Does buttering ruin your skis?

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ClosesChide

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Just bought a pair of arv 96's to get into the park skiing

I love buttering with my racing slalom skis that are sooo stiff so I can't imagine how happy I will be buttering two noodles

Do butters ruin your skis tho? Do they lose their factory shape and break after buttering?
 
they're stressful on the skis but unless your skis have a defect or they're already almost dead, they're not going to just snap. buttering is part of normal use for a ski like the arv96... just a particularly intensive use! don't worry about it
 
No. If anything they will cause slight delam in tips/tails but I think that comes more from impacts bc on most park skis If you look at a slo mo video the tips will flatten to the ground at impact from just flex.
 
I spend a lot of time buttering and a couple of years ago, I saw the tips delamming on about half the skis I tested for Roofbox. Since then I've had fewer issues, not sure if that's because of what I've been testing or just luck though. I also find that some skis lose their rebound over time, some also lose their shape (by over time here, I mean under 30 days because I almost never get to ski anything for longer than that).

However, skis are meant to be used so it's kind of a pointless question. I mean rails definitely break 100% of skis eventually, but you wouldn't not ski park rails because eventually your skis might break...
 
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