Dynafit Bindings are fustrating.

Snowboy, I checked your suggestion and that's the problem with mine. There are so worn down at toe that they are not always fully engaging toe plate and pincers.
Thanks for the suggestion and fix!

I've always wanted a pair of bindings that relied upon duct tape to work. ???

Cool! Glad we nailed it down for you.

Never, ever had a problem with Fritschi's. Could it be that the Fritschi users that the guides are basing their opinion upon are hucking and skiing harder because they are not on Dynafits and therefore causing more breakages?

Dunno for sure, as it was a relatively quick but memorable discussion, but two things make me think this is at least not the full answer:
1) The guides have a tendency to try to limit hard-hitting hucking opportunities with most groups as they seem to enjoy not having to deal with body or gear damage if they can help it
2) Here's where my memory is fuzzier, but my recollection is that w/the Fritschis, the breakage happened while mucking around with the heel lifter and locking portions while standing not skiing - that there was a "stupid combo of steps" that caused breakage.

I figure that of anyone I've skied with, these guys had the most statistically significant data, and they seemed to make a point of memorizing issues w/different gear so they could be on the lookout with each new group of clients.

And regarding the followup comments on Rainey's last generation of SuperLoops, the guides indeed mentioned multiple failure modes for those heel lifters (including screws ripping out of skis as well as the wire bail levering the heelplate until it cracked in half and became useless).

I seem to recall that Sky hucks in Dynafits but would have to search the site to confirm...

Yesterday I was out and about and had a marvellous day at Paradise and skied Nisqaully Glacier to the bridge and lots of powder and had no problems with my Fritschi bindings. Lots of people I met who know who I am, commented on this thread and gave me some well deserved shit!

BUT , one of my group had dynafits, other three all had Fritschi's. He shall remain unnamed unless he chooses to share.
He is a great skier and very experienced.
Towards the end of the day, his binding malfunctioned and for about 15 mins he could not get his toe pincers to engage. He tried everything , opening and closing the toe, the dynafit prison shiv, the dynafit toe boogy, and eventually cleaned the mechanism sufficiently to get his binding to work. I DID NOT CAUSE THIS MALFUNCTION.

After apologising for the delay he caused the group( and I knew how the d00d felt man! :'( :'() we BOTH agreed that Dynafits CAN be FRUSTRATING!
Q.E.D.

Scotty- after "he who will not be named" got himself together we then...

...watched your son eat it and then consoled ourselves with some powder turns and called it a good day out! High Five! Verrrry Niiiiccceee! Mazama Face was awesome!

oh yeah, dynafits are like women- finicky and high maintenance at times!

chris

Dynafits CAN be FRUSTRATING!

No argument from me there. They are clearly not optimized for casual convenience - I'd say that was traded for simplicity of mechanism and lightness (and, anecdotally, for reliability - at least in terms of not being as prone to catastrophic failure as many bindings).