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Show Page 6 Wednesday, February 9, 1977 Stay Tuned A- . Jl - By Peter Najar Wolfe's Repair Shop The following is a general guideline for adjusting ad-justing your bindings to your boots. Obviously, with the many kinds of bindings on the market, I cannot cover every one in detail. The following is a general outline of what you can do to make sure your bindings are adjusted to your boots. Plate bindings are the easiest to adjust. To adjust ad-just the boot to the binding, just make sure tha the lugs which hold the goot are snug. They should be tight enought that exit and entry should require some effort but not excessive effort. ef-fort. Adjust the heel latch lever so that the top of the heel latch is forward of the vertical line; this will prevent it from accidently unlatching. Watch Wat-ch out when you try to combine a plate binding with a boot that has any type of protrusion at the back, like a Hansen boot. Usually, the boot can be made to fit by grinding off the protrusion. Adjustment of the plate on the ski should be done by a technician, the reason being that each . plate binding has a slightly different method of adjustment. Forward pressure bindings are two-piece bindings bin-dings (heel and toe) in which the heel piece provides a constant force on the toe-piece. To see if your bindings are adjusted correctly, put the boot in the binding. Check the height and adjustment at the toe-piece. To do this there should be one millimeter of clearance between the anti-friction device and the bottom of the boot. To check this, two regular playing cards should be able to slide, with little effort between the AFD and the boot. If the clearance is too small, the binding may not function correctly; it may increase the release force. At the heel there are two adjustments, a heel height adjustment and a forward pressure ad-. ad-. justment. The heel height adjustment is done by moving the heel cup (the part of the binding that holds the boot heel onto the ski). Some bindings have a visual indicator the correct boot height adjustment, ad-justment, some don't and you have to make an educated guess, and some are automatic. The adjustment with visual indicators is simple; sim-ple; it is just a matter of getting the indicator in the correct position. The best place to find out the correct position is to look at the instructions that came with your bindings. To adjust the heel height where there is no visual indicator, just move the heel cup down until it holds the boot onto the ski without any play. Look for the forward pressure indicators on the side of the heel piece (see last weeks article) . The forward pressure indicators can only be read with the boot in the binding. Try to move the heel piece so that the lines line up correctly. If you cannot, take the skis and boots to a shop to be adjusted. A non-forward pressure binding can be checked for the correct adjustment by following the . above step, up to checking the forward pressure adjustment. The only way to check to see if a non-forward pressure binding is adjusted correctly is to make sure that it has the correct anti-shock. Anti-shock is the ability of the toe piece to move laterally to absorb a shock and then return to center. To check the binding for the correct function, place the boot in the binding and by hand turn the toe piece and let it go. The binding should recenter the boot quickly. If it does not or cannot be moved by hand, one of the adjustments could be off . Just check to see that the height adjustment at the toe is correct. If it is not, check to see if the heel is adjusted so that the heel is held down snugly. If if still is not working correctly, then you must assume that the heel piece is forcing the boot too hard against the piece, that is, creating too much forward pressure. Somehow the heel must be moved back until the proper anti-shock is obtained. The above is a rough guideline to see if your bindings are adjusted correctly. It is not meant to be step-by-step instructions on the adjustment of your bindings. If you have any questions concerning con-cerning your bindings, ask a ski repairman. Don't assume. Miners Dro Two The Park City Miners made it six in a row Friday, bowing to powerful Dugway, 68-49. As coach Ron Stepan put it, "They killed us in the first quarter." Park City was out-scored out-scored 18 to 6 in the initial period and could never recover against the team which is undefeated in Region Nine play. The disasterous start was self-inflicted. The Miners were able to get off good shots against the Mustang defense but when you convert con-vert on only three of twenty from the floor you can't expect ex-pect to stay in the game. The Miners regained their composure in the second the third quarters, outscoring Dugway 32-29. But a poor fourth quarter added to the initial deficit left the Miners winless against league op ponents. The seemed defense. Miner fortunes to hinge on their For the first one and a half periods, Park City Park City's Largest Sandwich Selection i I 19 f A SANDWICH THAT IS A MEAL This week featuring: JfielfeqetarLa.n. No mmit - jII cw Ihin sirtscs or-iUJiS3 4on our ujnoie uraa-r g&pecial sauce v: j Choice of Salad or i i MALI b SPLITS SUNDAYS OLD FASHION SODAS CONES TAKE OUT SERVICE AVAILABLE on the SAVE UP TO 50 ON OVERSTOCKED ITEMS J I "next to the gondola at the resort center J More employed a press which was easily penetnded by Dugway. It was after they switched to a 3-2 zone that the Miners began to make inroads on the Mustang bulge. Hut still trailing in the final Stanza, Park City was forced to go out after a stalling Dugway offense. Their attempted traps failed and the Mustangs went to the hoop for easy baskets. Four Miners shared scoring honors. Mike Alvey, Bruce MacNaughton, Howard Davidson and Scott Toly all had ten points on the night while Brad Godd had nine. J.Y. Trying to avenge a scorer's error which had given jthe Dugway junior varsity a win in their previous encounter, the Mini Miners fell 57-45. Brad Dearden led the Park City junior varsity with 15 points. chelae. JVr, volar ic.rhtvv oun ujrrh rrv, mi r r .' M Chips wall Sandwiches ICE CREAM AVAILABLE other hand. . . 405 Main Street 11:30-6:00 Antiques Second hand merchandtse Consignment. Buy and Trade Paper Now offt riny m:v RECORDS AM) T AIM atmen Lose Twice Park City's matnien had iv. o defeats pinned on them last week, falling to Gran-tsvillo. Gran-tsvillo. 34-23, and topped by Smith Summit. 39-27. High points in the loss to Grantsville were victorious by way of pins for Tom Martinez Mar-tinez in the 132 -pound class 1 15-pound Hick Provost and Mike Heed in the 167-pound division. Other winners for Park City included Doug Dean in ihe 119 pound class, 126 pound Croy Provost, and .'('iitt Martinez in the 155-pomii! 155-pomii! competition. Against South Summit, Tom Martinez and Rick Provost repeated their per formances, winning by pins, and were joined by heavyweight Hay Owens who was also victorious by virtue of a pin. Cory Provost and Mike Heed w ere winners by way of decisions. Laurie Baker Promoted To 'C mam Team With barely a month on the U.S. national Development ream behind her, Laurie Baker, 18, Marblehead, Ma. has been promoted to the national '(" Team. Said U.S. Assistant Alpine Director Karen Korfanla of Baker's promotion. "Laurie has moved to the t" Team on the basis of her consistent performances per-formances in the Farah Canadian-American series taring January and her steady improvement since the December races." Korfanla also announced the addition of six Canadian-"Wnerican Canadian-"Wnerican series racers to the U.S. Development Team. The 3 women and 3 men are: Joan Crane, 18,, Plymouth, My.; Belinda Brownell, 17, spen, Co.; Maureen Quinn, 21, Mission Ridge, Wa.; Mephen Hienzsch, 20, University of. Colorado; Richard Briggs, North Conway, Con-way, N.H.; and James Plunkett, Stratum Mt., Vt. Ski Ctotfies Back Books S "11 j Women Return On Upswing After an early January World Cup racing circuit marked by disappointing finishes and capped by the untimely injury of Olympic Bronze medalist Cindy Nelson, the women of the U.S. Alpine Team returned to the United States on February 3 on an upswing. The final days of the European January-February January-February races fairly hummed hum-med with consistently strong finishes and the emergence of new American faces in top ten positions. Of the original seven women sent over just after the New Year, Nelson's season was abruptly ended by an accident at Garmisch on January 11. For the additional ad-ditional six, January 20 marked the end of the doldrums with each woman producing at least one top ten finish in the seven faces from that date forward. On January 20, Becky Dorsey, 19, Wenham Ma. broke the blahs with a fifth only eight-tenths of a second out in the Giant Slalom at Arosa, Switzerland. The first six places in this cliffhanger won by Switzerland's Morerod in 1:19.66 were separated by only tenths of a second. Four days later Susie Patterson, 21, Sun Valley, Id. turned in the best U.S. Downhill performance since Nelson's fourth at Zell-am-See December 21 with an eighth at Crans Montana, Switzerland, her personal best this World Cup series. Fellow Sun Valley racer Christin Cooper, 17, who turned tur-ned in a fourteenth from the bottom of the third seed at Schruns, Austria on January 19 and a sixteenth at Arosa scored a pair of slalom top ten finishes with a tenth at Crans Montana January 26 and a ninth at St. Gervais, France on the 28th. The following day, the American women logged a trio in the upper rankings for the first time since Val d'Isdere's Giant Slalom in early December. Viki Flecken-stein, Flecken-stein, 21, Ny. finished fourth in the Giant Slalom at St. Gervais a scant half second behind winner Monika Kaserer's 1:34.87. Abbi Fisher, 19, South Conway N.H. duelled teammate Dorsey Dor-sey to a seven-eight placing separated by only one one-hundredth one-hundredth of a second. Closing out the series, Mary Seaton, 20, Hancock, Mi. notched her personal World Cup best of this season with a seventh in the Slalom just short of two seconds behind Claudia Giordani's winning time of 1:40.44 at Maribor, Yugoslavia on February 1. The following day, Flecken-stein Flecken-stein captured her second top ten finish in four days with a seventh in Maribor's Giant Slalom. The last two weeks clearly demonstrated that for the first time in a long time new American faces have emerged at the World Cup level to demonstrate demon-strate the depth of talent on the U.S. Team and the breadth of ability to produce consisteotly strong racing finishes. After returning to the United States, national Team members will move to Sun Valley, Id. for the National Alpine Championships Champion-ships February 14-15. Race Relocated The 1977 ski racing season may go down in history as the season of musical race sites due to unusual weather patterns all over the United States. U.S. Assistant Alpine Director Karen Kor-fanta Kor-fanta announced last week another change in national racing schedule, the relocation and rescheduling of the U.S. National Alpine Championships later this month. "The Nationals, previously planned for Heavenly Valley Calif. February 16-18, have been moved to Sun Valley, Id. February 14-15," said Kor-fanta. Kor-fanta. "Racing events for year's U.S. Championships will be giant slalom and slalom only for both men and women. Due to lack of adequate snow cover on FIS approved downhill courses, the downhill event will be waived for 1977," she concluded. REPORT by Brown College Basketball After several weeks of upsets in collegiate basketball's Top 10, things settled down this past week as all but one team were victorious in their outings. Marquette, ranked 6th last week, was unable to hold off 12th ranked Cincinnati. The Bearcat's Mike Jones provided the lift needed as he contributed 20 points to the winning effort. Rounding out Top 10 action, which was rather uneventful, the undefeated top ranked San Francisco Fran-cisco Dons defeated Nevada-Reno 98-81; third rated Kentucky had little trouble with Vanderbilt 113-73; Nevada-Las Vegas nipped Rutgers 89-88; Atlantic Coast Conference leader Wake Forest, ranked fifth this week beat Virginia 80-72; Michigan, down to number seven, had little trouble with Ohio State 93-72; Alabama, also bouncing back from a loss, beat LSU 77-70; Louisville defeated Memphis State 111-92 and Top 10 newcomer Minnesota blew by Northwestern, North-western, who last week upset Michigan, 79-53. NBA In NBA action this week, it was the Atlantic Division leaders, the Philadelphia 76ers, dethroning the Pacific Division front runners Los Angeles Lakers 102-97 in a game played Sunday Sun-day afternoon. The win kept the 76ers seven games in front of the second place Boston Celtics, who had little trouble with the trade riddled rid-dled Buffalo Braves 113-97. The Lakers dropped to a half a game behind the Portland Trail Blazers who were idle. The Central Division leading Washington Bullets increased their lead to two games over the second place Cleveland Cabaliers as the Bullets nipped Seattle Saturday 109-106. In the Midwest Division, the Denver Nuggets, the team which, is having little trouble staying atop their division, were taught a lesson in humility as the Phoenix Suns trio of Ron Lee, Alvin Adams and Paul Westphal combined for 88 points and romped rom-ped over the Nuggets 115-104. Rookie Ron Lee described by Denver coach Larry Brown as looking like "All World first team," connected for a career high of 30 points. Golf For the first time in three weeks there is a different dif-ferent name in golf headlines. Instead of Tom Watson we see the name of Bruce Lietzke at the head of the standings column at the end of the Hawaiian Open. The 25 year old Lietzke at the field with a 72 hold total of 273, 15 under par. Lietzke, a play-off winner at Tucson four weeks ago, shot his first sub par round of the year en route to the $48,000 first prize win. Tom Watson, tournament winner the past two weeks, finished fifth with a 278 score. Boxing After winning an Olympic gold medal in Montreal Mon-treal the past summer, a contented Sugar Ray Leonard stated he had accomplished all he wanted wan-ted to in the world of boxing. But Saturday afternoon after-noon in the Baltimore Civic Center, the 20 year old Olympian, armed with snapshots of his 3 year old son taped to his sox and 9,000 hometown fans, gave the stubborn Luis Vega a lesson in the art of boxing as Leonard won a unanimous six round decision and his first professional bout as well. Brought out of his short retirement by his families need of financial support, Leonard had Vega in trouble from the second round on as Sugar Ray collected approximately $38,000 from his win. World Cup Skiing Unhampered by the driving snow, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark skied to his fifth straight slalom victory of the year and the World Cup point lead. The downhill scheduled for Saturday was cancelled can-celled due to a problem we should be so lucky to have, severe snow storms. Following Stenmark in the points standings is Franz Klammer, who due to the poor (?) weather was unable to compete com-pete in his speciality. Tennis The big story in professional tennis this week was Chris Evert's reassertion' that she, not the , young headline grabbing Martina Navratilova, is the world's premier woman tennis player. Playing under great pressure, due to Miss Navratilova's recent dominance of the Women's pro circuit, Miss Evert showed that she has not lost any of those skills which got her where slje is, as she avenged her earlier to lose to the young Czech in two sets 6-2, 6-4. |