Name: How To Wax Skis - Basic Ski Waxing Tips
Uploaded: 2013-04-24T02:18:08.000Z
Duration: 7 min 48 s
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Hi I'm Chris and welcome to our how-to video series in this video

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I'll be teaching you how to wax your skis.

waxing your skis is a great way to save money in the long run

and then it also allows you to get a lot better performance out of your ski.

you'll notice that you'll glide a lot longer and faster on the flat surfaces

and you'll also have an easier time with turning and things like that.

the first thing you'll want to do when waxing your skis is to take a rubber band and

loop it around the brake and then go around the binding

and loop it around the other arm of the brake and that just holds the brake back

so you don't have to deal with it while you're waxing

From there you'll want to take a nylon pad

clean up the basis of the ski so you'll just rub it

To get all the dirt off and then you'll want to take a

now the goal with this first coat of wax is to clean the ski

just like with a car, you don't want to apply

the final coat of wax on something dirty. So is what this does, is it just gets

all the dirt and grime that your ski may have picked up on the slope

so for this step it's good to use a universal wax that's really soft because it'll penetrate

so to start out with you just take the bar of wax and touch it to the iron

and then you'll drip it on to the base of the ski in a zigzag pattern

and slowly go over the base to iron in the wax.

as you may have been able to tell, this step will take

one pass and the same is true for scraping the wax off.

while it's still hot. So you start with your scraper at the tip

Hold it at a forty five degree angle to the base

but it's completely up to you which method you prefer

and completely finish the cleaning process

and then also this prepares the base so it'll soak up more wax.

so after you're done with the nylon brush

and then just wipe down the base to get rid of any of the wax particles that are left

and then from there we move into the final wax

and for the final wax you have a little bit of choice. You can either stick with the

universal wax which will be good for a wider range of temperatures or you can get

a temperatures specific wax, which will perform better for a given

But the drawback is usually you have to have

that when you find out what the conditions are going to be like in the morning

but in this case i'm going to just use the universal glide wax

A lot of people who are just starting out waxing skis

it's kind of a waste because you just end up scraping it off in the end

you want to make sure that you don't stop the iron

you want to keep a nice fluid motion going

because if you stop in a certain spot of the ski

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