The why and how of keping wax brushes clean. Over the next four articles, I'll show four different ways to keep your brushes clean, in order of increasing mechanization. Today: The slap and scrape method.

By Mike Muha
Jan 26, 2009

Wax recommendations from Fast Wax, Solda, Swix and Toko for the Noquemanon Ski Marathon. Check back for updates!

By Mike Muha
Jan 22, 2009

Your hot wax products should be chosen according to snow temperature. It is not always possible to establish the snow temperature in advance. Is there a way I can approximate the snow temperature from an accurate air temperature reading at the venue?

By Ian Harvey
Jan 21, 2009

Swix Traverse City Sprint wax recommendation for this Tuesday's sprint race.

By Pete Edwards
Jan 19, 2009

Head Coach Bryan Fish of CXC Team talks about his waxing experience at US Nationals. CXC member Caitlin Compton won the women's 5k skate and Matt Liebsch finished 3rd in the men's 10k skate, and were observed as having had extremely fast skis.

By Bryan Fish
Jan 16, 2009

2009 US Nationals proved to be some of the coldest racing we have experienced in a long time. The race organizers did a great job, but the weather just did not cooperate. The result was two of four events were cancelled due to cold temperatures.

By Swix Technical Team
Jan 16, 2009

Wax recommendations from Fast Wax, Solda, Swix and Toko for the Garland Gripper and Garland Glide. Check back for updates!

By Mike Muha
Jan 15, 2009

Swix Traverse City Sprint wax report for this Tuesday.

By Pete Edwards
Jan 13, 2009

Fast Wax Slick Pro Speed Paste combines the simplicity of paste wax with the performance of fluorinated temperature-specific hot wax. A great training wax for the days when there's no time to hot wax, and a paste wax you can race on.

By Dan Meyer
Jan 8, 2009

The Toko Tech Manual has been updated for the 2008/9 season and is readily accessible on the www.TokoUS.com website.

By Ian Harvey
Dec 26, 2008

Updated Friday 5:11pm: Wax recommendations for the Holiday Classic (a Michigan Cup Race) and maybe the Holiday Sprints. Check back for additional recommendations or updates.

By Mike Muha
Dec 26, 2008

Many times at Swix we are asked what our BW waxes are, and when to use them. The following article adapted from a paper written by the two top Swix Chemists in Norway should help to answer some of those questions.

By Lars Karlof and Leif Torgersen Axell
Dec 24, 2008