Ski Tuning Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Will from the Outspokin Bicycle and Sport shop located in Newbury, New Hampshire. Today we are just going to just give you a couple of ski tuning tips. Ski tuning is kind of a personal thing. Once you get into it you will probably find you like it a certain way, but there is some basic parameters to understand. First of all the new shape skis require a much sharper edge than the old school skis use to. As long as you are not catching air all the time in the terrain park, and don't really need a sharp ski. It is really important to maintain your edges to a higher level of sharpness than maybe in years past. It is really going to make for a much more enjoyable day of skiing. You tend to use all of your edge on you skis nowadays so that is really why we tend to suggest something like that. And also todays skis are really super high performance. It use to just be race skis were high performance, rec skis were so so it didn't matter as much. But part of why these new shape skis ski so well is actually the level of tuning that they come to you from the factory. So it is really important to maintain that factory tune as best possible, because that is how they are designed to ski. Just understanding that could be really helpful. You really should not just let them go every couple of years get them tuned. You will really enjoy that big investment you made by maintaining them. So when you are maintaining them you can usually just use a diamond stone to keep your edge sharp, and you would just run it along your edge, and you would spend more time on your side edge, not on your base edge. Just to keep the burrs off, and kind of polish your edge there. And then really you can wax your skis every time you go out. That is how often you can do it, it is not often that we all do it every time,. but it is never going to hurt a ski to over wax it. So it is important when you are waxing to pick the proper wax though. So don't wax this week for next weekends ski trip if it is going to be a completely different temperature. So if you don't know what you are up against wait until the last minute to do your waxing, because wax is very temperature sensitive. It is also sensitive to fresh snow as opposed to old snow. The fresh snow has sharper crystals, wax needs to be a little harder, and scraped a little thinner on your base. Little things like that. So I guess the biggest tip about tuning your skis is to make sure you do tune them, and the more your tune them the more you will understand how to tune better, and you will understand why a good tune is so important. And those are just a few tips for ski tuning."