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Show Wednesday, Febraury 23, 1977 THE Stay Tuned By Brown Page 8 - SPORTS REPORT 1 By Peter Najar Wolfe's Repair Shop Choosing a binding correctly is as important as adjusting a binding correctly. An incorrect choice in bindings can give you more problems than you can imagine. The correct approach to choosing a new set of bindings is to be in the correct frame of mind. Figure out what you need in a binding, not what your friends say you need. The first question you should ask yourself is, "How much can I spend?" The next should be, "How good a skier am I? and, "How much will I progress?" The third question is what you would like the binding to do. That is, do you want a bid-ning bid-ning to release upward at the toe or do you think just a standard twist release at the toe and forward for-ward lean at the heel is enough. In choosing a binding, also think about performance. perfor-mance. How much do you really need? A racer or freestyler needs a binding that can take tremendous tremen-dous loads, shocks and stresses. As a result, his spring tension must be high. On the other hand, a beginner has no need for a binding to take repetitive shocks or loads. What he needs is a binding to release smoothly and quickly if the need arises. An intermediate skier needs a binding that falls somewhere in between. He usually skis hard enough to need good anti-shock properties but does not need the extra tension of a high performance perfor-mance binding. Most bindings use a compression spring to effect ef-fect release. The spring of the binding must be compressed for release to occur and for antishock anti-shock properties of the binding to work. The tighter the spring the fasterthe binding will recenter, after a shock is felt. The reason being, the tighter the binding is set the more energy is stored in the spring. If, for example, the binding is set on its lowest setting, the binding will move off-center off-center easily to absorb a shock; but once it's off-center, off-center, the spring hasn't been compressed enough to re-center very quickly. In choosing a binding, find out where the release tension will be set for you. If, for your skiing ability, the binding is set at the low end of the adjustment, it would be better to choose a binding that would allow you to ski it near the middle of the adjustment range, even if it means choosing a binding of lower performance. The above is the reason that most top of the line bindings come in two versions : a regular and a competition model.-The only difference in the bindings is spring strength. The performance is the same. A competition binding is not the best unless it can be skied at an effective release tension. When you finally decide, make sure the binding is of known quality. 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Purtzer, winning his first tournament, finished with a 273 total, 11 under par and to home the $10,000 winner's share of the $200,000 purse Skiing After losing two World Cup downhills in a row, Franz Klammer returned to his winning form as he won his sixth downhill of the year in Loax, Switzerland. In winning the Kandahan Downhill race, rated as one of the easiest on the World Cup circuit, Klammer moved back out in front of defending champion Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden. Klammer now has a total of 195 points to Stenmark's 174. Stenmark, a slalom specialist, did not compete in the race in which Klammer set a track record of one minute, 59.10 seconds. Meanwhile in Sun Valley, Idaho, 19 year old Phil Mahre of White Pass, Wash, had to contend with poor ski conditions as well as lower back injuries in-juries to win the men's giant slalom at the U.S. National Alpine Championships. Mahre's twin brother, Steve, was in second place less than a second behind front runner Phil. NBA After another week of NBA action, the standings stan-dings have stayed relatively the same as the front runners in each division have maintained their positions. In a come-from-behind victory, it was the Philadelphia 76'ers, led by Julius Erving, over the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-111. Behind at one point at the end of three periods by 22 points, the 76'ers battled back to go ahead by one point with less than a minute left to play. Denver, still sitting atop the Midwestern Division, had little trouble with Atlanta as they won 111-95. In a. game involving the other two division leaders, the Washington Bullets and the Los Angeles Lakers, it was the Kareem Abdul Jab-bar Jab-bar led Lakers holding off a late rally by the Bullets to win 108-101. Tennis In men's tennis this weekend, Jimmy Connors, whose game in the past few weeks has not been up to par due to the death of his father, ran into more bad luck Sunday as he tore a knee muscle in his left leg in the finals of a World Championship Champion-ship Tennis Tournament match against Dick Stockton. Connors was leading the match 6-5 in the first set when it became apparent that he was unable to continue and had to concede to Stockton who came away with $30,000 in first prize money. In women's tennis, the world's top two players faced off against each other and once again Chris Evert reasserted herself as the world's premiere woman tennis player as she defeated Martina Navratilova in three sets 6-2, 2-6, and 6-1. The victory was worth $20,000 to Miss Evert. College Basketball At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this past week's collegiate basketball was once again filled with upsets as it has been all season long. It seems that the number one Dons of San Francisco are the only charmed team as they have gone through twenty seven games with no defeats. This past week it was Loyola, Calif, losing 65-57 and Pepperdine also losing 81-73. Kentucky, rated second, also came through the week with two victories as they defeated Florida 104-78 and LSU 90-76. Third ranked UCLA, after defeating Oregon St. 89-76, ran into the upset-minded upset-minded Univ. of Oregon. For the second time this year, Oregon pasted a loss on the Bruins, the score this time 64-55. In further upsets it was number four Alabama losing to Tennessee 92-89; number five Michigan losing to Indiana 73-64, but coning back to beat Iowa 91-80 and Minnesota 89-70; Wake Forest, rated seventh, lost to Virginia Tech 98-97 in overtime after beating Davidson earlier in the week 70-68; number 8 Louisville, after losing a heartbreaker to Nevada-Las Vegas last week, came up on the short end of the stick again against Memphis St. 87-77; number nine Marquette made it three in a row this week as they lost to Detroit 64-63 and Wichita St. 75-64; and to round out the upset listings, it was 10th ranked Cincinnati being handed han-ded a loss by Rutgers 89-70. Number 6 Nevada-Las Nevada-Las Vegas joined San Francisco and Kentucky in getting through the week without a loss as they defeated Pan American 135-106 and Portland St. 112-96. THE Park Git;, Utah BARTENDER PHOTO'S STILL AVAILABLE & SKI PHOTOGRAPHY COME BY & SEE OUR NEW CINEMA SKI SHOW M CINEMkSKI 523 MAIN STREET 649-9431 m (OWNER) |