We loaded up our skis
and we're headed to SPX Levent Mega.
At the start of the winter, people tend
to forget about ski maintenance.
We decided to make this
video to remind people
about that and teach them
about how to do that.
There is a well equipped maintenance
facility in SPX Levent.
We'll see how they maintain skis with
their Wintersteiger machines in a minute.
Oh, hello gentlemen.
Hello, welcome.
We are shooting a ski
maintenance video for SPX TV.
Our goal today here is to
explain people how this job is done.
By the way, let me tell you that aswell,
Bülent is also a snowboard instructor.
He is
one of our first coworkers
from our first SPX Team.
We're also wearing the same t-shirts today.
- Yeah you are...
- Yes we are...
Mümtaz is also...
We were working together as
a team in Akmerkez 20 years ago,
three of us.
- There is a deep scratch here...
- Really deep yeah...
- It almost cut through its guts...
- Yeah...
- Its steels are showing...
- Yeah, yeah
We're gonna zero this out...
This will be like brand new when
you're done with it yeah?
- Sure...
- It'll almost go back to its factory settings.
Of course we can't do
it brand new but...
- But it'll almost go back...
- Steels...
...will be repaired, base will
be repaired, it'll be waxed...
We whey the steel from
the side and from the base.
Back then these were done by hand.
People also worry about
the surface of the ski, surface of
the ski doesn't matter actually,
The scratches on the ski...
Whole deal is this...
The base and the steels...
The scratches on the surface of the
ski do not affect the skiing experience,
there is no effect at all...
Ok, so let's start!
So...
To see the scratches on the ski,
first we put the ski into
our machine, we do an MRI.
Let's start, Mr. Bülent.
The base probably ran into a rock
or a piece of stone,
we have a pretty deep scar here...
Apart from that, those little
scratches are not important.
But we need to fill these
deep scars
that we can notice with our fingernails
either with black
or white or any other
colored polyethylene materials,
depending on the color.
This is a very important filling
machine produced by Wintersteiger.
Now we'll wait for it to cool down
and then we'll manually
trim the excess filling, and
then we'll visit our machine.
Yeah, now our polyethylene material is
completely cooled down,
so we are trimming the excess now.
Then, we'll send it to the machine again.
After it's been in the machine,
if there are any  scratches left,
we'll fill those parts manually again.
Our filling is now done, so we'll
put this in the machine again,
to check if we did this right.
Right now, the base of the ski is
almost brand new.
So, what's left? What's left is,
whetting the side steels
and waxing the ski.
Why do we wax it?
So the base doesn't...
...freeze or holds any excess snow.
Normally,
this waxing depends on the mountains snow
height or weather,
but we're doing a standart waxing now,
because this varies with racers.
Before we go into waxing,
we're going to...
With this Wintersteiger machine...
By the way, we import this
machine from Austria,
this is one of the best ski
maintenance units in the world.
You've seen the sparks that
were flying off from the steel.
This usually means there are some
unwanted crevices in the steel,
and now we eliminated that.
It's like a mirror now...
It has become really sharp now,
when we do this we can
even file our fingernails.
Now let's start the waxing...
Our wax machine is ready...
After this,
we'll see the difference between those
two skis, we didn't maintain the other ski.
We'll examine the differences between the
maintainedski and non-maintained ski together.
Now, our waxing is done...
For the very last, this
is usually ignored...
Calvin skies begin their
turning with the front steel.
Therefore, we need to dull
the steel in this 10-15 cm area,
because this
machine makes
it very sharp. Because this
machine makes it very sharp,
we dull the steel a bit so
you don't lose your front steel
This is not a sandpaper,
with a felt-like material,
we dull tihs a bit,
so you can ski with more
control and less danger.
- So, how's it, are the skis done?
- Yeah.
- They're the bomb, right?
- your ski maintenance is done...
My advice for you is to bring
- these back at the end of the season.
- Exactly,
I will do this right.
This time at least I'll do it right...
Gentlemen, thank you very much.
- Have a nice season, bye...
- Have a nice season, have fun...
See you later... Careful,
so we don't topple those...
Yeah, I have two ski maintenances,
what do I pay?
- Uhmm.. 80, 80... You'll pay 160.
- Awesome,
price is really good.
By the way, I have a discount but
I won't tell you how much that is.
At this situation, we have
two main messages for you.
One, please make sure you
maintain your skis and snowboards...
This is very important... Two,
don't leave this to the last minute,
because if you do that
that's really hard for us...
My friends here get very stressed
at the start of season because of this,
so please make sure that you
do this at the end of the season.
This is all I have to say,
see you at the next video.
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