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I'm planning to give alpine a try after +15 years of snowboarding/skiing. I bought a new Prior ATV, Catek bindings, and Deeluxe boots. Over the past year I've pretty much read everything on this forum and on Carvers Almanac. I plan on getting professional instruction from the start. In preparation for this season I tried on my new gear in the living room with modest stance angles... I never realized how awkward even modest increases in stance angle feel. Now I'm wondering if this is really for me... Question 1: how do you get up off the ground at these stance angles - seriously? Question 2: If I sit on my butt (both feet in bindings), the knee on my back leg feels like it going to tear due to the stance angle. Again, I'm just gently transitioning from standing position to sitting on my butt - I can't imagine what would happen in an actual fall. I'm not using an extreme angle - it's around 35 degrees. I feel this torque in my back knee at angles above 20 degrees when I sit on my butt. How do you guys do this? Is it because you use approx 60 degrees and so sitting on you butt is impossible? I am really worried about damaging my knee. Thanks for your help!

Bomber is out of the standard TD3 (I'm not sure I want step-ins). I ordered Cateks but I haven't heard anything for almost 3-weeks (charged my cc right away though). No response to my emails and their voice message system is full. I saw the other threads w/ same situation - did anybody ever eventually receive their order??? Season winding down fast - can I get TD3's somewhere else, or should I just try the step-in version?