TECHNICAL TIP

DATE OF PUBLICATION

Tip # 1
PREPARING X-C SKI BASES AFTER THEIR SUMMER OFF - INCLUDES PREPARING X-C SKI BASES, SHARPENING STEEL SCRAPERS, BURNISHING STEEL SCRAPERS, STEEL SCRAPING PEELING THE BASE, STRUCTURING THE BASE, DE-BURRING THE BASE, AND WAXING.

October 5, 2000

Tip # 2
UNDERSTANDING GLIDE WAXING

November 21, 2000

Tip #3
WAXING NEW SKIS

December 21, 2000

Tip #4
FLUORINATED WAXES

January 5, 2001

Tip #5
TOOLS FOR WAXING

February 1, 2001

Tip #6
I FELT THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET
(THE SOURCE OF LEG POWER IN SKATING
by Lee Borowski

November 29, 2001

Tip #7
MOUNTING PILOT BINDINGS

December 11, 2001

Tip #8
APPLYING MAP BLACK AND OTHER HARD BASE WAX ON THE GLIDING SURFACES OF SKIS.

February 13, 2004

Tip #9
WAXING "NO-WAX" SKIS.

January 10, 2002

Tip #10
KEEPING FUELED WITH MARC'S MUNCHY MUFFINS

November 9, 2002

Tip # 11
WAXING SKIS FOR
MID-WINTER SNOW

December 13, 2002

Tip # 12
SKATING ON FIRM SNOW

January 10, 2002

Tip # 13
SCRAPING GLIDE WAX FROM SKIS

January 16, 2002

Tip # 14
KICK WAXING FOR MIXED SNOW

January 17, 2002

Tip # 15
BRUSHING & ROTO BRUSHING GLIDE WAXES

February 13, 2004

Tip #16
PREPARING WAXABLE CLASSIC SKIS for the START OF THE SEASON

December 20, 2001

Tip #17
GETTING HARD GLIDE WAX INTO THE BASES - WHY AND HOW

November 28, 2002

Tip # 18:
DINGS, CUTS and SCRATCHES – FIXABLE?

December 12, 2002

Tip # 19:
WAXING SKIS – BACK and FORTH or TIP-TO-TAIL?

December 19, 2003

Tip # 20:
THE "HITCH" PHASE of DIAGONAL STRIDE

February 14, 2005