Replying to Edge issue on rails
Okay NS, hear me out. This is driving me insane.
So, I got some revolt 95s and I’ve been riding them at my local park. I tried hitting them on the tubes with new edges. That was fine until I tried a 270 out and I caught the inside of my back edge and slammed super hard. I grabbed an edge tuner, took the file out and and tried to hand file the edges down. Felt okay but when I hit this one rail I just stuck like crazy. I’m talking flail the arms, jump off the rail and land with chest parallel with ground at 90 degree angle and try to land it.
So then I grabbed a coarse file, gummy stone and extra fine diamond stone. When I returned to the park. I was like “okay I’m chilling” but these other rails are a little stickier. Then it gets worse and worse. And I’m like “wtf”. So now I’m noticing I’m tilting my front foot at an angle and it’s like the inside edge of my front foot grinding on the rail (and sometimes outside edge of back foot). So now I’m like “fuck have I always done that? I don’t even know.”
For reference: my last skis were detuned at a shop so edge catching was not an issue. Also, I MIGHT have played it conservative with the detune initially but I didn’t think it needed to be particularly aggressive.
Is it normal to ride hard on the inside edge of your front ski or am I totally in my head because I’m so headfucked about catching an edge now? Do I need to just detune hard as hell?
Does anyone have any tips?
I’m stuck on the tubes and I feel like a dork skipping the rails in between the tubes
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