and the tails are just far too easy to overpower.
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It is perhaps a matter of personal preference and skiing style. I had the bindings on my PE's slightly forward of +3. While it was fine ON-piste I found that there was a bit 'too much tail' OFF-piste and I had to be in the back seat more.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hey!
Thanks a lot for your replies!
They are 2008s in 169cm. I read from quite a lot of people that +3 would be the most common all-round position, but since I wanna be doing a bit more park without losing toooo much of the skis other qualities I chose to mount them +4. Well they are not yet mounted, so I could still change my mind.
But why should they be "poor for everything else", I could understand that if they were center mounted, but the difference in +3 to +4 can't be too big.
The scale is 0-7 on my ski (I don't have them here sadly, they are at the shop that'll mount the bindings) and I think the real(!) center is somewhere around +7,5.
I think either way it will take some time to get used to it, but then be fun, so maybe it'll take some more time to get used to it in powder, but if they are better in the park then, I'll take that risk.
Go for +4?
Oh and special thanks to the info that +4=midsole mark of the boot on the +4 line, it shouldn't be too complicated to explain it to the shop now.
best regards,
Sol
Ps: I just noticed I wrote "60% ski" in the first post...doesn't make too much sense, I was talking about park of course 
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