Yes, you're going to want to wax your board. It's really pretty important to keep it in good shape. Waxing with an iron opens up the pours on your board and allows the wax to get into them enabling you to glide across the snow much faster. A coat of wax also helps protect your board from getting damaged, and from oxidating. You'll want an iron that has a temperature setting on it so you know how hot it is, because you can ruin your board if it gets too hot, and waxing won't work if it's not hot enough. As for wax, I use the Swix stuff they have on here. It's like $10 and it even tells you how hot to set your iron to wax w/ it. You can youtube "how to wax a snowboard" and find out how all the rest works.