Designating Left or Right Ski?

[ZAMBNYDRVR]

Hello,

I just invested in my first pair of skis. Is there any benefit/harm in designating a left and a right ski?

Thank you for your time.

 

[riverc0il]

yes. while very very few skis have a "left" and "right" ski, marking them as such can help by alternating your edges as generally one side of your edges will get more wear than the other if you always put them on the same side. i usually switch my edges up every week or two.

other than that, it really doesn't matter.

 

[Greg]

To help keep the skiis on the same feet through out the day, I put a small Sunday River sticker on the tip of one and a Sugarloaf sticker on the other.

Lemme guess. SugarLoaf for Left and Sunday River for Right?

 

[riverc0il]

i can tell which ski is which based on the damage both on the surface and the bases of the skis. :shock;

 

[hammer]

i can tell which ski is which based on the damage both on the surface and the bases of the skis.

I know what you mean...after taking a short run through the woods at Crotched early in the season, I managed to put some "unique marks" on each of the bases so that I know which ski is which.

The problem I have is that I don't ski often enough to remember which ski I used on which side last. Actually, I don't even keep track during the day I'm skiing.

Since I don't get out as much as the other diehards on this forum, I'm not sure if it makes as much of a difference to me or not.

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

.I like skiing on a clean edge so I rotate my skis each day I go out or if there is a funky feeling then I change right then...

 

[ctenidae]

We got new boots this season, and when we got our skis back theshop had put right/left stickers on. They said it was so they could keep track of which boot they used to adjust which binding, or something to that effect. Does this seem odd? Wouldn't it be prudent to adjust with either, but test with both? Brand new boots, it probably doesn't matter so much, but if you have any wear, the adjustment could be affected, couldn't it? At the exteme, you could end up with your boot not fitting in one binding at all, or not being able to lock down.
I couldn't even begin to keep track of any rotation scheme, myself, so I use them as they lay when they hit the snow.

 

[bvibert]

Last year I always put the ski with the "right" sticker on the right foot. This year its just however they fall when I lay em in the snow.

 

[teachski]

The only people I can see this really mattering for is people with two different sized feet that have different shells. I have different liners, but not shells so this doesn't matter to me. In the morning, when I might be involved in a lesson, the skis are on the labeled feet. In the afternoon, after lunch I switch them. I do this each time I ski.

I have a second pair of skis that do not have a marking on them so they go on where they fall.

 

[beswift]

When I worked mounting skiis we always sent them out of the shop with a designated Left and Right. In fact the Marker binding I use has markings for a Left and Right. It is recommended to ski that way. However, after skiing on a pair for 14 years and carefully keeping the right ski on the right foot, I just this past week realized something. One ski suffered a gouge along the outer edge underfoot during one of the first days I used it. I have always had trouble keeping the hole plugged. It's basically due to the fact that we use one ski differently than the other. It's only natural since we are either right or left footed in other sports, our hearts are on the left side, ect. In order to try and keep the repair solid this time, I finally switched the ski designation. It took me a lot of time to figure out that I'm harder on the Right ski than the Left. :dunce: Now, I will continue to be scrupulous about keeping the right on the right foot (or was it the old right on the left foot?).

 

[RossiSkier]

I have a pile of these "R" and "L" stickers, but I forget which ski to put them on.

 

[beswift]

I have a pile of these "R" and "L" stickers, but I forget which ski to put them on.

You don't put them on skiis, dummie, you put them on boots.

 

[RossiSkier]

I have a pile of these "R" and "L" stickers, but I forget which ski to put them on.

You don't put them on skiis, dummie, you put them on boots.

Oh man! Why didn't I think of that sooner. I was going to stick them on my Thule, but your idea is better.

 

[riverc0il]

thx rossiskier, first belly laugh of the day. :lol: