 Poster: A snowHead
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Can someone explain why there are different waxes for different conditions?
I'm assuming everyone wants waxed skis to decrease the friction with the snow, so why would a wax sold as being for colder conditions (or vice versa) not be suitable for us in other conditions?
What do different waxes do in different snow temperatures?
How much is the typical hype and marketing?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@king key, nope, different temp waxes are necessary as they don’t really work outside the defined range. In fact, as I have found out myself when using skis that appeared to have too warm a wax on, it can be detrimental if your skis freeze up. This can happen on chairlifts and creates a lot of friction making it difficult to ski at all. Some, like the green Dominator Zoom, do have a large range though and will do most of the time.
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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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Yup, love the Zoom, and it's still pretty ok well below it's best range. Come spring though a good warm condition wax helps.
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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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Thanks chaps, that link above was very interesting. I've waxed my skis regularly (use them on piste & local snowdome) and appreciate how much nicer they feel, just confused as to the temperate thing. Reading the link above makes it more understandable. 
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Keep it simple - real simple.........., keep it blindingly fast. Durable, too. Just ask the US Ski Team what they use many times (even though they are under supplier contract with Toko and Swix). This........ Hot Sauce....... One single superior wax for all temps. They manufacture other specialized waxes, but Hot Sauce can do it all and then some, better than anything else............ Really.
https://www.hertelskiwax.com/Hertel-Super-Hot-Sauce-Ski-Wax-s/123.htm
Many speed skiers (records held) know Hertel, too.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Mon 20-11-17 0:59; edited 3 times in total
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Also been very happy with the Dominator Zoom green stuff.
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Would be pointless me waxing my ski's for specific conditions given a) I have no idea at the time what the conditions will be and b) over the week and from morning to evening the conditions can vary so much. I just some "universal" stuff.
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| king key wrote: |
| Can someone explain why there are different waxes for different conditions? |
Much the same as the reason you can buy different tyres for your car for different conditions - winter tyres give more grip/shorter stopping distance than summer ones below +7degrees but summer ones will give more grip/shorter stopping distance above that. Of course much like car tyres you quickly get in to diminishing returns. In F1 you have 5 dry weather compounds and which is fastest will come down to track temperature, with a couple of degrees temperature difference being the difference between one compound and another.
Bringing this back to skiing, if you're a racer then which wax you use can be the difference between winning and coming 10th. If you're not a racer though, in much the same way summer tyres don't just stop working and go square at +7degrees a +2 to -3 ski wax doesn't turn to glue at below -3, it just won't be quite as quick as a -2 to -5 wax.
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| How much is the typical hype and marketing? |
For racers? Not at all.
For the rest of us? 90% hype/marketing. Almost any wax will be quicker than no wax and flaws in our technique will cause more variation in time down the same run than the wax being a few degrees out of it's designed range, so just go with a universal wax like Zoom Lime.
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Good post above
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