Ski equipment.

Clothing skier

Clothing skier should be light, warm and waterproof (see Fig.). Several thin layers retain heat better than one bigger. The first layer - underwear (men - pants, women - leggings). A turtleneck (cotton, wool or blended fabrics, but not synthetic), protects the neck and absorbs sweat. Then wear a thick sweater knit, but the average thickness and, finally, a light waterproof and windproof jacket. Pants should be light, warm and waterproof. Always wear a hat, because 80% of heat given body go out the uncovered head. Buy a wool cap tighted: a cap of synthetic not provide the conservation of heat. Gloves should be warm, waterproof - preferably made of genuine leather.

S. McCoy

How is the ski clothes in the way

If you take a ride bag or backpack, then things together on the principle: First, Put the thing, and then rolled. When folded jacket, make sure there is nothing in his pockets, and zippers fastened. Lay the jacket on a flat surface, then fold the sleeves (as shown in Fig.) And Fold it in half. Sweater develops similarly, but the high collar straightening and piled up on his chest. Take a sweater is not tight in the direction of the gate arm and gate must be within the roll. Ski pants should also be rolled up. Fold the trousers on the front pleats and, starting from the bottom, roll them in the direction of the belt. Overalls add a little more difficult, but the principle is the same. Lay it flat, buttoned zipper. The sleeves roll front on the diagonal, as in the jacket. Each trouser leg rolled up separately, starting from the bottom. Then fold the suit so that the upper part lay on the rolled-up pants.

S. McCoy

How to carry ski equipment

Ski equipment is heavy and bulky. But if you carry it as it's done by experienced skiers, will be much easier. Put the skis sliding surfaces and seal between the brake bindings. Then put skis on his shoulder, and keeping them the same name by hand, reduce to a point located behind the bracket Noskov (ski heels should barely tip). Shoes and a stick, take the other arm. Pre-button all the buckles on shoes and a cable release thread the upper buckles and strap button - get comfortable handle, connecting the shoes (see fig.). Eventually you will be able to keep the same hand and stick. When walking, avoid sharp turns, especially if you are behind another skier.

M. Lund

What you need to repair ski and care

First of all, should be well lit and ventilated workstation equipped with a large table on which to build ski vise. It should stock up the following tools and materials (see Fig.): Drachovym files for initial vytachivaniya heavily damaged edges, personal files (25 cm long) for vytachivaniya sliding surface, velvet files for polishing the sliding surface after the repair of potholes, the holder of a file, ensuring strict adherence to angle of 90° vytachivanii side of the edge; steel cycle to remove excess polyethylene with a repaired section of the sliding surface, a steel ruler or wedges (end measure) to verify the correctness of a sliding surface, a plastic loop to remove excess grease; stiff wire brush to remove metal shavings and polyethylene dust cuts file; fine-grinding wedges for deburring edges after the point; abrasive fine grain sandpaper for final polishing of the sliding surface after the repair of potholes, a solvent to remove grease from the sliding surface, the usual road straightened with temperature control for hot waxing, a plug for raspolirovki wax on the sliding surface with a cloth to remove grease from the rolling surface of metal shavings at the point and plastic stick or candle-type P-tex. Instead of plastic sticks can take a strip cut out of the sliding layer of broken skis, or, in extreme cases, cut into strips cork of champagne.

E. Sereda

How to patch up the potholes and grooves on the sliding surface

First of all, make sure the ski is completely dry, and clean the sliding surface from dirt and old grease. The solvent should not become numb to the crack near the edge, as a result of this can happen behind a plastic sliding layer. Ignite the end of the plastic sticks - Let the molten polyethylene drips on the metal loop. When will disappear traces of black soot, start the repair. Keep burning sticks so close to the sliding surface that polyethylene is not dripping, and drain off directly into the furrow and formed a continuous patch. Deep potholes should be filled by several successive layers, allowing each layer to cool well. Method for production of molten polyethylene in the process of its combustion is simple, but it reduces it and increases the strength and fragility. When repairing a sliding surface is very effective melting polyethylene soldering power of 65 W, equipped with a brass nozzle (see Fig.). Every furrow, and pothole filled in with excess. A few hours after sealing the damaged parts ottsiklyuyte their movements away and polish a file first, and then fine sandpaper. Cycle should be periodically sharpened. To do so, attach the file in a horizontal position and draw on it a few times a cycle. Make sure that it was perpendicular to the files.

S. Masia, J. Heuga

How to make a proper sliding surface

Check the clearance limit measure or a steel ruler correctness of a sliding surface. It must be perfectly flat in the transverse direction (from edge to edge) across the length of the ski. Fix the brake bindings in the top position, taking them through the Achilles fixing rubber ring or tucked under their cycle. Put your personal files on the sliding surface of the ski at an angle of 45 ° to the longitudinal axis by means of a shank to his right hand. Pressure on file with your thumbs positioned strictly above the notches skis, should only be performed while moving forward. Keep a file of exactly the movements from the nose to the tail (see fig.). After each turn the motion filed, and after each of the two labor movements of his brush with a wire brush. At the same time wash cloth with a sliding surface of metal filings that in future they are not dug into the soft plastic layer.

S. Masia

How to sharpen the edges of skis

The point of edge does not require much effort, if they have no significant damage, and no surface hardening of metal from the blows of the stones, which can sometimes be found on the mountain slopes. In the latter case, the point should be a file several times to the lateral surface of the edge fine-grained grinding bars. For the point edges turn ski side surface up (sliding surface from you). Keep a file along the edge shank back so that the angle between the plane of a file and a sliding surface of the ski was equal to 90 °. Sharpen the edge with long, overlapping movements, pressing on file with your thumb on top when moving forward with a bent index finger rests on the sliding surface for maintaining the angle of 90 ° (see Fig.). If you find it difficult to do this, use the special holder for the file. After several labor movements, empty file with a wire brush and wipe with a cloth ski. After graduating from the file, spend the wedges on the side of edge and by the sliding surface to remove burrs. The final stage is blunting of the edges on the toe and in the background. Last 5 cm from the back and land at the toe edge, which normally does not come into contact with the snow, it is necessary to round off a file, otherwise they will scratch the other ski.

S. Masia

How to apply the wax on the sliding surface with iron

Hold the hot iron with the toe down to the end of the skis, but so that the toe does not touch the sliding surface, and push the foot iron bar wax. wax should just melt, but in any case not to smoke. If the temperature of the iron will be higher than 100 ° C, then when you stop iron moisture has penetrated under the sliding layer at the edge, boil and steam can cause damage at this point sliding layer. At 150 ° C polyethylene molecules begin to crumble, and after cooling the surface becomes less slippery. When the cream begins to melt, gently move the iron along the ski so that formed track drops of grease from one end of the ski to the other. Now flatten wax iron (see Fig.), While the iron should not stop for a second. When the cream will harden, Scrape off the excess with the plastic bar, moving it from the nose to the tail ski. Remove the cream from the central groove with a screwdriver or a blunt shaped projection on a plastic loop. Polish the surface of the sliding tube, moving it well from the nose to the tail.

S. Masia

How to change the behavior of the ski

Changing the method of grinding skis is easy to change and the nature of their conduct, to behave as a longer or shorter. If you want to ski were more «lenient» to your mistakes, easier to rotate on the hills and had greater maneuverability on the gentle slopes, you need to become blunt. Bring on the slope of fine-grained whetstone. Hold the bar at an angle of 45 ° to the rib edge, a little blunt in his sock, and slip-on. First blunt the first 3 cm from the widest part of the skis back and toes the same section from the widest part of the tail forward (see fig.). Gradually increase the length of the bluff areas until until you feel comfortable.

If you want to ski taxiing down more vigorously (especially on hard snow and ice), sharpen edges in socks and slip-on a more acute angle than 90 °. Start with the angle, very close to 90 °, and gradually reducing the angle, to achieve the desired result to you. Currently, many companies - manufacturers of ski recommend that sports skiing sharpened at a more acute angle.

S. Masia

How to care childrens' skis

1. For all ages. After skiing, wipe skis and bindings with a towel or cloth. Wipe the dirt off his shoes and put them in a place where you can dry the inner boot.
2. From 6 years and older. Double check the sliding surface and edges of their skis. Smooth down on edge with a fine-grained stone. If necessary, adult can sharpe edges.s
3. From 6 years and older. Zachehlyayte skis during storage or travel. When transporting ski in a plane or bus they can pull an old sock on the upper end of the ski, and the other on the heel that edges won't rub against each other. If the skis are transported to the trunk of a car, sheathed fixing. On dry shoes button buckle.
4. Younger than 10 years. They can clean the sliding surface of the ski and rub it with cold wax brick. (Fig. 20).
5. From 10 years and older (under adult supervision). They can remove old grease from the rolling surface of skis with a solvent. Make a hot waxing iron, and then scrape off excess of wax.

B. Bostick

How to prepare a ski storage for the summer

First stage. Clean the skis, bindings, boots and sticks. Clean any dirt upper surface of the skis. Free of dirt and simultaneously raspolirovat upper surface of skis can be a paper towel soaked in a suspension of tooth powder and liquid ammonia (liquid consistency of sour cream). Then wipe with a damp cloth skiing, and then dry, but with a sliding surface to remove grease with a solvent (eg, trichlorethylene). Mounts wipe with a soft cloth. Remove the inner shoes to dry and wash off the dirt with outdoor shoes.
Second stage. Write to the memory indicator values anchorages, then release the springs from the tension that they do not have the fatigue phenomenon. Do not leave the rear mount in the cocked position.
Third stage. Cover the sliding surface of ski thick layer of paraffin or any ski waxs. Brick wax carefully rub edges so they do not rust (see Fig.).
Fourth stage. Put the dried inner shoes to external, stuff them inside a newspaper and fasten all the buckles.
Fifth stage. How to store ski equipment in the room with more or less constant temperature and humidity. Skis should be stored in an upright position toes up, not connected with each other. If an internal shoes have a thermoplastic filler, turn their soles up to the filler does not accumulate at the base. Do not hang a stick or a strap rings - put them side by side with the skis.

G. Nelson