Let me start by telling you what inspired this post. I’d just finished the very last session of a very epic 2 weeks of surfing in remote parts of Indonesia and it was time to pack everything up and get ready for the 36 hour journey back home. My first job was taking the wax off my boards and as I was doing so, it occurred to me how interesting it was that just 20 minutes ago, this wax was absolutely vital to both my performance and happiness out there in the surf.