Last working day this week, so on Monday we are going  with the whole waxingteam up to Bruksvallarna to be there for testing. We will be there until 12 november. There will be ten very hard working days from early morning to late evening. On these days we’ll have time for a great deal of testing to be ready for the first World Cup in Norwegian, Beitostolen. Then we have certainly found a number of goldenpair of skis that we hope can give Sweden great success throughout the winter! Looks right now like it may be some natural snow in the first week which would have guaranteed a very good test conditions. Now the fun begins!

/Anders Niemi

When you are waxing with gripwax remember that it is also important to have a good basewax for success with the waxing. The basewax can both provide a better grip and better glide. So put down some time on the base!

/Anders Niemi

Not many days left now. It`s time to load up the Waxingtruck  full of materials in Östersund. Otherwise we  send skis across the country, ready-prepared skis sent to the truck and the whole factory new skis are sent for grinding to Funäsdalen where our grinder is always ready. Then it`s time to pick up the ski clothes again, too. And to take time for relax a bit now before the season kicks off seriously.

/Anders Niemi

When you are waxing with parafin ensure that the waxingiron is hot enough so that you basically only have to glide over the surface twice with the iron to cover it with parafin. If you have too low temperature it`s very likely that you have to cross the surface many times and this may easily happen that you burn the skis!

/Anders Niemi

Promised to publish images on a waxing profile that is homemade. It’s actually not so difficult to make one by yourself.

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Now it’s also good to ski at Idrefjäll! Look at the pictures and you will see that they have put out a good bed with artificial snow on a 2km long loop, it goes really well to go on new skis up there if you’re eager to try your new skis.

/Anders Niemi

Do you have any questions about waxing do not hesitate to write your question in the comment field! So will i try to answer your question! Maybe you have questions about structures or how to best wax with klister.
/Anders Niemi

We still working hard, iam just wondering how much parafin we use in a season? Now when i am preparing the skis i has just done up by myself some kilos!

/Anders Niemi

Today the A-team finished their camp in Bruksvallarna. We have more than a week left until we waxers go up to Bruksvallarna for testing new skis. So right now we are working hard with the preparations to the camp. Hope it becomes a bit more cold nights, so it can be made more artificial snow up there so that we can test skis even down in the village.

/Anders Niemi

If you are located in Falun tomorrow, you should come and look at the waxingtruck that will be at Intersport! Mats will as normally be in place and give you tips on waxing!

You have well seen the number plate on the truck! WAXERS !!!

/Anders Niemi

When you wax your skiis with kickwax, it is much better to use many thin layers than a few thick layers!

Picture of a fine classic ski trail at  Bruksvallarna

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The bus that was in Munich passed just Mora with Mats as the driver and Lorentz as entertainer! They stopped by and picked up little pack of skiis for Lorentz to grind.

Some pictures from Bruksvallarna where now both A-and U-team are in camp, where among other things they today had a very hard workouts in the morning and the athletes have also had some photoshooting on the schedule during the day!

/Anders Niemi

The days roll on fast now, there are a lot of work to do before we can start testing the new skis! The days consist of preparation of skis and some other things that need to be prepared at home before the season kicks off . Conditions  in Bruksvallarna for test is good up on Kläppen but otherwise a bit hard to get really good tests. But Stefan works on there a few more days before the camp ends with a bit of testing and service to the athletes and a bit self-training! Since the camp moved became a minibus left in Munich with a lot of skis and other materials, it has to go home this week, Mats is down there to pick it up and take the opportunity to visit some factories! The waxtruck has this weekend been in Östersund, in connection with the ski exhibition there. Mats were also having a lecture about waxing there on Saturday!

/Anders Niemi

We arrive at the competition site the first thing you do is check out how the tracks look like then you go back to the truck where we might go through what to test, we begin to do the final preparation of racing skis, and helps make the system for the testskiis. Both glide and grip wax tests usually starts about two hours before the first start.

We usually get the glidetest first so that we can make the glide on skis ready, about one and a half hours before we find out about how it looks with gripwax, we usually have a waxing place close the track where we make the final  waxing then we can also get the final reports of the gripwax testpilot. Then we help the skier to test their skis and usually make a small correction before it is completely clear. Then, it is just  hope that you managed to do your job!

/Anders  Niemi

Our glide tester Stefan reports that there are excellent conditions in Bruksvallarna. It is possible to test new skis there! Sounds really good for us, we will wait for a few days because it’ll be a bit warmer for a few days now, before we send up more waxers. But Stefan has begun testing, including various structures. Otherwise, the work rolls on as usual with the preparation of skis and a bit different preparation before the season kicks off.

See the image with Jesper Modin from Bruksvallarna! Fantastic skiing!

www.jespermodin.com

/Anders Niemi

Do you think that waxing is difficult and complicated? The mystery of a successful waxing is to work systematically, keeping it all simple, and perhaps most important to work hard. If you succeed to fill in these three points, you can almost expect to succeed with a competition waxing.

If you have any questions about waxing leave a comment and we’ll try to answer your question!

/Anders Niemi

Now you can really go skiing! A-Team goes to Bruksvallarna for a ten-day camp today. The conditions which is to be first class for a snow camp in October with 3-4 dm of snow and a variety of tracks drawn up.

We’ll also send up Stefan, our glide tester, directly today to check out the situation and to implement a lot of testing there. If there is good test conditions we will possibly send more waxers to join a little later in the week. Being able to begin testing new skis so early would mean that we are well placed before the first World Cup in Norway !

/Anders Niemi

Nu har visst en del skidåkare hittat snön och börjat träna på skidor, sägs vara riktigt fina förhållanden i trakterna kring Bruksvallarna med en hel del snö faktiskt och mycket bra med spår.  Men vi vallare fortsätter å slita på med preparering av skidorna, man får undan en hel del skidor när man har hela dagar på sig så det mesta av det gamla skidorna börjar bli klara men vi har många nya skidor som fortfarande är på slip som också ska prepareras framöver.

A-laget skall ju åka  på läger på måndag så en del packning av material har även gjorts på eftermiddagen, snöläget i mellan-europa är ju inte den bästa för tillfället med i princip endast Ramsau i Österrike som kan erbjuda lite åkning. Men det kanske blir så att laget stannar hemma i Sverige  istället eftersom några platser här hemma erbjuder fina spår.

/Anders Niemi

Ännu en dag med fint höstväder ute men vi vallare har som vanligt hårda arbetsdagar ståendes i en källare med fortsatt mättning, vallachefen Larry har under dagen mixat och trixat med en massa spännande blandningar på fästvalla som nu står och väntar på att bli testade. Oftast krånglar vi inte till fästvallningarna speciellt mycket under tävlingarna utan håller oss till enkla vallningar men ibland kan det vara kul och spännande att testa fram lite egna blandningar som om man har tur och skicklighet en dag kan vara det som gör att en åkare lyckas extra bra.

Det har även under dagen varit förbi en del åkare som varit intresserade över deras nya skidor eller diskuterat om hur det optimala spannet på en klassisk skida bör se. Alltid lika kul när åkarna själva intresserar sig för sitt material. Även en av förbundskaptenerna hittade ner till källaren för att kolla in så att vi sköter vårt jobb.

/Anders Niemi

Den första snön har kommit, längdskidåkarna börjar verkligen vakna till liv, de flesta pratar om var det snöat och var man skulle kunna åka skidor. Vi vallare för svenska landslaget har haft våran traditionsenliga upptaktsträff med genomgång av hur vintern i stort kommer se ut med resor och upplägg. Oktober går till största delen till att börja förbereda skidor som testat under våren och sommaren samt de gamla tävlingsskidorna. Skidorna har blivit slipade med våra slipmaskiner i Funäsdalen och skall nu alltså prepareras för att testas under lägret i början på November.

Denna dag har gått till att preparera eller mätta skidor som vi kallar det, man lägger på parafin, sicklar borstar och upprepar samma procedur ett antal gånger per skidpar, det viktiga är att man har bra med tid så att man inte slarvar med grundarbetet som är ganska viktigt. På en arbetsdag hinner man i allafall gå igenom ett hyfsat många par men vi har ju som bekant en hel del par som ligger i lastbilen som ska mättas så man behöver inte fundera på vad man ska göra framöver.

Har ni några frågor till oss om vallning är det bara å lämna en kommentar så försöker vi svara så fort som möjligt!

/Anders Niemi

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