How do you take off your skis?

you guys use your poles? ha, dorks!!

only time that's cool is if youre an old school euro fuck skiing in a beret with long poles and cigarette burning, butt wiggling gracefully down the slope, sorry, the piste

or if you jam both heelpieces at once with your poles so you pop out of your skis at once and don't break stride, just keep walking into the bar
 
13016425:snoopzilla said:
Pole for the first one, then stomp the other one with my boot.
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this. i heard somewhere stomping on your binding with your ski is bad for the base but i have no clue if its true. now it is just a habit engrained into my brain.
 
13016498:b-kul said:
this. i heard somewhere stomping on your binding with your ski is bad for the base but i have no clue if its true. now it is just a habit engrained into my brain.
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This exactly. Say you have just paid for a nice base grind and stone grind you don't want to be stepping on a binding. You will damage the base. Parks skis who cares as they get trashed but nice skis I always avoid stepping on the binding if I can.
 
13016498:b-kul said:
this. i heard somewhere stomping on your binding with your ski is bad for the base but i have no clue if its true. now it is just a habit engrained into my brain.
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OH NO! NOT THE BASE! TAKE MY LIFE BUT DONT SCRATCH MY BASES!

A good base can take a beating and a cheap base is a cheap base. I jib rocks on the sides of the trails. My bases can get fucked.

#YOLO
 
Someone should post the video where the kid slides a tube, throws down his poles, and walks out of his bindings.
 
Stomp right binding with left ski, stomp left binding with right boot.

This actually took some serious thought.
 
I butter on one ski at a time, and make them both pop off.

If anyone has ever made the mistake of trying to butter on one ski, they know how that goes
 
Stomp my left binding w/ ski, then the right one with boot.

Unless I'm teaching, in which case I let my kids stab them with my poles.
 
13016560:theabortionator said:
OH NO! NOT THE BASE! TAKE MY LIFE BUT DONT SCRATCH MY BASES!

A good base can take a beating and a cheap base is a cheap base. I jib rocks on the sides of the trails. My bases can get fucked.

#YOLO
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Fuck that I actually like to care for my skis. I'm so pissed if I forget and stamp on my bindings. I always laugh when I get skis in and the base is fucked right behind the heel piece. It takes 1 second to use a pole and saves you so much base work.
 
13016759:tomPietrowski said:
Fuck that I actually like to care for my skis. I'm so pissed if I forget and stamp on my bindings. I always laugh when I get skis in and the base is fucked right behind the heel piece. It takes 1 second to use a pole and saves you so much base work.
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What if you don't use poles?

I guess my actual answer to the thread is stomp em. When I am working I have to take my skis off at every feature and I typically have a rake or shovel so no poles. My bases are fine and they see more use that most people's
 
13016772:YoungDaph said:
What if you don't use poles?

I guess my actual answer to the thread is stomp em. When I am working I have to take my skis off at every feature and I typically have a rake or shovel so no poles. My bases are fine and they see more use that most people's
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Reach down and use your hand?

But it's like I said above for park skis who cares they get trashed but nice skis I hate ruining bases just taking my skis off.
 
Your dins aren't tight enough to stay on your sticks whilst performing whirliebirds and "the switch" if you can use youre hand sticks to get out of your foot keeper-inners
 
13016795:AlecDaviesski said:
Your dins aren't tight enough to stay on your sticks whilst performing whirliebirds and "the switch" if you can use youre hand sticks to get out of your foot keeper-inners
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Or you are a week little kid?

Mine are on 13 and I have no issues with a pole.
 
Sometimes I'm in in rush, my bindings jam, and I have to resort to drastic measures like this.


and this

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and this

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and this

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and sometimes even this

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I've got two ways of taking them off. First way is just stomping on the back of them. Pretty standard. Second way is a I lean back and sit on the back of them and use my hands to push both down at the same time. All depends on how much time I have to take them off.
 
13016904:SDrvper said:
if you slide rails stomping off your skis is the least of your worries

also, you know its summer when a thread like this makes it to the top of homepage
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Yeah I agree if you slide rails who cares but if you are like the majority of skiers who don't bash their skis off metal rails why damage your base just taking your skis off?
 
Stomp because I'm not coordinated enough to use my poles. I do sometimes use my poles anyway though, because it's a pain when you stomp FKS's and they flip back up.
 
13016943:SDrvper said:
Ya i was assuming you skied park, but if you ski pow or just ride groomers then ya i can see why you wouldnt wanna damage them
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Exactly. If you spend money looking after your bases the last thing you want to do is stomp on a binding. This thread shows not enough people here demo skis. If you demoed skis regularly you would just get used to using a pole.
 
13016919:tomPietrowski said:
Yeah I agree if you slide rails who cares but if you are like the majority of skiers who don't bash their skis off metal rails why damage your base just taking your skis off?
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rails don't really harm your bases. I slid rails all season and didn't get one scratch
 
13016999:Milhouse said:
rails don't really harm your bases. I slid rails all season and didn't get one scratch
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Well your doing it wrong? How can you not fuck up the base sliding rails. You will for sure destroy any structure underfoot. Sure you may not get big groves but that is not to say your not doing damage.
 
13017007:tomPietrowski said:
Well your doing it wrong? How can you not fuck up the base sliding rails. You will for sure destroy any structure underfoot. Sure you may not get big groves but that is not to say your not doing damage.
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My edges are all rounded out but my bases are fine. Maybe it's the way I slide rails?
 
13017025:Milhouse said:
My edges are all rounded out but my bases are fine. Maybe it's the way I slide rails?
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When did you last have the base structured? A good structure takes a flat base and adds groves to help the base glide. If you slide on rails this structure is destroyed. The heat build up can also help damage the base in terms of accepting wax. So although you may think your doing no harm you are in fact damaging the base every rail you slide. So if you do this stomp those bindings as it makes no difference. But if you care for your base just use a pole.
 
I attempt to use my pole and fail miserably because my heel pieces are so beat up, so I look like an idiot and madly stomp them off
 
13017029:tomPietrowski said:
When did you last have the base structured? A good structure takes a flat base and adds groves to help the base glide. If you slide on rails this structure is destroyed. The heat build up can also help damage the base in terms of accepting wax. So although you may think your doing no harm you are in fact damaging the base every rail you slide. So if you do this stomp those bindings as it makes no difference. But if you care for your base just use a pole.
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I do use a pole. I was just remarking how I didn't think sliding rails really seemed to harm my bases.
 
13016759:tomPietrowski said:
Fuck that I actually like to care for my skis. I'm so pissed if I forget and stamp on my bindings. I always laugh when I get skis in and the base is fucked right behind the heel piece. It takes 1 second to use a pole and saves you so much base work.
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A real man never takes off his skis.

I have never seen any damage ever on any pair of skis I've touched, used, or even looked at. I highly doubt that any damage you think you see on the base from so called stomping is just in your head. Plus why stomp when you can just press? That what I do. Use the opposite ski to press the heal piece and then just use the boot for the other.
 
There's no way in hell that your bases should scratch/gouge from stepping on your heel peice. If you think your skis are that delicate you should probably switch brands.

That being said, I stomp.
 
13016827:Soul_Rider said:
slides rail... and delicately takes them off using poles in order to avoid base damage... makes sense
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That's retard logic. That's the same thing as saying since I have one scratch on my brand new Camaro fuck it I might as well key the car now.
 
13017061:RandelSkis said:
A real man never takes off his skis.

I have never seen any damage ever on any pair of skis I've touched, used, or even looked at. I highly doubt that any damage you think you see on the base from so called stomping is just in your head. Plus why stomp when you can just press? That what I do. Use the opposite ski to press the heal piece and then just use the boot for the other.
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Next time your at a demo take a look at the bases of some of the older demo skis. Stomping on bindings causes loads of nicks right where you stand on the binding. If you see enough skis you will start to see common things people do to skis. You can really tell this is a park site, non park skiers really care about there bases. Hell if I'm racing and anyone even touches my base after I have preped it I will kick off at them. Those oils in your skin have no place on my base.
 
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