The History of the Look Pivot with SkiTalk.com
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Phil Pugliese and Dennis Gaspari take you through the history of The Look Pivot ski binding.
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0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Phil introduces the Dennis Gaspari from Rossignol Headquarters in Park City Utah
0:45 - Going over the history starting with the 1960's
1:00 - Defining the Look Pivot with the combination of the toe and heel design
1:10 - Describing the Nevada Toe and Grand Prix Heel previous to the Look Pivot of the 60s
2:30 - Going into the 1970s with N17 and Chrome, Red and Blue colors offered
3:05 - Introducing the N37, N57, & N77
3:20 - The introduction of brakes, centering device on the heel, and a little more contact
3:30 - Getting into DIN standards
4:30 - The N77 is where the Look loyalty started to grow through popularity and safety
5:38 - The 1980s Heel is slightly less vertical
5:55 - Started seeing new brake designs
6:30 - Talking about the Sensor Toe along with elongated toe wings, still had toe height adjustment
7:15 - Describing the unusual binding from the time the 19, a Jr version that was a 2-6 DIN
7:45 - Phil brings up the metal cup in the heel for getting the binding off, coined the Pug-Cup
8:00 - The 1980s are being broken down into two segments, the early 80s and now...
8:38 - The mid and late 1980s with changes in technology
8:42 - Introducing the XM Look, with the toe that comes up, and AFD that adjusted up and down and a more compact heel.
9:05 - Graphic showing how the toe and heel worked together on this binding
9:25 - Dennis and Phil describe how the pure vertical release was key in this development and consistent with contemporary Look Pivot designs
9:42 - Getting into the ZRC, ZP, ZL more streamlined and lighter
10:00 - Phil and Dennis get excited about all the great ski graphics that looked good with these bindings
10:35 - The 1990s The ZR toe went on a diet
10:53 - Introducing the Forza Color options as well as the modern single pivot toe
11:13 - A lot of excitement around Plake and Tomba with the Forza collection
11:46 - Discussion of the different DIN ranges offered at that time, including a 3-10 and Z3 for ladies with a DIN 9
12:09 - Getting into the TT from the Mid 90s
12:36 - Seeing the influence of Rossignol's purchase of Geze
12:47 - Getting into the late 90s the Rossignol FKS toe had the dual pincher design, and Look getting into sliding AFDs
13:40 - Talking about the longevity of these designs
14:15 - Getting into the 2000s
14:20 - a moment of silence for the Look Pivot going away temporarily at the turn of the century
14:30 - Dennis describes the time when the Look Pivot just went away, and how he and others made sure the brands importance was recognized and got the Pivot back by 2009
15:50 - Phil and Dennis talk about Rossignol FXS and Look Pivot co-existing
17:05 - When the 12 and 18 came out for competition along with the 15
18:00 - The push from Pugski.com to bring back the 15
18:10 - Dennis talks about the importance of bringing back the 15.
19:00 - The 15 came back in the Forza, Raw and Gold
19:30 - The dropping of the Rossi FKS and getting behind Look Pivot as a brand 2015-16
21:00 - Discussion about how much Look has improved but is still based off the original concept
22:00 - Look's presence on the freestyle competition tour
22:40 - Mention of Crasheur from Bozeman Mt custom painting Look Pivots
23:00 - Phil and Dennis banter about their experience with Look Pivots
23:38 - Dennis talks about custom designs with hydro-dip
24:25 - Phil talks about the brand loyalty
25:50 - Skiing is Fun!
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The first set of skis I bought with my own money were Look Nevada's on Olin Mark 1's and the new Nordica injection molded boots. In the 80's I sold Dynastar, Lange and Look alongside the Geze's as the cornerstone of my ski shop. In an area where K2 was king and they marketed Marker. Sold a lot of the ZR's with upper Dynastar glass models and Fisher Flex skis and those who simply wouldn't buy anything else. I still have a Geze G70 demo board that can demonstrate upward release. I also have a pair of Blizzard SL's [early 90's] with my last pair of Red/white ZR's. Only we called them turntables. Doing heel release tests on them were opposite of practically every other binding. IT WAS SMOOTH! A feature that I think saved me from at least not suffering from any muscle damage due to rapid deceleration leading to a release of the heel caused by Cascade concrete and excessive speed. I have the Rosi 120 and the FKS in orange currently. Both were remounted recently for new boots and passed the tests perfectly. I am glad to learn that Dennis saved the brand name and how he did it. That took some guts but it proved the name had value in the market. I knew Rosi would use the Geze designs under their name and I was fine with that but worried that Look would be lost. Probably ending small independent shops with it. I am more impressed that in bringing back the Pivot that they continued to offer a single pivot and the pincer toe piece as options. I am getting new skis Monday and have been 'Looking' at my options. What I would like to see in the future is a model of pivot bindings that has a tighter range of din settings and focus on selling the customer one that has the skier in the middle for optimal spring performance for the user: 3-9 range for 5-7 din setting as an example. And get away from male, female, racer designations to describe models. Nice collection Phil. Thanks for jogging my memory.
Wow! Thank you! Thumbs up, very interesting.
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9 ай бұрын
Thank you too! A lot went into it, securing all the bindings.
My 1975 setup- Hexcel Competition skis, Look Nevada bindings (with safety straps) and Nordica Astral Slalom boots (aka the banana boot). And of course stretch pants. HaHa. So thankful for the ski technology progress>
Terrific - next that needs bindings - probably going Pivot.
I bought a new pair of boots with GW soles so changed my Demo bindings to Look 12GW . I can’t believe how much it has improved the ski performance . Or is just a placebo effect?
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10 ай бұрын
Not at all. The low stack height and short mount distance definitely enhance performance.
@Kandalf8989
6 ай бұрын
I used to ski on Marker Jester all the time, all of my life, in 2021 i switched to Look Pivot 12, and probably will never look back to something else, the flex from a short mount base and overall stiffness, gives a ton a difference, i'am still going to ski on my second pair with marker jesters, but look pivot indeed makes ski handle better. Honestly i think Marker Griffon/Jester/Jester Pro and Look Pivot 12/15/18 is the best alpine bindings on the market now.. PERIOD..
The look rep didnt seem to have much knowledge of the history. I would have loved to hear more about the early 2000s on why they stopped making them. I use to search ebay to find used pivots for my park skis.
Great info but the background music is very distracting
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5 ай бұрын
We have lowered it.