How To Wax Your Surfboard For The First Time


In this video, Weston Killpack goes over the proper way to wax your surfboard for the first time. He’ll show you how to wax a longboard and the techniques are the same for waxing a short board. This video is perfect for beginners or experts.

There are two different techniques for waxing your surfboard

In the video, Weston does a technique where he makes smaller circles all the way up and down the length of the board. This helps to produce smaller circles and bumps on your board. The other way is by doing a crossing pattern where you go one way the first time and then across that the other time.

This is what the smaller circles look like:

and the other way that it could look is with the crossing pattern:

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