A Clean Base Is A Fast Base. Speed To Do The Deed! Swix Glide Wax Cleaner

Clean those bases before you wax. You do wax don't you?

just giv'er a good scrub with the brush, drip some wax on, and smooth it out with the iron. Not gonna scrape unless I'm hitting chads, just let the snow do it for you

How does this compare to a brush then hot wax?

abar.just giv'er a good scrub with the brush, drip some wax on, and smooth it out with the iron. Not gonna scrape unless I'm hitting chads, just let the snow do it for you

If you have sap, dirt, diesel soot, lift grease etc. on the ski base a brush alone is better than nothing.
However, with sap and grease though, you will only impregnate the stuff more with the heat.
As far as scraping and brushing goes, if the "snow" is doing that for you...........well, your wax job is crap.
Wax won't bind well to the above pollutants.

If you have a properly prepared base, which would mean clean, then base prep. wax such as Dominator Graphite Renew cooled, scraped, brushed, then followed up with the correct glide was for the conditions snow will not replace proper scraping and brushing.

Sorry, but when you need the speed to do the deed such as a jump, you need to do it well. If all you do is hit rails, then I guess you will survive.

Here is how to do it for glide speed such as needed for a slower snow jump run in.


https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/798663/Scraping--amp--Brushing-Skis-Final-Preparation-Of-Ski

snowmosexualHow does this compare to a brush then hot wax?

Hot scraping in crap is not anywhere near as good as the Glide Wax Cleaner. Notice "Cleaner" NOT remover.
Hot scraping is a huge waste of wax, plus done "right" means using a soft wax. Now you have too much soft wax.
Buy a can of Swix Glide Wax Cleaner. Use it before you wax. You will NEVER hot scrape again.


https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/863154/Swix-Glide-Wax-Cleaner-Grease-Cleaning-Test