Really great look behind the scenes, and at the history of the famous Nixon Jibfest. I remember seeing the video of the original one back in 2002, had that on repeat for a long time. The energy in gatherings like this is truly immense.
With the days starting to get shorter, and while it’s still hot out here is a fun project to get you going and your ski’s ready for the first day this winter. Anyone who has waxed their own ski’s before know what’s going on here, but might not have added these couple steps. With the point of waxing to get the wax deep in the pores of the ski base, hot boxing gets you that much further. A Hot Box is an expensive piece of equipment that is a staple of any high end wax house. Its purpose is after you finish ironing on your wax, you put the ski’s in the hotbox which heats the entire ski, opening up the pores even more so more wax penetrates.
Enough technical stuff, heres how to do it at your house without the expensive equipment; you just need a sunny day:
1. Unless you’ve been lucky enough to head to a summer camp, or the souther hemisphere this summer your ski’s have probably been sitting around since your final day out last winter. If you got it, the best thing to do first is to get a few passes with a Nylon Brush. This will clear out the grooves of any debris or old wax that is still in there. Next if you have a Bronze Brush that will clean them up even more.
2. Now take a paper towel and wipe off any of the stuff that you just cleaned out of the bases.
3. What we like to do before we take the iron to the base is to grab the bar of wax and crayon it onto the base. You won’t get a lot on, but you will be able to see when you get the whole surface covered.
4. Here’s the pretty standard steps for waxing after this: 4.1: Heat the iron up. 4.2: Drip the wax onto the base. 4.3: Iron the wax into the base.
5. Now heres the fun part. Instead of letting the wax cool and going straight to scraping the excess wax off take your skis outside and lay them down in the sun. The heat from the sun, and the atmospheric pressure is enough to emulate the same thing that happens inside a hotbox. It will take a little longer, but leave them out for an hour or so and they will be all set. You’ll even be able to see it happening, a little like watching paint dry, but after 15 or 20 minutes the wax will become liquid once again on the base and will begin seeping deeper into the base of the ski.
6. After an hour your ski’s should be good. However I noticed that a lighter base will take a bit longer as they reflect light rather than absorb it. Now if we were going skiing in the next day or so we would let the wax cool off and now scrape. But since instead of a couple days, we have a couple months to wait; we’ll just leave the excess wax on the base of the ski and scrape the wax off before we go out for the first time this season.
Hope everyone likes this, and has the time to try it out.
We finally got in all the stuff to start printing our own shirts. This is good for us, because it means that we can dream up and create designs all in-house. Same as we do with our wax. Now whenever we get inspiration for a new shirt we can take it from just an idea straight into production in a matter of hours.
Sometimes though, and idea comes through and it’s hard to decide just which one to pick (problem of too many options). Each one has its own merits to us, but we wanted to know what you guys thought and would want to see on our latest shirt. Let us know in the comments below, on our Facebook, or Twitter.
Ocean Shirt 1
Ocean Shirt 1.2
Ocean Shirt 1.3
Thanks for taking a look, and let us know what you think.
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Wow! I didn’t ever mean for that to happen. Thanks to one of the guys behind NewSchoolers.com we have fixed a problem that we were completely unaware of and something we would never think of intentionally doing.
The shipping calculations that were going on as people placed orders were completely out-of-wack, such that 3 bars to Canada would cost $21.00 dollars to ship. Now I can tell you that if I was on the other end of that, there isn’t a chance in the world that I would consider going through with my purchase.
I just went through and readjusted what was going wrong and everything should work smoothly without anymore of these ridiculous shipping charges. Below is the settings for our shipping, so that you guys can see what the outline is for the charges.
I’m sorry to the people who may have wanted to support us, and use our product but upon checking out the Shipping Charges were much to large that they chose to go elsewhere, and rightfully so. I want everyone to know that we were not trying to snag a few extra dollars by overcharging on shipping, and that this does not in anyway reflect what we believe in as good business.
I ask everyone who reads this, to please not hold anything to yourself if you come across something you don’t think is right, or you do not understand something that we are doing. Please bring it forward so that whatever issue it may be can be resolved.
Thank you,
Wes Jones
Ocean@OceanSupplyCo.com
Got an awesome heads up from our friends over at Freshborn Market who gave us some love with a little write up about what we are doing. This is our biggest piece of ‘press’, so I’m very excited about it, and I hope to see more of this come about. Check out the post Here.
Freshborn, in my words: Detailing an eclectic group of products, Freshborn comes off with a well defined aesthetic of simple style, developed character.
In other words though, if you want to the point, opinionated looks at unique products, check them out, theyre awesome. www.FreshBornMarket.com
Just wanted to share, and highlight this series that Eero Ettala put together last year. Really enjoyed watching all of these, this is my kinda of ‘movie’, more of a backstory going along with why things are being done the way they are, and how they go about doing them. Sit back and enjoy some of the greatest snowboarding.
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A week ago, July 20th, meant that we have been in business for 1 year. So far I have had an amazing time ever since the beginning, and I cannot see it stopping anytime. I would like to thank those people who have made it possible for us to continue on into another year. It is awesome to see that people are willing to put their trust in us, and our product. It is a conscience decision that some have made to be more aware of the products they buy and the habits that they have, and we are happy that we can offer a product that they can use. The call to action of this post will be that for those who have already gotten on board with the Ocean lifestyle is to spread the word so that our following can grow into a much greater movement than it already is. For everything, Thank you and lets shred this winter!
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This year I’m going to give a few behind the scenes looks as to what goes into making the wax. Here is how the bags are made that the wax comes in. It’s pretty self explanatory, so just follow along.
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There you have it, 10.11 Ocean bags all pressed and ready to go. Next little look into what we do, will be about the wax, I’m just waiting for a solid block of time to devote to it.
