The waxless/waxable debate is one of those odd things where apparently competent people absolutely disagree. I recall some previous discussion on this site about wax vs. waxless. I'll say this much -- if you are skiing on any kind of snow/terrain here in the Midwest that waxable skis will outperform waxless by orders of magnitude. Here waxless not only have poor glide but poor traction compared to wax. Learning to use wax is really quite easy and using it simple, too. Maybe there is some new waxless material that performs differently, but my experience and observation has been that waxless is evil.