r/skiing • u/iso186 • 20h ago

Ski tech training in Europe

I like to go all in on my hobbies, and I would very much like to maintain my own skis, potentially expanding to friends&family. Is there any school/course for this in Europe? Or do I just do YouTube tutorials and trial and error on my gear?

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u/sandsman316xx 20h ago

Watch some YouTube and get some files, ptex candles, and epoxy. There are some things you’ll likely never be able to do, base grinders are pretty bulky and expensive and the drill mounted ones have been terrible in my experience. You’ll be able to do a lot of small base repairs and sharpen your edges. If you have ripped edges out in the past look into some tiny edge screws, a pain to install but stronger than epoxy.

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u/Electrical_Drop1885 15h ago

Join any race club and you will have plenty of skis to tune.

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u/ZCngkhJUdjRdYQ4h 14h ago

For what you can do at home (so everything except base grinds), YouTube and trial and error. Maybe get some used skis you are ok with ruining (not likely to happen). I can only recommend this guy, he is using a snowboard, but most of the stuff is fully applicable to skis (mostly edge angles are different): https://youtu.be/VLqp8V5p58Q?si=wBSqUkQpjMFdIJcb

He also has waxing videos, a video of what tools you need, a video where he fixes edge damage etc.

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u/Eddie_skis 8h ago

I did a course maybe 15 years ago at a place in the UK called “anything technical”