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Does cold waxing skis have merit?
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

This came up on the stoke thread, where I saw footage of a guy rubbing wax onto his skis rather than using a hot iron. I have never seen this method used before, so for those in the know, how effective is this in comparison to hot waxing?

My only experience of cold waxing is with surfboards and the aim is to build up a nice bumpy, textured layer to which the soles of your feet grip.

But waxing skis is about creating a slidey surface rather than a grippy surface, so cold waxing skis seems counter intuitive.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Zero-G, Called corking and yes it works, but its hard work!

see here http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=60452

It is much much easier in the warm, but an anaerobic and aerobic sport!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Racers often use this method for applying a specialist 'start gate' overlay on the mountain but for regular waxing it's not a patch on using an iron to heat the ski/board. For a top-up it's a lot less effort & just as effective to use Zardoz Notwax.
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Thanks both! That definitely looks like hard graft as opposed to hot waxing.
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