New or stone ground ski preparation

You have new skis! Yay! It's so exciting to feel those beautiful new bases with ALL that potential SPEED!

Now you want to help those new skis reach their full potential through waxing! One of the best things you can do is to make your skis ROCK is to wax them - a lot!

Let's build them up the right way.

1. Clean your bases
   The best way to do this is to start with a steel or brass brush to get the big bits out. Once you've done that you want to do a hot scrape - put on soft wax and scrape it off before it cools.
   If the skis come waxed, for example Fischer skis, then you can scrape the wax, brass/steel brush and move on to step 2.
   
2. Base with warm/soft wax three times - Wax on / Wax off
   Choose a very soft wax, lots of options here but you are looking for base, hotbox, or very warm wax. Drip plenty on the base, let it cool fully, then scrape.
   
3. Wax with cold/hard wax one time
   This is a colder/harder wax to 'harden' the base. Drip plenty on the base, let it cool fully, then scrape.
   
4. Wax with the 'wax of the day' that you would like to ski for the next time you ski.
   
5. Before you ski on any newly waxed ski you want to give it a nice, happy brush with a nylon brush.
   

You might think this is all you need BUT if you want to truly have fast skis you'll want to ski on them, wax them, ski on them, wax them, in a continuous loop. This combination makes the skis super fast!

Finally, you should never let your good race skis sit for any length of time without wax. If the conditions don't allow for constant skiing you should make sure to storage wax your skis so they are happy.

Always remember - A waxed ski is a happy ski!