“bonus points now that you can also confidently leave your board in the car without coming back to a runny pool of wax in the footwell of your passenger seat.”

“the folks at van der waal like to keep things simple and I’ll do you the same courtesy, their design and their concept works”

“it’ll be interesting to see how the grip lasts over time, but if it continues to perform well, then van der waal may have cracked the market for those looking for an alternative to waxing up.”

“now to the most important question – does the grip work? Yes, it does. (…) when it gets wet the grip improves and when I stood up and rode a few waves I could not feel any difference in grip between van der waal stickers and regular wax”

“c’est le premier point important. Des waxs il y en a plein : la terra wax, la sex wax, la green fix, la matunas, etc etc… van der waal surf grip a décidé d’oublier la wax « classique » qui a ses défauts c’est clair : fond au soleil, noirci, s’enlève rapidement, accroche mal, demande de l’entretien comme le bon vieux dewaxage par exemple, etc etc (tout dépend des marques bien sûr, certaines wax sont très correctes, d’autres un peu moins, c’est un autre débat 😉 ).”

Why wax when Van Der WAAL Surf Grips will do the job just as well with no downsides says our multi-task test guru Steve Leeder who has been checking out this great innovation, and some cool GoPro mounts, over summer.

The second instalment of Van Der Waal is here. It’s called the Performance Series 2.0 and it’s better than winning the prize hen at an auction. That’s right, this stuff is the absolute business.

“en el último año parece que la moda es dejar de usar cera/parafina/wax en la tabla de surf. Hemos visto el regreso de los grips dobles, muy populares a finales de los ochenta, y la aparición de varios productos que llegan para sustituir a la parafina.”

“It’s called van der waal and it seeks to be the alternative to wax. It is a clear non-slip alternative to wax, easy to install and almost maintenance-free. ”

“van der waal ended up being born out of a simple need for martin. “He had bought a new board and told me about this old idea of getting something that wouldn't get wax all over the board”, reveals his partner, Afonso. ”

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