Tech Shop

Keep your skis and boards in top shape with regular waxing and edge sharpening. Your bases are plastic (either extruded or sintered) and wax protects your base from abrasion. Too much abrasion on dry bases makes the base convex, low along the edges, and raised down the middle. This makes for hard-to-control or “squirrely” skis and boards. A base grind can bring a base back to flat, but only a couple of times before your 2mm of the base is worn away. Prevent base wear with regular waxing.

How you store your skis when the season ends makes all the difference in how well they perform next year, and how long they last in general. Putting storage wax on your skis before storing them for the summer is critical! The goal of storage wax is to limit contact between your skis’ bases and oxygen. Polyethylene, what your bases are made of, is susceptible to oxidation over long periods of oxygen exposure.