the running surfaces of a pair of skis and they were finished by being spread evenly over the surfaces with a piece of gauze two skiers who were instructors of the all japan ski league and representative players at the japan national games wore the skies and tested them ten times the test course had an average slant of 15 u00b0 and a distance of 250 meters average times required for the skies are as given in the following table 1 table 1__________________________________________________________________________ time second skis with c this invention waxsnow b competition wax ga in ga znconditions a multi purpose wax b 1 b 2 ga alone 60 40 80 20__________________________________________________________________________atmospheric 24 73 21 24 21 39 21 14 20 97 temperature 5 u00b0 c snowtemperature 6 u00b0 c snow condition fresh snowatmospheric 22 50 20 61 21 24 20 12temperature 0 u00b0 c snowtemperature 1 u00b0 c snow condition powder snowatmospheric 23 16 21 51temperaturesnow temperature snow condition damp snow__________________________________________________________________________ the following three waxes a 39 b 39 and c 39 were subjected to comparative tests this wax was applied on the running surfaces of skis and was spread with a cork block surfaces of wax were thinly shaved off the above step was repeated wax 34 white 34 and 34 yellow 34 trade names of a company were mixed at a ratio of 1 1 by melting them this mixed competition wax was applied on skis as in the above a 39 c 39 1 wax was made from molybdenum disulfide alone while c 39 2 wax was prepared.