negate the need for scraping the bases after hot waxing your skis. Instead of the traditional iron/scraper method, it uses infrared heat lamps to melt wax into your bases. That’s great for ski shops ...

It’s applied by using an iron to melt the wax onto the base of each ski and scraping off the excess. The scraping process ensures a smooth layer and attempts to fill in the pores to repel moisture.

The ski that slides the easiest will turn the easiest." Mr. Raymond explained that in the days when skiing was new in this region, waxing was a science which only experts could understand.