Temp: 32'
Snow: Dry powder for 32'
Swix 60', Rhode 0', Rhode top line 0' and Rhode top line 0-2
Swix 60: Great Kick, glide good on long runs, poor glide of quick transitions
Rhode 0': Near Perfect
Rhode 0' top line: Great kick, good glide on long runs, poor glide in transitions, and not free on uphill strides
Rhode 0-2 top line: Awesome glide, very free when striding, but had to ski well and compress.
Pick- The better skiers would be wise to us the 0-2, skiers wanting a little more kick could use the traditional 0' and still put down a good race. Other waxes to test would have been Rhode Multigrade and Rhode topline 0-1
Monday, February 25, 2013
Flying moose
Temp: Upper 20's, near 30'
Snow: Powder, damp almost glazing snow
Wax: Members of NWVE skied on Toko Red and Rhode 0' and the Rhode top line 0' All were successful I tested the two 0' waxes, both performed extremely well. Top line felt a little faster off the transitions, and as temps rose, held its kick longer. In a second test following the race I tested top line 0' against Ski go HF yellow. Temps were rising and the tracks had started to glaze. The ski go HF yellow seemed to kick well, but the top line 0' was free'er and still the wax to race on. I would definitely like to test the HF yellow around or just above 32' in the range of Swix 60' and 70'
Snow: Powder, damp almost glazing snow
Wax: Members of NWVE skied on Toko Red and Rhode 0' and the Rhode top line 0' All were successful I tested the two 0' waxes, both performed extremely well. Top line felt a little faster off the transitions, and as temps rose, held its kick longer. In a second test following the race I tested top line 0' against Ski go HF yellow. Temps were rising and the tracks had started to glaze. The ski go HF yellow seemed to kick well, but the top line 0' was free'er and still the wax to race on. I would definitely like to test the HF yellow around or just above 32' in the range of Swix 60' and 70'
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Craftsbury Marathon
Temp: 1-12'F
Snow: Man made and tranformed natural snow very well tilled, in a few section the tracks were down to ice or courser grained snow.
The wax I used today was spray on green klister, covered with KR30. This worked well for me, early in the race it was not kicking as well as I would have liked, but as the course got skied in and loose snow started to fill the tracks, the ski's improved. I tried to fix the lack of kick by adding some Rhode special blue, but this created far too much drag. Others tried similar products with similar results. The trouble was the course was very transformed so a softer wax would have kicked better, but the tiller did such a nice job, there were allot of sharp snow crystals in the mix with cold temps. Others tried toko blue, and found it worked at least as well and possible a touch better. Steve Wright went outside the box and Used Rhode Chola as a binder, covered it with rex Blue Klister and then appled two layers of toko white hard wax and added a final layer of Mint for more speed. He had an excellent race and liked his ski's. Today the spray on green binder worked well for me as I lost less wax than those applying straight blue.
Snow: Man made and tranformed natural snow very well tilled, in a few section the tracks were down to ice or courser grained snow.
The wax I used today was spray on green klister, covered with KR30. This worked well for me, early in the race it was not kicking as well as I would have liked, but as the course got skied in and loose snow started to fill the tracks, the ski's improved. I tried to fix the lack of kick by adding some Rhode special blue, but this created far too much drag. Others tried similar products with similar results. The trouble was the course was very transformed so a softer wax would have kicked better, but the tiller did such a nice job, there were allot of sharp snow crystals in the mix with cold temps. Others tried toko blue, and found it worked at least as well and possible a touch better. Steve Wright went outside the box and Used Rhode Chola as a binder, covered it with rex Blue Klister and then appled two layers of toko white hard wax and added a final layer of Mint for more speed. He had an excellent race and liked his ski's. Today the spray on green binder worked well for me as I lost less wax than those applying straight blue.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
HS pursuit/Jackson 30k
Friday night pursuit
Temp: 3-10'
Snow: Mostly manmade tilled powder, with some areas of the course having some tilled in ice.
Wax: Toko Base green ironed in the day before, with a second layer corked in on rae day. The results from the race were great. This wax was able to climb all of the terrain on the course, some schools opted to cover the base green with a hard wax. Which gave them a little better glide. I feel this was a slight advantage at the start of the race, as we may have been only slightly slower. Following the start we were able to outclimb many schools, and passing on the downhills, due to the number of racers was not likely and may have only enhanced the likely hood af a crash. This was the wax of the night in my opinion.
Jackson 30k
Temp: 5- 12'
Snow: Natural old tilled powder
Wax: Toko Base green ironed in the day before, covered with Damian's convented Swix VR 30. The Swix rep had tested VR 30 and went for somthing faster. The ski's worked well today, producing a woman's championship, and placed 2 of our men in the top 3, behind only Kris Freeman. The Swix skiers, had gambled with fast ski's and placed there top male in 13th. I skied with the top woman for some of the race, outclimbing her, and passing her as she rewaxed. Her ski's were slightly faster than mine. Thier gamble may have paid off in a 5k, but not in a 30k.
Temp: 3-10'
Snow: Mostly manmade tilled powder, with some areas of the course having some tilled in ice.
Wax: Toko Base green ironed in the day before, with a second layer corked in on rae day. The results from the race were great. This wax was able to climb all of the terrain on the course, some schools opted to cover the base green with a hard wax. Which gave them a little better glide. I feel this was a slight advantage at the start of the race, as we may have been only slightly slower. Following the start we were able to outclimb many schools, and passing on the downhills, due to the number of racers was not likely and may have only enhanced the likely hood af a crash. This was the wax of the night in my opinion.
Jackson 30k
Temp: 5- 12'
Snow: Natural old tilled powder
Wax: Toko Base green ironed in the day before, covered with Damian's convented Swix VR 30. The Swix rep had tested VR 30 and went for somthing faster. The ski's worked well today, producing a woman's championship, and placed 2 of our men in the top 3, behind only Kris Freeman. The Swix skiers, had gambled with fast ski's and placed there top male in 13th. I skied with the top woman for some of the race, outclimbing her, and passing her as she rewaxed. Her ski's were slightly faster than mine. Thier gamble may have paid off in a 5k, but not in a 30k.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Middlebury HS race problems
Temp- 10-20' F
Today conditions were an ice base with 1-3 inches of old powder tilled into a light amount of tilled granular.
the overnight temps were in the single ditgits with the test temp around 10' and it warmed to around 20' upon departure.
This was a high school race. On both ski's I tested Toko spray on green klister, and then covered one with swix green, the other with Rhode Multigrade Blue. Both kicked well, so I went with Rhode with the wider range for the race wax. This is what the Boys team raced on, with the exeption of one racer we struggled against most of the other team's as far as kick went and I did not noitice a dramatic advantage in glide as a spectator. The Girls team applied Swix Blue under foot, and with an exeption or two they had smilairly poor results like the boys. For the JV race I had them apply extra Blue and torched it in as I noticed the Varsity ski's with little exeption had lost nearly all of there kick wax and were down to base green Klister binder. This worked a little better, and we had some skiers do quite well, but it was still not the best wax in the race by far. I talked to the team, who I had felt had the best ski's in the race. They used Skare Blue Klister made By Rhode as there binder,a softer klister than what we were on, likely applied thicker than the spray on waxes, they then covered with Rhode Super Blue for the advanced kids and Rhode Multigrade for the more Novice races. Both being much softer and well above the race temperature race waxes we used.
Had I had more time to test, and talked to the other coach sooner, I would have liked to try a Klister warmer than what they had used, covered with a colder hard wax on top, as mentioned earlier this winter at a swix wax clinic. Another thought I had was the toko green hard wax binder ironed in abd covered might have also performed very well, as the problem we had was not in the wax shearing from the base, but the kick wax shearing off the green klister.
Today conditions were an ice base with 1-3 inches of old powder tilled into a light amount of tilled granular.
the overnight temps were in the single ditgits with the test temp around 10' and it warmed to around 20' upon departure.
This was a high school race. On both ski's I tested Toko spray on green klister, and then covered one with swix green, the other with Rhode Multigrade Blue. Both kicked well, so I went with Rhode with the wider range for the race wax. This is what the Boys team raced on, with the exeption of one racer we struggled against most of the other team's as far as kick went and I did not noitice a dramatic advantage in glide as a spectator. The Girls team applied Swix Blue under foot, and with an exeption or two they had smilairly poor results like the boys. For the JV race I had them apply extra Blue and torched it in as I noticed the Varsity ski's with little exeption had lost nearly all of there kick wax and were down to base green Klister binder. This worked a little better, and we had some skiers do quite well, but it was still not the best wax in the race by far. I talked to the team, who I had felt had the best ski's in the race. They used Skare Blue Klister made By Rhode as there binder,a softer klister than what we were on, likely applied thicker than the spray on waxes, they then covered with Rhode Super Blue for the advanced kids and Rhode Multigrade for the more Novice races. Both being much softer and well above the race temperature race waxes we used.
Had I had more time to test, and talked to the other coach sooner, I would have liked to try a Klister warmer than what they had used, covered with a colder hard wax on top, as mentioned earlier this winter at a swix wax clinic. Another thought I had was the toko green hard wax binder ironed in abd covered might have also performed very well, as the problem we had was not in the wax shearing from the base, but the kick wax shearing off the green klister.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Rhode Special Green Vs Multigrade blue
Date: January 3
Temp -5 in am +10 in the afternoon
Snow: Old tracks in the am with a little snow snow skied in. The course was regroomed at 11:00 am for the afternnon test at 3:00pm
In the AM both waxes worked extremly well. I could not feel much difference in the two, leading me to believe after racing Blue multigrade at the alumni race with mixed feelings the Blue multigrade is a wax that should be used at the bottom of its range in the northeast.
In the afternoon, not much changed I had a little slip out of the special green ski, but it still felt very racable, and had a much larger range than I expected. Overall these were two waxes glided very well in cold temps, which can be the biggest factor in cold weather as kick is not hard to find.
Temp -5 in am +10 in the afternoon
Snow: Old tracks in the am with a little snow snow skied in. The course was regroomed at 11:00 am for the afternnon test at 3:00pm
In the AM both waxes worked extremly well. I could not feel much difference in the two, leading me to believe after racing Blue multigrade at the alumni race with mixed feelings the Blue multigrade is a wax that should be used at the bottom of its range in the northeast.
In the afternoon, not much changed I had a little slip out of the special green ski, but it still felt very racable, and had a much larger range than I expected. Overall these were two waxes glided very well in cold temps, which can be the biggest factor in cold weather as kick is not hard to find.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Rhode 0 vs Swix 60
Temp 33
Snow: Well packed tracks, with somewhat dry snow falling
The 60 provided kick superior to the 0, however the 0 was very kickable, and by far the free'er ski in the new snow making it a clear race day choice over 60 in this condition.
Snow: Well packed tracks, with somewhat dry snow falling
The 60 provided kick superior to the 0, however the 0 was very kickable, and by far the free'er ski in the new snow making it a clear race day choice over 60 in this condition.
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