Sam Sciortino, Owner of Famous Surf Wax replies: Is there really a difference between cold/cool/warm water wax? Yes there is a big difference between each temperature of surf wax. The difference ...

Surf wax first gained popularity ... it’s important to factor in the water temperature to get maximum grip and keep it from melting. The type—tropical, warm, cool, and cold—and temperature ...

Just a note to those of you who read me but don’t surf: We use wax on the top of our boards to keep us from slipping off. It’s not like on skis where you use it on the bottoms to go faster.

Subscribe today. Magma’s new soy surf wax is made with color-coded embers that remind you whether you’re rubbing cold-water wax (purple flakes) or tropic-rated stuff (red flakes) on your stick.

It worked. Today, surf wax comes in all kinds of formulas, temperature being the foremost factor. There is a wax for just about every water temperature from “cold” to “tropical.” ...

These days surf wax is a fairly exact science, with different formulas for specific ranges of water temperatures. But does it really matter if you use warm-water wax in cold water? We’ll spare ...

Isn't it just the most primitive thing imaginable? That in this futuristic epoch where we bury ourselves in glowing portable screens and know with complete certainty if there's going to be waves ...

Sam Sciortino, Owner of Famous Surf Wax replies: Is there really a difference between cold/cool/warm water wax? Yes there is a big difference between each temperature of surf wax. The difference ...

Isn't it just the most primitive thing imaginable? That in this futuristic epoch where we bury ourselves in glowing portable screens and know with complete certainty if there's going to be waves ...