Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Last week i took my board to heme for a day.
When i came back home it seems like all the wax i applied the week before has been striped.
i took a photo of the edge of the board, does this looks like i need to wax it again ?
Also how often to you need to have the edges sharpen / detune ?
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Striped wax would be interesting, but I guess you mean "stripped". You can't really tell from looking at a picture. If you can't tell from riding then it doesn't matter.
Artificial snow wears wax fast, depending on what wax you use, although I'd expect to get more than a day out of a decent wax job. 3-4 days on hard piste would be typical. That's not artificial, but there's no way you can ride huge vertical at Hemel - even if you're fast, the lifts are not. Extruded bases (as opposed to sintered) are supposed to hold wax less well and are commonly used for park boards: you don't really need wax (or speed) if you're on rails.
With experience you can tell from touching the base if it needs waxing - if it doesn't feel "waxy" then it needs doing. Push your finger across the base. Compare how it feels in areas where there's probably plenty of wax versus those where it wears fastest (by the edge versus the centre of the board, assuming you can edge the board). You should be able to feel the difference.
For riding on piste I re-sharpen when the edges need it. Just ride the board, and when you feel that the edges could use a tune, do it. If you can't tell, don't do it. I never sharpen the edges on powder boards as you don't use them. I never detune edges, I ride them.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Our French neighbour, seeing my OH waxing some skis on the terrace, asked if you have to do that every year. Her skis looked fairly ancient and probably hadn't been waxed since the demise of the franc but she got round the mountain on them OK. I once left the wax on one of mine, and scraped the other, then threw them on the snow at random and really couldn't tell which was which, and after a couple of runs they definitely felt the same.
OK, I am definitely a punter, but I do think it's possible to make too much fuss about these things. Like someone just learning the basics of sailing a dinghy faffing around trying to tune the rigging.
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@pam w, a large +1 to that.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I kind of like the attitude of some of those French guys - it's the opposite of the consumerism you sometimes see in the sport.
On a point of detail... a "scraped" and an "un-scraped" base would both actually be waxed, as the business bit is what's actually in the base, not what's on it. If you failed to scrape one board, then that excess wax would I think not stay there for long anyway. So you're not actually comparing wax versus non-wax. Just saying.
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My only advice is tune at a frequency you feel comfortable with. When something is new and shiny the natural tendency is to service it often. Once it's hit a few rocks and had some base welds drop out your inclination is to think well unless it's actually dragging then I can live with it until I get round to it. All IME anyway. Slapping on wax and a file for every week on snow seems like a fair compromise.
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The short version is that the answer to the question "Do I need to wax my board/skis now?" is always "Yes".
The long version is that most of the time it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. More important in sticky conditions, off-piste, in the park and for racing. For general bombing around, you'll reach your own limits long before maxing out the speed of your base, waxed or not.
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I usually use my board for my one or two week holiday, hot wax and scrape to clean, then hot wax on and store waxed. Reheat, cool, then scrape before I go, so i guess I'm once every one or two weeks. Beer, music and the smell of hot wax in the house really puts me in the mood.
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xrdcarbon
xrdcarbon
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Striped wax would be interesting,if you are interested in it,go ahead
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