Now we come home from the races in Norway! Must say it went pretty well for us even now. Emil Jonsson won in Drammen and Markus Hellner was third in Holmenkollen. In addition, Emil secured victory in the sprint World Cup! It was nobigger problem with waxing in Norway. We now look forward to the final competions here in Sweden. On Wednesday we will compete in Stockholm and then travel to Falun, where we end the season! Hope there will be a lot of people watching us!
/Anders Niemi
I have finally recovered from the olympics. Yes, as everyone knows, this Olympics in Vancouver was the the best ever for the Swedish national team, with 7 medals. It all started in the best way with Kalla took gold in the 10km. But the most amazing demonstrations I will remember most is the men’s double pursuit. Where we brought back a gold and bronze after a very nice team work by all the guys. Since it was also impressive that there were so many in the troupe who performed good results!
For the waxing job we did in this championship we are really satisfied with, we were constantly in the game and did no big mistakes. During the Olympics the weather skiffted a number of times with everything from bright sunshine to rain. We were able to test a number of waxes that worked really well in several competitions! Then we had a grinding machine in place which was really good for us and our grinder Lorentz did a very good job. During the Olympics we also had a really good cooperation with the biathlon waxers, where we share the test results and made the tests together. This championship will be remembered for a longtime. But now it’s just to re-load for the end of the World Cup, already on Wednesday we go to Drammen, and then to Oslo then finishing at home in Falun, which we hope has some really great support of lots of spectators! See you
/Anders Niemi
Now we waxers have come home from a very good olympic games. We will not go to Lahti we charge the batteries for the last two trips to Norway and the finals in Stockholm and Falun! I Write a report on how it was on the olympics later today!
/Anders Niemi
Because the rules on advertising during the Olympics, I will not be able to update this page between February 4 and 3 March! But I expect that you insted look at the Olympics on television!
It has now been warm and raining on the Olympic Stadium up in Whistler. But there is no problem with the snow there! Despite the warm weather the skiing is good and it goes relatively fast! On Friday and Saturday are the races in Canmore! Then the athletes go to Mount Washington to train there before they a few days before the first race travel up to Whistler. All waxers will from Monday be in Whistler, starting with all the preparations before the first race. We also have with us a meteorologist keeping an eye on the weather during the Olympics, we expect to receive several updates during the days. That will be an important instrument to be ready for what is to come!
/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!
/Anders Niemi
Tomorrow, Monday, you should all check out , Gröt, svett och klistervalla on SVT1 kl.21.00. This is a documentary about the national team and their preparation for the Olympics.
/Anders Niemi
Now it begins to approach the Olympics. Most of the athletes are now on camp in Apex. Those who are still in Sweden will be going over on Monday to Canmore, where they will compete next weekend! Weather in Whistler right now looks like it’s quite warm winds coming into the competition area. Can probably expect that there will be some special weather in the weeks that we are on site. You have to have a bit different skis prepared and to take a decision shortly before the start what to ski on! It will certainly be some excitement when you see our skiers start away before you see how it will go. The races in Canmore is only seen as a run through of what is to come. Right now our two grindmachines is packed up and installed on site in a garage in Whistler!
/Anders Niemi
Now is the Swedish championships over. Many skier showed good form. It was pretty easy waxing conditions up in Piteå. With stable weather all week. Although you could still see quite large differences between how the various clubs had succeeded. At the end of this week, some waxers will travel over to Whistler and in early February the last of us will join them.
/Anders Niemi
Yesterday was the national team skiers in good shape, we saw a really good race from Haag and Kalla. In the men showed Hellner that he is to be reckoned with during the Olympics. The weather here in Piteå has been stable. The tracks up here are cruelly good. Tomorrow’s sprint race will be very exciting to see!
/Anders Niemi
Wow what a weekend it was in Otepää. Many good results from our athletes! We got really good with the skis during the weekend. Now we have pack up everything for the Olympics and will sent it to Vancouver tomorrow. On Wednesday evening begins the Swedish championship in Piteå! Some of us waxers will be up there. Now we charge the batteries again!
/Anders Niemi
We are now in place in Otepää, we where flying here today with Ski Force One. It’s cold here and the tracks look good. Tomorrow we will try some skis and a bit different grip waxes. There should be no problem with finding the right wax. After these competitions, all the skis and all materials are picked up to be sent over to Vancouver! The truck will be rented out when we are away at the Olympics.
/Anders Niemi
Now this year’s tour is over! Now we are traveling home to rest up us again before we go to Estonia. We had with us a lot of good results on the tour which is pleasing. Would also like to say that we waxers have done well with what we do. Especially during the last two classic races, we had really good skis. Toblach was a new place on the tour, which we will gladly return again next year! Now we go on to new goals!
/Anders Niemi
Today went quite well, it was a bit exciting conditions. But we did really well today! The girls skied good! Things are going well now. Tomorrow is the last day of this year’s tour. We are really charged now. Tomorrow we go all in! It was really nowax conditions today for the girls.
/Anders Niemi
Today has been snowing quite a lot. We have tested nowax skis. It worked well. Tomorrow is competition again! We are loaded and look forward to new victories. Today we have prepared a little different skis until tomorrow. Here we go for victory!
/Anders Niemi
It has certainly snowed 10cm during the night here and it continues to snowing. Soon we will watch a documentary to be broadcast on SVT before the Olympics. It is a documentary on the preparations to the Olympics in Vancouver. We have had a television team who followed us during the autumn and winter.
/Anders Niemi
Now we are on site at hotel ancona. Today it has gone very well for us with very good results! Today was actually a bit tricky with the waxing but we did good. Tomorrow is a rest day but we will be ready to do some different tests in the afternoon. The reports says that it will be snowing a lot here in the coming days. Now we load on to the final races.
/Anders Niemi
yes ! Victory for rickardsson today. Now we are traveling to val di fiemme. /anders niemi
Hellner on the podium today! It was a really fun race today. The best in this year’s tour so far! On the morning, some of us waxers skied half the distance down to the goal for testing the powders at a longer distance. Tomorrow it will be a short classic race. We have Hellner still at the top!
/Anders Niemi
now we are in toblach ! The conditions is very good here! Tomorrow we have race again ! A long distans race. Can be little tricky to find a good powder ! /anders niemi
A great day today for the swedish team! Jönsson and Hellner on the podium! A really nice day in the difficult conditions on the track! It was not a world cup quality on the track today! Tomorrow we travel to Toblach! /Anders Niemi
now we are traveling in the car to praha. Will be there at midnigt. Tomorrow we have a sprint race in the evening.
Now we have run the first race. The conditions today was pretty good, a bit loose on the fresh snow that came during the race meant that it went a bit slower. We got with us some good results. So it looks good out for the future. Tomorrow it’s racing again. We have parafinerat and powdert ready the classic skis now in the evening already! Now it’s time to sleep.
/Anders Niemi
We are now in place in Oberhof! Today, it has been really bad weather with a lot of rain. But tomorrow it shall become colder. Then it will go really fast. So tomorrow afternoon the tour will start! It will be really fun! / Anders Niemi
Now the Christmas break is over. Time to start working again! Tomorrow morning we go to Oberhof, Germany, to launch this year’s Tour de Ski! We have some sprinters on the team. They will jump of after the competition in Prague. Now it will be a new period, we will be gone! After the Tour is the only the world cup in Otepää left before the Olympics! Yes, here we go again!
/Anders Niemi
Pictures from dusseldorf
Pictures from Davos
Pictures from Rogla
/Anders Niemi
Now we are finally back in Sweden after we had been out on tour for three weeks! Last weekend in Rogla was successful, with Haag and Modin on the podium! Rogla was a new beautiful place as we were allowed to visit, Rogla is more than 1500m altitude. The courses which were really nice and cool! Specielt sprint course was perhaps one of the best on the World Cup! The last day we had really good weather with sunshine. Yes, as I said so, we are now home to the 30th before we go off road to the Tour de Ski! Will outsource some pictures from the 3 weeks we have been out and you’ll see the nice places we can visit when we are out for competitions.
/ Anders Niemi
Now we have packed up all the stuff in the waxtruck, which has beginning its roll towards Rogla in Slovenia now. We’ve had some really nice but cold days here in Davos. We have been able to test the classic skis for the weekend’s races. There are currently wonderful conditions for cross-country skiing here in Davos, can really recommend a visit here. Early in the morning we start rolling towards Rogla. Will be exciting with a whole new place, which almost no one else visited before.
/Anders Niemi
Two podium finishes yesterday was really good. Think we got a pretty good waxing! Today is the sprint and this morning it is minus 7 degrees here and no snowfall at this time anyway. ‘ll Be really good races today, however, is sprint tracks here very long. Now it is time to wax for todays race!
/Anders Niemi
Salomon has a new classical binding that we will begin to ski with!
/Anders Niemi
Much snow and good weather. We test a lot of skis ! Right now it’s raining but it will be colder forward to the races. Yesterday afternoon we went out on a little excursion in the mountains. It was really nice up there among the tops! Tomorrow we begin preparations for this weekend’s races
Three podium finishes in Dusseldorf. A really good weekend with Falk, Ingemarsdotter, Lind and Bryntesson ended up on the podium. Really fun when things are going this good! It was hot weather and little rain all the time. Now we have traveld to Davos where we will be all week and test the skis and wax up to this weekend’s races. This is an important time for us to the Olympics to try to find the best of the skis we have. It is good to have snow here but a bit hot right now but later in the week’s going to get a bit colder and more snow to come!
/Anders Niemi
Sitting at theArlanda and waiting for the plane to go to Düsseldorf. This weekend will be pretty quiet. But not during the competitions, there will be quite a lot of work. We will guaranteed put the powders and add new topping between each race as it is usually very dirty snow in Düsseldorf. There is also some distance between the goal and the truck as it applies to run back to catch all the moments before the athlete shall start again! It is usually very nice races in Düsseldorf .
/ Anders Niemi
Today, the truck started to go to Dusseldorf, they will take the ferry from Gothenburg to Kiel tonight. It is a bit special in Dusseldorf when the race goes inside the center, we have only about 30 minutes before the race on Saturday to have time to test skis and test out which wax to use. It tends to be a bit stressful and a lot of people who will try skis in a smal area and have a little time!
Yesterday began the season for the biathletes in Östersund, with great results for Sweden! We have a very good cooperation with their waxingteam, this summer we tested skis and structures together. But we are also in contact during the season to check the skis, structures and wax that works. We will certainly during the Olympics also have a close cooperation when we basically have races every other day.
/Anders Niemi
Now is the weekend in Kuusamo over! The Internet connection was bad because that I havent update until now. It was a very exciting weekend for us waxers. On Saturday, it was wet and klister conditions and most exciting it was on Sunday when the track was frozen when until an hour before the ladies it began to rain a bit which made the tracks completely icy, which in turn meant that it was a bit tricky to find the right kickwax. Now we look forward to Dusseldorf where we go on Thursday.
Now everything packed and ready again. Today, the truck started to roll to Kuusamo, it will arrive there early on Thursday morning. Last night’s we loaded and made a quick repair on the Berners Scania workshop. Thus, it is classic sprint and a classic distance race on the program.It can be a great weekend again. The weather, however, seems to be a bit tricky it will be a lot of work for us. But we will be on site in Kuusamo pretty early tomorrow so we have time to make the most prepared for Friday’s test.
/Anders Niemi
Wow what a weekend! Now we are back home in Sweden after the first World Cup weekend in Beitostolen. The weather was quite variable over the weekend, on Friday it rained, on Saturday it was sunny on Sunday it was snowing a lot. Felt like we succeeded with the ski selections and with the waxing . On Sunday, it was for the classic distances no bigger problems to find the kick. However, it was not nowax conditions. Now it is just to charge the batteries forward to next weekend. Most of us waxers are flying from Östersund directly to Kuusamo in the NextJet-plane – Swedish skiforce Nr 1.
/Anders Niemi
We are now in place in Beitostolen. Today we tested a lot of skis for tomorrow. It has also been tested a lot of waxes. Today, it has been warm weather and some rain this evening. Tomorrow the World Cup starts with 10/15km. Position on the team looks good. Now is the time to sleep so we’re ready for tomorrow.
Now we have packed down the most of things we need for the weekend, the truck has already in the afternoon start rolling from Östersund to Beitostolen. It’s Mats and Stefan, who had the great honor to travel with the truck. The rest of us have last day vacant home which is nice. It will be very exciting to launch again, it’s the competitions you been waiting for all summer! Looks like on Saturday could be some plus degrees and on Sunday some minus degrees and snowfall, can thus be no-wax conditions for the relay so we have to be ready with the special no-wax skis. The races will be broadcast on national television so it’s just that you are benches in front of TV `s this weekend, think we already can see some really good results from the Swedish athletes. Here we go!
Now it’s just a few days until we go to Beitostölen. This weekend, the Swedish premiere have been completed up in Bruksvallarna. Looks like we have a lot of skiers showing good shape. During the last days we make the final preparation before we travel to Beito, little details on the truck to fix and some skis to be prepared a little extra.
When you prepared your skis, mix both soft and hard parafin for best results! It provides a good base for your race waxes!
Now we have gone home from Bruksvallarna, we’ve got a lot of testing, conditions on Kläppen has been fantastic for skitesting. Feels like we’ve had some skipairs who can come in use during the winter. We also performed some other tests with very successful results. Now we can recharge the batteries before we go next week to Beitostolen. The Sprinters had a race yesterday where we were with our actives and tested skis.
When we’re on the track, we have a waist bag with a lot of waxes in. And we get a list with all the waxes that are to be tested.
Today we have tested many skis in the morning. In the afternoon we prepared skis to carry out for further tests tomorrow in the mountains.
Yesterday the skiers had a training competition, we had plus 3 degrees thereby it was really klister conditions. We waxed up 2par of skis to the athletes that they had to try before start. Looks like we’ve found some really good new klister skis for skiers.
Today, it has been a little rest today, there have falling some wetsnow today, which meant that we could try a bit nowax skis, now in the evening, we have been with the athletes and played bowling. There where few really good results. Tomorrow is a training race in classic style, can be a bit difficult to find a good gripwax due to the weather.
/Anders Niemi
Another day at the camp over, now we have tested a lot of skis and some gripwax. Conditions have been a bit tricky when moisture from the man made snow make the classic track icy. Now it’s snowing a lot here, can be nowax conditions tomorrow again. Tomorrow is rest day for the skiers, but we will test a bit anyway.
/Anders Niemi
Today we have had time to test a lot of skis. Conditions for testing are great up here, today it has snowed a bit the whole time and been around -3. Tomorrow we will test more, of course!
Cold weather today, when we test skis the skiers may wax there training skis by themselves. Tomorrow the athletes run a competitive like training, we will be with and try a little extra with the athletes.
/Anders Niemi
We are now in place in Bruksvallarna. The weather today has been a bit tricky with little snowfall and around 0 degrees. So this day has a lot of the skiers taken the opportunity to test the nowax ski.
/Anders Niemi
Now everything is packed just sit in the car and go up to Bruksvallarna in a few hours. All in the team will be gathering there for dinner. This evening, we may start to make preparation a bit in the truck, but tomorrow we will start the hard work.
/Anders Niemi
To succeed with a klister waxing can sometimes be a bit tricky, but try and mix two different klister so you might do better!
/Anders Niemi
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.
/Anders Niemi
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
/Anders Niemi
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!
/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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