How often do you maintain your skis!

What was the last time that you tuned your skis, through my long years of skiing, I discovered that whatever you do to ameliorate your performance on slopes, the most important piece of this building block is to know how to tune your skis to match your style of skiing.

Usually, pro-ski racers tune their skis for themselves before any competition and even in training sessions, I don’t know if you ever watch Formula 1, and especially in preparation for pole positions trial, you will see a bunch of people gathering around the car for tuning and adaptation according to the weather, to the road, to the curve, and to the recommendation of the driver.

It’s extremely important if you are a serious skier, you like challenges, and you have a hunger for high performance in control and speed that you understand in detail what are the components of our skis.

Skis are the same as any piece of equipment that will take you from one place to another, maintenance and tuning are part of the lifetime, security, and performance of your skis.

Let’s start by identifying the main important parts of your skis that might need tuning and maintenance.

The below figure shows the ski composition used for ski construction.

The parts that usually should be taken care of and are maintainable if you are tuning your skis are:

1 -Base.
Their structuring helps a ski or snowboard glide more efficiently by breaking up the suction that forms due to water between your base and the snow.

2 -Steel edges.
The edges of the Ski in between your feet are known as inner edges and the ones on the outside are called outer edges. The inner and outer edges are made of metal, and this is what helps a Skier make turns on the snow. The sharper the edge, the more pronounced is the turn. Sidecut of a Ski.

2 -Sidewalls.
Sidewalls on skis are strips of dense plastic that are incorporated into the outside of the ski core, underneath the top sheet, and above the edges of the base.

1 -Topsheet.
The top layer of a ski is typically a sheet of clear plastic with the ski’s graphics printed on its underside. Laminates: Sheets of reinforcing material—usually metal or epoxy-impregnated fiberglass fabric—layered above and below the core.