DIY Ski Tuning Made Easy | Expert Insights For Everyone
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In this latest episode of the Big Picture Skiing podcast, we're on a mission to demystify ski edge tuning, proving just how simple and achievable it is for all skiers. Many shy away from DIY tuning, but we're here to change that. Join us as we break down the process into easy steps, applicable to both new and seasoned skis. Our guest, Chris Hillier, world-class ski tuner and owner of Sidecut Tuning, will expertly guide us. These steps are so user-friendly that the required tools fit in a toiletry case, ready for any ski trip. Tune in for actionable insights, pro tips, and a better, safer, and more enjoyable mountain experience!
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The Big Picture Skiing Travellers Kit (Polishing Kit) Suggested in this podcast
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Videos:
How to tune the base edge
• How to use Base Bevel ...
How to polish the side edge
• Episode 10: Edge polis...
Using Diamond Stones
• How to use Diamond Stones
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Great way to start the day, thanks for this update. Snow in Utah already!
Exactly what I needed, thank you!
Glad it helped!
Thanks for a inspiring video. Wish it had been around years ago while I didn't tune my skis regularly because at the shop it was expensive and doing it yourself seamed to be a daunting task. It's not. Just get a few tools and don't make it complicated. Once you feel the difference you will never go back.
Nanox ski wax is really awesome. So easy to use and it lasts. Feels good to be gliding past every one else when traversing between slopes even at the end of the week.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A base bevel guide only applies an accurate 1 degree (or whatever the choice of degree) to a base edge if the base is flat. All base bevel guides (and side edge guides) reflect the degree from the surface of the ski base. So if the base at the tip let's say, is severely concave you will not get an accurate cut. So I would say first determine if your skis are flat then, if not, get them ground at a reputable shop. Todays skis are notorious for being concave at the tip and tail. Skis are built in a press with heat and compression, a lot of it. So when the ski comes out of the mold it can cure at different rates. Humidity, ambient air temp, where they are in the stack of finished product can all effect that curing. You may get lucky and have a flat pair out of the box. But with today's fat tips and narrow waists on some skis the curing is different from tip to tail. In the wider sections they have a tendency to suck in at the center and not so much under foot because of the different curing times given the varying amount of material(s).I could go deep here but for your audience Gellie, beginning tuners, they must have a flat ski to get the desired result and improve their skiing by having a consistent ride. I aways recommend getting the ski flattened and bevels set by professionals to begin. At that time the skier should buy the base and side bevels at the degree set, and a progression of stones so they can maintain that tune. From there the learning curve is easier and not daunting.
Wow great to learn the details. I just started tuning my own ski's this season. I was never realizing how quick the edges go until I started turning a lot and not just bombing it 😂 definitely saves money!! NZ ski slopes are like east coast USA/Canada. Thanks for coming this video.
You’re welcome
Awesome, a question tho, I use diamond files (blue and red, dmt) and I feel they are had it, worn out real fast...are they still working or have I 'set' edges and just don't notice the same 'work noise' anymore?
Cheers⛷️
You may need to do two things. Get a replacement strip of the diamond stone. Sidecut does sell these for their guides. Or you may need to use the file now and most probably remove the sidewall of the skis!
I ski sometimes with an 84 year old guy he was on the Middlebury College ski team in the 1950's. He said I tune my edges every morning and you should too. That was two years ago, I would do my edges once a week. I ski five days a week when the season is on, the snow here in northern NH is brutal on the edges of my carving skis. That daily tuning makes a difference. 3 degree side edge .7 base. Were still a couple months out before the season starts.
Funday !! The season still running here at Araucanía, Chile
With daily tuning the question comes to mind of the newbie tuner…. How many tunes (seasons) can be done before the metal edge material is reduced to the point you have to get new skis?
If you follow the suggestions here and do the polishing with the diamond stone between using the files you’ll get many seasons. However if you ski most days like an instructor does and have a bad low snow season, you may only get one maybe one and half seasons if tuning regularly.
Australia was looking like a challenge this year.
It was
Hi tom
Thanks for great videos
in your video about dragging hans on snow,
I tried your drill and it worked excellent but others say it looks somehow that I'm back seated
Can tell me where is problem ?
should i bend forward more from waist?
Our don't bend my knees more for reaching ground?
Or should i try lean while body?
Where the backseated look come from?
Thank you tom
You’re possibly doing what one of the students in the video did. Bending both legs. The outside legs starts pretty straight during the turn. And you want to push it almost behind you.
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Thank You Tom, great explanation
But i have one question I've heard specially in race the top of outside ski should come somehow more forward than inside ski,
In this case then pushing heal to back of hip will be done how very difficult,
Is It Correct At First? And secondly if yes it mean we should push foot behind hip and at same time push outside half of body forward to have tips of skis the parallel?