Prepping and Shaping a New Ski - What Everyone should do before skiing on their new skis

How to Prepare skis for Season

How to Sharpen skis at home

In this video I go over the full preparation of a new ski. This includes pulling sidewall, shaping the tip and tail, base bevel and shaping the top sheet. I then tune the ski for the first time, cutting in my preferred edge angles and smoothing it out with diamond stones so it is ready to ski.

00:00 Intro
00:36 Tools
00:59 Base Bevel
04:31 Shaping the Tip and Tail
10:42 Pulling Sidewall and 2nd Edge
15:51 Shaping the Top Sheet
17:06 First Tune
23:12 Overview
23:39 Common Mistakes
25:50 Ski Testing

How Do I prep my skis to start the season?

I hand tune my skis, this preparation is necessary to expose the edge from the sidewall and second edge so that I can effectively tune my skis.

What do I need to do to a new ski?

This process generally takes 20-30 minutes per edge on a retail ski. On a race ski this process may take you an hour per edge.

I do not get into waxing or preparing the base of the skis int his video. However I always wax my skis 4-8 times before using them.

For the day to day tuning video follow this link.

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