My boss suddenly claims that waxing is unnecessary...

Hey. I haven't even lurked here before but I was hoping to get some
quick info from a bunch of other people, and thought this might be the
ideal place to shoot for.

I've been waxing and tuning skis and snowboards for a local shop
for a little while, and I do a pretty nice job for pretty cheap (10
bucks gets clean edges and a smooth wax). Suddenly, today, the guy
hands me a couple of pages of paper and declares that we're not going
to wax our skis or snowboards anymore. This, he says, is the "new
school" way of doing things.

A few (not verbatim) quotes from the pages: "basically these days
almost all bases are made by one guy"; "the bases are not porous,
they're just [sic] petex"; "you can paste wax to skis or a board but
you're better off just shaving the top off the base"; and so on.

I told him it smelled like bullhockey to me, but he insists it's
legit and that it came from Snowbird, UT. I don't buy that, either.

What I wanted to find out is, has anybody else heard this stuff? Is
Snowbird actually endorsing this thing or did he get this info from
some kook and lie about it? Also, I honestly don't have enough
technical info to be able to directly say, for example, "K2's bases
are all still porous of course and they're made out of
Gobbledygook(tm)"; if one of you knows enough to be able to straight
up call it baloney, I'd like to print it out and hand it to him.

I don't think it'll make a difference to him; he's never been too
hot on the idea of having to wax skis and snowboards, anyway. But I'm
curious too, and want to make sure that the whole industry didn't
change under my nose without my noticing.

Thanks,

- Rob.