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Terry Hertel Speaks — How to Wax Skis the Right Way
The following is Terry Hertel speaking directly — in his own words, in his own voice. This is WAXFAX the way it was meant to be heard.I have watched people wax skis for 50 years. And I have watched the same mistakes get made over and over again — not because skiers are careless, but because nobody ever told them the right way to do it.So let me tell you the right way.First: the iron. You need a dedicated ski wax iron. Not a clothes iron. A clothes iron has uneven heat distribution and no precise temperature control. You will...
Terry Hertel Speaks — The Science of Snow: What Every Skier Needs to Understand
The following is Terry Hertel speaking directly — in his own words, in his own voice. This is WAXFAX the way it was meant to be heard.Let me tell you something about snow that most skiers never think about.Snow is not a static surface. It is not a fixed thing you slide across. Snow is a constantly changing medium — changing by the hour, by the altitude, by the direction the slope faces, by whether the sun has hit it yet this morning. And every one of those changes affects how your ski base interacts with it.Most people think of...