Getting in and out of bindings

(kgoings) · (kgoings) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 04-26-2006, 8:10 AM

I got some LF EXO Suc bindings (med and I wear a size 8 mens) dang these things are super hard to get into and out of...and it feels like I am loosing blood circulation to my feet when I have them on. Am I just not used to having good bindings or do you think they are too small?? I wear a size 7 1/2 to an 8 in mens so I figured a Med would be fine.

(fumanchoo) · (fumanchoo) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 04-26-2006, 8:15 AM

to small

d_fresh 04-26-2006, 9:12 AM

Do you use lube in the bindings? I have a set and they were tight when new. When I first got them, people who borrowed my board (newbies) would freek out trying to get out.

(aden_g) · (aden_g) **Join Date: Mar 2006** 04-26-2006, 9:25 AM

They might be a bit small, those bindings are TIGHT!!!

You can try a couple things.... 1, warm water stretches out the binding material. Wear them in a bathtub and move around like you are riding. I used to do that in '03 with my O'Brien Ions. They also used to cut off the circulation, and I remember one time it took me 40 minutes and 2 bottles of soap to get my left foot out of my binding.

I don't know how you acquired them, but you could take them back and exchange for a size Large. That also might help.

Being at the biggest size of a range sucks. I am size 12, and large O'Brien bindings fit 9-12. I can either slip out of XL's, or kill my feet in larges. But once I figured a method to get out of my Larges, I wouldn't change them for anything.

(aden_g) · (aden_g) **Join Date: Mar 2006** 04-26-2006, 9:28 AM

Or you can also do this... when you have decided you are tired of riding, cut in to the wake with pretty good angle, and pop pretty hard. Keep the line tension, and when you are at the peak of your jump let go of the rope, and turn your body 90º frontside or backside (either work). Cover your face and your balls, and those bindings will be off like nothing!

(jcv) · (jcv) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 04-26-2006, 9:30 AM

Aden, that's funny. I have a friend who's a master of the binding slide out technique. He can do it at will. Doesn't Danny Harf do that to get out of his sometimes?

(ttrigo) · (ttrigo) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 04-26-2006, 10:10 AM

I wore the exo's for a while. I have the same size foot, and wore the mediums. they never really stretched out enough to be comfortable for me. I had the overlays all the way out, did the bathtub, beer bottle, etc. ended up going to the sphynx's, and did not have those problems in the mediums.