Making Stiff Skis Flexy

[justinchapman]

I have a pair of Amplid Antidogmas which are kinda made for big air jumps and super rail smashes. I love them, their super light and fast. The only thing is... THEY'RE STIFF. I want to do butters on them, but they won't move, i have better luck on my powder skis. Anyone have any techniques to BREAK IN SKIS to make them for flexible and easier to butter around?

 

[Spiri7o]

re-mount them six times, always does the trick

 

[fresh_prince]

stick the whole ski in water

 

[KravtZ]

why do you want to ride around on a noodle all day with no stability? Just muscle them around man

 

[B.Quincy]

Have eheath ride them for a few days.

 

[qazwsxedc34]

Be a young Al Roker

 

[Al.Capone]

ride them hard like you don't give a shit. Butter the hell out of them even if it destroys your shins. After 4 s. it worked for me but it took 4 seasons ...

What skis were you on? And how many days do you get in a season?

 

[suup]

Boil them.

I know you don't want your skis rockered but this would make your skis hella flex. Would also compromise the durability of the ski.
https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/366282/Tutorial--Rockering-Skis

 

[Al.Capone]

old K2 extremes, green and purple. I have been riding between 30 an 45 days each season. Now they are almost decambered, perfectly cooked noodles

Sounds like a bombproof ski, that's like around 150 days of hard riding and it sounds like they're still good just super soft.

 

[justinchapman]

So basically just use the hell out of them to get them to flex. Has anyone else tried reshaping skis

 

[Negromancer]

What's more important than having soft flexy skis for buttering is having the right technique and having good boots.

Firstly make sure your boots fit you properly and have a reasonably firm flex, if they're to soft they're just going to fold when you flex into them and no power is going to be transferred into the ski. Also make sure you don't have major heel lift and that your foot is held in place.

When it comes to technique you actually have to really put a lot of effort into it and have a lot of strength. Put all your weight forwards or backwards, don't just half-ass it and do some shitty revert thing, actually put a lot of weight and pressure into the skis.

 

[Park.]

What's more important than having soft flexy skis for buttering is having the right technique and having good boots.

Firstly make sure your boots fit you properly and have a reasonably firm flex, if they're to soft they're just going to fold when you flex into them and no power is going to be transferred into the ski. Also make sure you don't have major heel lift and that your foot is held in place.

When it comes to technique you actually have to really put a lot of effort into it and have a lot of strength. Put all your weight forwards or backwards, don't just half-ass it and do some shitty revert thing, actually put a lot of weight and pressure into the skis.

This, but yyou can always have skis that are just so stiff, they don't really butter/flex much.

 

[Park.]

What's more important than having soft flexy skis for buttering is having the right technique and having good boots.

Firstly make sure your boots fit you properly and have a reasonably firm flex, if they're to soft they're just going to fold when you flex into them and no power is going to be transferred into the ski. Also make sure you don't have major heel lift and that your foot is held in place.

When it comes to technique you actually have to really put a lot of effort into it and have a lot of strength. Put all your weight forwards or backwards, don't just half-ass it and do some shitty revert thing, actually put a lot of weight and pressure into the skis.

This, but yyou can always have skis that are just so stiff, they don't really butter/flex much.