Posted by u/skibum44

1 hour ago

Tools to Use

A Scraper (Metal or plastic but always remember to keep it nice and sharp) A Horse Hair Brush

Make Sure The Snowboard Is Cold

Before you get your scrape on, make sure your snowboard is nice and chilly. After waxing, put your snowboard outside to help the snowboard cool down quicker. Putting the board outside helps the pores of the base close around the wax, so that when scraping, less wax will be exfoliated from the base.

Scrape That Baby

Place the scraper at an angle of approximately 45˚ and push the scraper along the base of the snowboard. Apply a firm amount of downward pressure to the scraper to help remove the wax. This is when your sharp scraper comes in handy. If your scraper is a bit blunt, removing the wax is gonna’ be a lot harder. The idea of scraping is to remove all the excess wax left on the base of the snowboard. You might think leaving some wax on the base of the snowboard is going to make you go a bit faster on the hill… but no, you’re WRONG! Leaving excess wax on the base is actually going to dry the base out quicker. This is because the snow crystals will drag out the excess wax as well as the wax already absorbed into the base. So don’t be lazy, and get scraping.

Brush It Real Good

Once you’ve removed all that nasty excess wax, it’s time to grab your brush and shine up the base. Giving the base that lil tidy up with the brush is going to make sure all that excess wax has been removed, and those nasty snow crystals won’t drag any of your wax out the base. Now you’ve removed all that excess wax and even the teeny weeniest bits of wax left over on the base with the brush, you’re all set to shred! The base should be nice and shiny.

Good Job Test

You can run your finger along the base once you’re done… You should hear that satisfying squeaky noise. Once you hear that squeaky noise, you know you’ve done an excellent job and can go hit the hill knowing your board is going to fly.