 The best overall approach to ski tuning and maintenance is to establish a season long maintenance program.
A regular ski maintenance program will also give you a better
experience on race day. It is important to train the way you race and
to race the way you train. Caring for your skis can give you a distinct
advantage over competitors. Keep the tuning & maintenance process
as simple & uncomplicated as possible so you can reproduce winning results time and again.Daily maintenance: Allocate 20-30 minutes per day, per pair (assuming 0 damage) to maintain your skis. 1. Dry off your skis and binding/plate combination 2. Use a brass brush, tip to tail, to clean out the ski’s structure of wax & dirt. 3. Use a Fibertex-like pad from tip to tail to “re-fresh” the structure. 4. Perform a wax & hot scrape cleaning (cleans dirt from base every day); scrape and brush while hot. 5. Apply training wax, scrape your edges and sidewalls of wax; let cool. 6. Using your side edge file guide, re-polish all 4 side edges (medium to fine diamond stones as well as polishing stones). 7. Scrape, brush, scrape, followed by a light pass with fibertex and fiberlene. 8. Apply training wax, scrape your edges and sidewalls of wax; let cool overnight. 9. Scrape, brush, scrape followed by a light pass with fibertex before training. Use protective straps for base and edge protection for transport from wax room to slopes. |