Up for 5 more days with my teenage boys! Good stuff.
Things started weird., Got the brand new booster strap cinched up, made sure my feet were nicely in the pocket in the bottom rather than booting in the parking lot... hopped onto the skis, they felt slow for the full tune and spring wax I got right before we left for the mountains, but whatever. Got up to the top, went on to a mild green run to get going... and discovered I could basically not make any turns whatsoever. Whatever tune they had done had rendered these essentially unskiable! Could not initiate a turn! White knuckled my way down to the repair tent and they did a basic tune and wax on it--they had noted that they were edge high. While I was waiting for this, I called the owner of the hometown shop--he confirmed that they had railed them (he had had a snowboard that they had done similarly). He apologized and promised me a re-tune later. I think I understand railing: they go too hot, the base expands, they shave off the expanded base, the base cools and then shrinks, and wala, your skis are edge high. Boy they were terrible.
After the second tune on the hill where they set them to 1base/2edge, I still found them troublesome for the rest of the day. It was much better but something felt worse than they used to for sure; It felt like they took a long time to get over and kind of tended to get caught in transition sometimes. So, this kinda sucked
Need to get them looked at one more time? Any long term consequences of being railed?
Consequently, the boys and I spent a bunch of time goofing around while I tried to make something work on these skis. Can choose tol just ski the 99s or the Enforcers tomorrow.
The booster strap was interesting... I felt myself actually flexing the boot when getting forward at times, the slop definitely reduced. The weird or different or sharper or... whatever on the new tune was hard to get used to. I found when I was getting forward and driving the shovel turns were going better, but the new tune doesn't like my A-framing! Maybe it's just sharp edges?
We did a little drilling on sideslipping--was pleased to see that there was SOMETHING my son couldn't do perfectly first try when he tried pivot slipping. It was still better than me by a lot but he can't do steady-state/tempo. I'm sure he'll get it by tomorrow, he said annoyedly and proudly.
Overall a nice day, good snow, frustrating to have the perfectly good I think tune on the AXs buggered up and then "fixed" to something skiable but that feels weird and/or is revealing problems with my technique