do you mark your skis right and left?

**belgian** · 11-07-2005, 12:05 AM

I'm curious.

I just slap 'em to the snow and click in whichever one lands left or right.

**Sphinx** · 11-07-2005, 12:06 AM

I mark them left-right and tip-tail. This one time I couldn't get clicked in; finally I realized I had em on backwards. By then my friends had snaked my line.

**Schmear** · 11-07-2005, 12:07 AM

I mark my boots right and left.

**jump** · 11-07-2005, 12:13 AM

Do you also mark your mono ski right and left?

**50kLeg** · 11-07-2005, 12:23 AM

I don't mark my skis but I mark my poles, don't wanna use a right hand pole in my left hand or other way around. Could be bad that way.

**duders** · 11-07-2005, 12:28 AM

Whats with the markings that they put on your skis when they put on your bindings? Everytime I get bindings put on skis they put these two stickers one on each ski in between the toe and heel piece of the bindings and the stickers have arrows on them, both pointing in oppsoite directions. What the hell is that for? Is that as a reference to which ski to put on which side? Like should the arrows be pointing toward each other or away or is it just crap? Its always pissed me off and Ive never found out.

**Ski to Be** · 11-07-2005, 12:31 AM

I only mark them if I have blown out edges & even then I just put a ski sticker on one just to keep track

**Endlessseason** · 11-07-2005, 12:31 AM

I don't actually mark them right and left as I already look retarded enough. I DO, however, have a mark on them so that I know which is which. I generally keep them on the same feet until I feel the inside edges are sufficiently dull. I then switch them and use the "fresher" edges thereby extending the life of each tune. (At least I convince myself that this practice makes a difference. I don't have proof that it does, but it does to me and that's what's important isn't it?

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**50kLeg** · 11-07-2005, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by duders

Whats with the markings that they put on your skis when they put on your bindings? Everytime I get bindings put on skis they put these two stickers one on each ski in between the toe and heel piece of the bindings and the stickers have arrows on them, both pointing in oppsoite directions. What the hell is that for? Is that as a reference to which ski to put on which side? Like should the arrows be pointing toward each other or away or is it just crap? Its always pissed me off and Ive never found out.

basically a way for them to keep track of what ski is what. if the toe piece ( or any of the dins) of one of the skis is off by any amount they want to know what ski it is so that if you blow you knee out they can say that they addjusted that ski properly. its just for liabilities.

**Art Shirk** · 11-07-2005, 12:41 AM

I just click and go also. I figure that the laws of probability and randomness will result in even wear on my edges if I dont pay attention everytime I click in.

**Schmear** · 11-07-2005, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by duders

the stickers have arrows on them, both pointing in oppsoite directions. What the hell is that for?

Haven't you figured it out? They're turn signals.

**Endlessseason** · 11-07-2005, 12:45 AM

Oh...I forgot to mention, the reason I try to keep "fresher" edges in reserve is for those times when I'm headed out to something sketchy/icy/demanding and I want that extra bit of security, whether it be actual or psychological.

**Ski Monkey** · 11-07-2005, 12:55 AM

In my racing days with straight skis, yes. Now, no.

**ptavv** · 11-07-2005, 02:09 AM

When I raced I would do it, and I would alternate races. Psychologically I was convinced this was the best way to have fresh edges. Whether it mattered or not I don't know.

On regular days, no I don't care.

**lax** · 11-07-2005, 02:53 AM

makes a huge difference for those of us who like to dull our skis on rails and then ski the ice coast

**TeleAl** · 11-07-2005, 03:10 AM

I have to. I ski telemark.
Otherwise, I never did when I skied alpine.

**Tuckerman** · 11-07-2005, 04:53 AM

Yeah I mark my skis so that I can use the same pair for traning and racing. Need to keep those race edges sharp.
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No thats not true.

**FigureEleven** · 11-07-2005, 08:46 AM

Like ski to be, I only mark skis if there is some physical damage that I want to be aware of every time it click in.

**Godwin-Austin** · 11-07-2005, 08:49 AM

habit from racing - still do it.

**Steven S. Dallas** · 11-07-2005, 08:51 AM

I mark 'em, as said above, in case of damage- not as much to the ski, because that's easily visible, but to the binding. If one of my clamps is loosening up (this is less of a problem since I stopped using shitty Salomons, but whatever) it's a lot easier to remember which one gets the Loc-Tite when there's some marking on it.

**Monique** · 11-07-2005, 08:58 AM

I did for a while but I still got mixed up so now I mark my legs right and left instead.

**altagirl** · 11-07-2005, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by Ski to Be

I only mark them if I have blown out edges & even then I just put a ski sticker on one just to keep track

Same here.

**iceman** · 11-07-2005, 09:03 AM

I mark 'em because I'm enough of a geek that I still tune the inside and outside edges differently, detuning the outside tips and tails for about 10-12 inches, the inside for about 6 inches, I can feel the difference carving on anything firm, it keeps the skis form hooking up and allows them to release out of the turn more easily. On the spatulas, though, I just throw 'em down and click in.

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