Ski Wax Secrets: What Makes You Glide Faster? 🏔️🔬

[@PinkFZeppelin]

Leonid Luzman figured this out a long time ago and presented it in his PhD thesis.

[@packapunchburger]

I'd just play the grease lightning soundtrack and hope for the best

[@TaylorSparks]

@@packapunchburger lol. Ski tunes are the real differentiator on the speed downhill, aren't they? When I need speed, it's got to be The Get Up Kids

[@h.c.2108]

My guess before watching the video is that wax doesn't work and what's actually happening the skis get warm from waxing friction and they actually glide better but only before they get cold again

[@TaylorSparks]

Good guess, but it's not warming. It's friction from surface morphology and hardness mostly