And they did it again… So many expectations to 2021 and… well, we all know how it was. Just like on those days when the day before you check a perfect forecast, decent size, nice wind direction, perfect tide, and then you go to the beach to face a stronger wind, a lower tide, messy waves and feel cheated.
Here is 2021 in review:
> may
New stores in australia, making it easier to all our aussies clients to aquire our surf grip.
You can now buy it on:
COOPERS SURF
SLIMES
SURFERS CHOICE
NATURAL NECESSITY
CURVE SURF
> jun
To celebrate international surfing day, we made our usual annual video where we try to reinforce our ethos.
> aug
Website sale number 3000. Maybe it looks a low number to all major industry surf businesses, but it makes me really proud of our journey so far.
> sept
Two new boards in my quiver, a new js raging bull and a ci neck beard. So, as I really don’t like white surfboards and I had so much fun painting the js, I’ve decided to make a video of the process on the channel islands.
> nov
We established a partnership with surfari, from switzerland. This will allow all our customers there to acquire our surf traction pads locally.
Also, we developed a partnership with two really cool guys from south africa and launched together vdw grip sa
> dec
We ended the year with the mark of almost 250.000 hexagons and more than 9600 surf boards equipped with van der waal so far. And that’s a really cool number :)
Here it is. 2021 was again a weird year for everybody and Van der Waal was no exception.
But the truth is that without your support and patience and feedback a lot of these marks were just not possible to achieve.
THANK YOU!