Don’t try to skate with your fishscale skis. It’s just too much work and you won’t like it. Skate skis are relatively short (and skinny), are waxed with glide wax (think FAST), and you should have long poles.

Videos: (this isn’t the final list, but I’m getting started…)

• The three different modes of skate skiing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KxUZkVcqpk

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