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Assistant Speed Coach and Serviceman for the U.S. Ski Team, Josh Applegate, shows us the secret of how to...

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Assistant Speed Coach and Serviceman for the U.S. Ski Team, Josh Applegate, shows us the secret of how to perfectly tune skis.

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How to Tune Your Skis

How to Tune Your Skis Josh Applegate, Assistant Speed Coach/Serviceman of the US Ski Team reveals the recipe for Europe Cup Skis. Right now, I’ll just get the sidewall down. So the edges are nice and clean with no obstruction for the file to cut. It is a pretty aggressive file and it’s just getting down, looking down. It's so some of the final files can cut a little bit better. These guys, they like it short and right to the very end. The file gets sharpen and then just it polishes it and getting it smooth as possible and no burst. To these skis, it has a grind in it. Some grind to different knowledge but they all are grinds in that. It has little pores in the base. The purpose of the pores in the grind, the grind of the ski is to for the restriction, and that it gets dirty and waxed and waxed and for rounds, and stuff like that if you cut in that. This is just being brushed and gets down into the pores and gets them opened up, gets the dirt out, and gets the pores opened. And then just go tip to tail like that. Just clean the ski off, any little fibers or anything that’s just sitting on there, we just wipe that off wiped at off. And then the ski is essentially it’s ready for wax. Just drop this on. Put the angle to cut. Put specific temperatures for each wax, so it's set accordingly. The excess wax over there, don’t worry it's really coming out in the scraper. So then we’ll take the brush. Well this pulls out any glass, put a wax and then put some bit polish to it. If you can see the bases opened right up and you're ready to go for the -- I’m united and I have a serviceman. I wasn’t in the national team of anything like that. So this is something that I had to cover as a racer myself. And make sure that all of my skis were crafted. I always have good fast skis and everything was sort of prepped well. So, this is one that they considered asking me to do this one that come in my mess through make the right choices on wax selection or anything like that. So it’s their responsibility to get it right. That’s the most important thing in out there. A bad wax, they go in slow. So we don’t want that.

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How to Tune Your Skis

Josh Applegate, Assistant Speed Coach/Serviceman of the US Ski Team reveals the recipe for Europe Cup Skis.

Right now, I’ll just get the sidewall down. So the edges are nice and clean with no obstruction for the file to cut. It is a pretty aggressive file and it’s just getting down, looking down. It's so some of the final files can cut a little bit better. These guys, they like it short and right to the very end. The file gets sharpen and then just it polishes it and getting it smooth as possible and no burst.

To these skis, it has a grind in it. Some grind to different knowledge but they all are grinds in that. It has little pores in the base. The purpose of the pores in the grind, the grind of the ski is to for the restriction, and that it gets dirty and waxed and waxed and for rounds, and stuff like that if you cut in that.

This is just being brushed and gets down into the pores and gets them opened up, gets the dirt out, and gets the pores opened. And then just go tip to tail like that. Just clean the ski off, any little fibers or anything that’s just sitting on there, we just wipe that off wiped at off. And then the ski is essentially it’s ready for wax.

Just drop this on. Put the angle to cut. Put specific temperatures for each wax, so it's set accordingly. The excess wax over there, don’t worry it's really coming out in the scraper. So then we’ll take the brush. Well this pulls out any glass, put a wax and then put some bit polish to it. If you can see the bases opened right up and you're ready to go for the --

I’m united and I have a serviceman. I wasn’t in the national team of anything like that. So this is something that I had to cover as a racer myself. And make sure that all of my skis were crafted. I always have good fast skis and everything was sort of prepped well.

So, this is one that they considered asking me to do this one that come in my mess through make the right choices on wax selection or anything like that. So it’s their responsibility to get it right. That’s the most important thing in out there. A bad wax, they go in slow. So we don’t want that.

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