**Grinding Cement***

tay03usa

tay03usa

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you see it in all of the videos now. but i would never do that to my skis. have any of you guys done it? how does it compare to a box or rail? did it fuck up your skis?? just wonderin
 
the reason why you see it in vids is bc those guys are pros which means they have contracts which mean they get free shit which means they can mess up what ever they have and they'll just get new stuff, for free-thats why you go pro!

and no i havent but im looking forward to it once i get new skis, when ever that will be
 
concrete/cement would have to be the most damaging out of any surface available.

if you arent spancerised and if you want to be able to use those skis again, don't grind concrete..
 
Obviously its rougher than a box?? Kinda common sense that it fucks bases up i dont think when they go to film on a concrete ledge they wonder if they r gunna fuck up their skis!!
 
i'm thinking about trying it this year and i believe the trick is to wait until the concrete ices up so there's a nice smooth layer over it
 
i tried it at the end of last season on a crappy pair of pocket rockets. I expected to get at least seven or eight slides before the skis were seriously messed up, but after four hits, my uphill edges were totally falling off. So ripped them completely off and it was considerably easier to slide.
 
if its smooth concrete, and you ice it up and put snow on it you can get away with minimal damage. and i hate sliding ledges because it looks easier but actually is harder (at least to me).
 
when reading freeze a while ago something came up where pro's actually get bonus' for having shots of ledge slides published on top of getting new stuff. this is because people go out and try it and then ruin thier skis that way they need to buy another pair. no joke.
 
i slid a concrete ledge and it didnt mess up my skis that bad because we waxed the ledge up and then put some crisco on it
 
i've slid a few ledges in my day. and by that i mean i have tried 3 and gotten 2 or them. my skis were undamaged (well if they were my mountain skis yes i would call them damaged but they were my urban skis) they got a few scratches and the edges are way gnarly now but they are fine. oh ya they are original Fujees.
 
There's this nifty substance called wax that helps in that department. But I wouldn't recommend doing ledges without urban skis.
 
haha nah, you could grind cement. It just probably wouldn't be as much fun, and you'd probably bail a lot, and sooner or later a bag would get ripped open, and you'd be covered in the stuff, and it would get mixed with the snow and harden...
 
This is what you do.

Go on Ebay.

Find some cheeeep ass and possibly already fucked up skis, something like a '04 1260 or shit.. find a pair of 99 or '00 1080s or 720s.

Grind the fuck out of them.

I am yet to do this, but once I do it will be sweet because I wont have to fuck up my new Rossi Scratches..
 
Ive done it before looks for smooth ledges and its not too bad on your skis, but I got free ones this year so i dont really care
 
i didnt grind a ledge, but the outrun for a rail i did was into a parking lot, and the surface was alot like rough cement, and basically peeled the bottoms of my fujatives
 
cement is an ingredient in concrete.

you mix cement, water, aggregates, and possibly some admixtures....cure for 28 days...and concrete!
 
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