How much do rails damage skis?
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Cahal
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OP, sliding rails it self without swaps or spins doesn't necessarily damage your edges to much. It's when you really start Scissoring and setting that back edge that you'll notice them starting to round off. I personally do allot of front swaps so my one edge is super round and cracked (I don't switch my skis on my other foot). Although you can learn from that mistake and switch your skis around so that your wearing in your edges evenly. It's kind of an odc thing though if you don't have matching graphics. Hopefully that helps you out.
OregonDead
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5684988:Lemuel said:
Chronic wides look sick tho.
13487849:hughlorin said:
Yeah dude you're not alone. This is just a totally normal part of super beat up park skis.
Hell I can give you a great story on this one:
I was one of the guys that wrote the Freeski level 1 course in Canada. As such, I was also the guy that certified the people who were going to certify the instructors. I think the title was "Master Course Conductor".
I remember this like it was yesterday. There was this other dude they assigned to help me because there was so many people. He was put on the same level as me, and was an old freestyler who came from the CFSA. He thought he was hot shit, and I was just some little park kid who was lucky they let in.
We got into an argument at one point with the class if rails damage your skis. He said that anyone who hits rails should be absolutely able to ski normally, and showed me how beautiful his turns were. I debated the fact that sure he could turn great on ice, but that is because he isn't an actual legit park skier. He didn't ride rails every single day all season long super hard. The argument got pretty heated and at a certain point he said "Give me your skis, I'll show you."
I gladly accepted, showed him my great ski instructor turns on his beautifully tuned sticks and got to laugh as he almost fell over repeatedly screaming "Tabarnak these skis are destoroyed, this is impossoble!"
Of course in the end they still wrote me off as a stupid park kid and I gave up that gig to start working in parks.
Even when I used to compete in halfpipe I would always keep a second set of skis. Rail damage severely hinders your ability to keep an edge in icy conditions, and as far as I can tell there won't ever be a solution for that. Whatever, its just part of it and rails are really fucking fun.
macavity
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13489812:Mr.Bishop said:
what an ass, I would have loved to see that happen lol. people don't understand how big of an effect gear has on skiing performance. it reminds me of when I went to a bootfitter who was explaining how having a well fitted boot with regards to your skiing style helps immensely with performing on the snow. he told me "a lot of people like to say it's the indian, not the arrow... but those people are talking bullshit." obviously it does come down to skiing ability and not just gear, but even torin would be having some trouble if you threw him on some rental boots and a pair of old ass afterbangs and told him to hit the half pipe.
I wouldn't fuck with a pair of beat up park skis in the pipe either, that sounds like certain death. I guess skiing shitty on ice is the price you have to pay for hitting rails, but who likes skiing on ice anyways? I've never heard anyone say they were excited to go slay some ice. rails are way more fucking fun.
Zimmy
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13492792:Big_Mtn said:
Yeah.. I am formally going back to the old usage of the word as of a few days ago. I really didn't want to post this img into this thread or mention anything about HC, but anyways..
TheHamburglar
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Watch out for the rails in Gnarshmallow, they'll really fuck your shit up
JWillySkeez
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13714380:A_deprived_skier said:
hello 8 year old
JWillySkeez
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13714609:.otto. said:
It's not the math, it's the reading, I totally missed the post date. Now I look like an ass.
13715387:PeeDuBzz said:
Would you want to ski an icy race course or an icy steep on skis that you use on rails everyday and have fucked up edges? You shouldn't. The people in this thread who know what they are talking about. I would love to see you try to compete on an icy race course on skis that have been destroyed by skiing rails, that would be funny.
13715446:PeeDuBzz said:
That makes sense. I would think most people would have separate skis for racing, but if they don't skiing an icy race course would not be fun on skis with fucked up edges. I think the point is that sliding rails does have an effect on the edging ability of that ski.
13715446:PeeDuBzz said:
I agree. I don't see how someone can fail to know that rails will effect edging ability on skis.
hot.pocket
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13715387:PeeDuBzz said:
grilled_steeze
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I was 13 months old when this was posted. Holy shit.
TheDoughAbides
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13715387:PeeDuBzz said:
Jokes on yooooooooouuuuuuuuuu