Are your edges sharp? Are you riding on ice? (sharp edges gives you better control on ice).

For the base grinding, the base damaged to the point that grinding away at the base will help? If no... then you won't need base grinding.

 

I'm pretty sure Avran did a video a while ago belt grinding a board to death and didn't have enough time in the day to do it.

 

Found it. Was a while ago....., looks pretty fit here.

 

I just watched that yesterday. Lol he did like 250 passes.. so ridiculous, but I guess I shouldn’t worry about 2-3 belt grinds
Yeah I do ride ice.. it’s inevitable in the PNW hill I ride due to freeze/thaw conditions when it’s not snowing.
The scratches are not even a mm deep so I am being a baby about the appearance. And I hit it hard with a brass brush before I wax and that has seemed to add some light structure to the board. My edges are like a whole season old .. still sharp enough to take some finger nail off, but now have burrs from the other day..

guess I could just do the tune and the brass brush I use could just put some structure on the board over time and I could save $40 on the stone grind..

Do any of you guys stone grind your boards that don’t come with structure? I have a Yes board and I don’t think they do..

 

A snowboard runs across the ground, so unless you ride in super perfect powdery conditions you often have a high chance of riding over shit. I repair bases/edges on heaps of ski/snowboards every year with customers riding over or crashing into stuff in Australia. Not sure how they do it as I can ride and get almost zero damage but I'm selective where I venture ie keep on the snow. Keeps the Ptex guns turning over.