I think they used tar on wooden skis. Must have been fun.

"Pavel314" wrote in message
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On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:06:46 PM UTC-5, gr wrote:
When did grip style ski wax first come into use?



Seems like the first grip was one ski with some kind of animal skin.

Then maybe wooden skis with full length grip wax (is that right?).



So;

when did wax that can grip and also glide come into use?

There's a lot of information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_wax#History