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How To Tune Your Skis

Stan Rey

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In this video I teach you the basics on how to tune your skis.
Regular maintenance of your skis and snowboard is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to improve your on-snow performance.
Having a well tuned skis will not only make you beat all your friends to the bottom but it will also make the hill more enjoyable and safe to shred.

0:00 Intro
0:39 Tools You Will Need For The Job
1:09 Getting Rid of Burrs
3:13 Sharpening Edges
4:31 Polishing Edges
5:24 Waxing
8:50 Scraping & Brushing
11:15 The Sandwich
11:30 Outro

I use locally sourced wax made In Squamish containing environmentally friendly additives. https://www.beaverwax.com
Im tuning my QST 106 mounted one cm ahead of recommended with the new Strive Binding.https://www.salomon.com
Filmed and edited by: https://www.thedontasmedia.com/home

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20 Comments

@iandeans-ski 4 years ago

Instructions unclear. Cheese sandwich is now melted on my skis. Is this fast?

@darkthunder3125 1 year ago

This is the tuning video with the least misinformation. Nice job

@nicholas5396 2 years ago (edited)

Would be cool if you could link to all of the tools for purchase! (Minus the cheese sandwich lol)

@StefanZivkovicMedia 9 months ago

Absolute perfect video on tuning for the average person. Some of em have so much confusing/unnecessary info. Good job on the sandy too

@MrDHCuthill 1 year ago

You forgot to explain why we de-burr with the diamond file! (If you go straight at it with the metal file, you blunt the file on the case-hardened burr chip).
Also: There's the whole job of setting of the race edge angle. (Presuming that's a different video).

@729dave 1 year ago

Nice, just what I was looking for, thanks!

@jonathanpenn1517 1 year ago

haha, loved the video. good tips and so funny.

@cpm881 11 months ago (edited)

As an xc skier, I was told if I used anything but fiberline my skis would explode. Nice to see alpine is more chill with waxing..... Lol.

Cheese sandwich on my STAR WC wax iron.... Straight to jail bro!!

@philsantucci7292 2 years ago

Thank you! Do they still make the dicky Pete file?

@vegas.freund 10 months ago

Perfectly cooked....ha.... good vid bro thanks

@illiam19 1 year ago

Hey Stan. Can you post a list of the tools you use? Brand and item.

@Marcozum68 3 years ago

Hy Stanley and thanks for your very useful video! 2 questions: which is the finesse of the second line and why you do not use the diamond in this case? thanks from Italy

@philiplacey5430 4 years ago

I had a few beers, watched this video and have a question now... It's going to be really cold tomorrow, should I go with the Swiss or stick to Gruyere ?

@truenorthmuskoka9077 7 months ago

Great video. Just one question. Why did you only tune one side of the ski edge?

@rodhoney3989 4 years ago

Which temperature setting did you use to get such a wonderful golden, crispy finish?

@Jp6M 2 years ago

Do you use the factory base and side edge angles?

@keananf 4 years ago

Hi Stanley, would you recommend a warm temp or cold temp brie for moguls?

@saureeeegogo 4 years ago

Reslly nice video, except it didn't cover the one part of waxing I'm still not sure about. How much wax do you leave on the ski? I tend to scrape it as long as nothing comes out of it anymore but I have no idea if that's the right way.