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This is a post about people helping people. Every year, there is an event around our hometown that brings together all types of snowboarders and skiers from the area. There’s music, there’s healthy competition, and there’s a mountain on which to shred.

Carve 4 Cancer’s mission is to “shred” blood cancer through extreme sports and fundraising. C4C was founded by Brent P. Evans in 2010 after he was diagnosed with stage IV non-hodgkins lymphoma. Brent, and an amazing support team, battled his disease and grew C4C until it became what it is today. Unfortunately, in late 2017, Brent lost his battle but C4C rages on to continue his incredible mission.

In the first event since Brent’s passing, the Blue Mountain Festival is geared up to be an epic day of shredding, healthy competition, and live music. It’s described by C4C as a “full day party on the mountain”, which, if you’re anything like us, sounds like the best situation possible.

So whether you’re near or far, skier or snowboarder, partier or namaste-relaxer, this is something worth a look, your attendance, and, at the very least, your consideration. Nothing makes us happier than when things we love are combined with things about which we are passionate so when snowboarding and skiing are made into a vehicle to bring awareness and funding to something like cancer, we are all for it.

For more information about the event, how to participate, and how to donate, visit https://www.carve4cancer.com/.

There’s also a good chance that you could meet the men (or man) of Grassracks (Evan will be there, Andrew will probably be planning his wedding or doing something boring). We may even decide to give away some snowboard racks or ski racks depending on our mood. Maybe some Pro Deals, maybe some swag, who knows.

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About Grassracks: Grassracks is an American brand and manufacturer whose mission is to make the highest quality ski racks and snowboard racks on the planet and for the planet. We do this by using strong, gorgeous, incredibly eco-friendly bamboo (and processes) to deliver direct-to-consumer racks to passionate athletes all over the world. If you’ve ever wanted to store and display your snowboard or have ever been left wanting more from ski storage, it’s time to get serious and get a Grassrack.

2016 was a doozy. Coming off our best year since our launch in 2013, 2016 gave us a chance to refine our product offering, perfect our best sellers, and stretch our creative muscles with some new 2017 designs. This year we are going full steam ahead on new rack designs, new finishes, and all around better products. “But you already make the best racks on the market.” True, but there’s always room for improvement.

Many of you were lucky enough to receive the gift of a bamboo over the last few weeks. For those of you who weren’t so lucky, don’t worry, we’re making more.

Our bread and butter has always been horizontal wall racks but our mission is to create a comprehensive line for all gear storage and display. This year, we started to round out that mission a little more.

Freestanding Vertical SUP Rack

Our first new addition is the Vertical SUP Rack Series. We’ve broken through the wall and have expanded beyond the world of horizontal racking. This series makes use of shops’ and homes’ high ceilings and orients surfboards and paddle boards in a very upward fashion. This was a simple product-solution design. Problem: SUPs and Longboards being stored on terrible looking racks and packed like sardines in the shop. Solution: Nice boards getting a little attention. Originally designed to let shops properly display their best-looking products, we’ve seen many of our Freestanding Vertical SUP Racks going to homeowners as well. When you put our rack next to the industry-standard black metal rack that plagues expos and shop floors, there’s no comparison. Our Vertical Freestanding SUP Rack (pictured above) is made with uber strong ¾” bamboo, features a foam kicker to keep the board in place, and assembles in under a minute.

O’ahu Recliner

The Oahu Recliner. This wall mounted rack is super chill, and allows a single surfboard or paddle board to kick back and relax against the wall. Your board will be flaunting it’s good side… whichever one that is. One big advantage to the Recliner is that it uses a rooms downlighting as a spotlight for your board, instant centerpiece. So think about that, Jeremiah. (The O'ahu Recliner also fits Kayaks..)

Wine Racks

Finally, we’ve rolled out our bamboo floating wine rack. It magically levitates a single bottle of wine or liquor over whatever flat, stable surface on which you rest it. It’s a great conversations starter which is great for people who are frequently roped into unwanted dinner parties or hosting events at their home. Everyone will gasp at its shocking wonder.

This has been a public service announcement from your friendly Grassracks team. Stay tuned for more news including new product releases from Grassracks. Thank you as always for your continued support and stay awesome!

For a quick look at our trusty staples.. Hallsteiners and Vercules – Ski Storage. Lana’i – Skateboard Deck Racks. Moloka’i – Skateboard and Snowboard Racks. Kaua’I – Surf Racks. O’ahu – SUP Racks. Rackcycle – Bike Racks or Bike Shelves/Bike Racks. This blog is meant to feature some of the new products we have been rolling out over the past few months and perhaps a few hints towards future products.

The #ShowUsYourRack Contest has returned – Post a Pic, Tell your friends, Win a Rack!

It’s that time of year.. The time where Grassracks customers have a chance to show off their wall racks, floating shelves, bar stools, and coffee tables for a chance to win more of our awesome bamboo products. Our customers have great equipment, awesome homes, and great stories and we want to see and know all of it.

So, what do we want? We want to see your racks in action. Surfers, we want to see the story of an epic quiver in need of a worthy surf rack. Skiers, show us the skis you’ve accumulated over the years from skiboards and parabolics to the fatty powder babies you rock today. Did our snowboard rack bring order to your family’s entryway? Are you an eco-warrior in search of a stylish bike shelf for your tight city apartment? Show us! Tell us your story!

Have fun with it, be creative, post great pics. We will feature our favorite pictures over the course of the summer so make sure they’re good! Here’s how to enter..

Step 1: Take a picture of your rack in use.

Step 2: Use Facebook,  Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. to create the perfect post.

• Apply whatever fancy filters you like.
• Caption your pictures. Be sure to include the #ShowUsYourRack hashtag, a hashtag that pertains to your sport (i.e. #skirack), and tag @Grassracks.
• POST! Show your friends and make sure we can see it, too! (Make your post “Public”)

Step 3: Share with your friends. Encourage engagement. We want to see people liking and commenting on your entry!

Boom, that’s it. You’re finished! We’ll be looking for the best of the best, so make your post great. The better your rack looks, the better the story, and the more engagement, the better your chances of winning.

And there’s no limit to how many you can post! Want to throw in a selfie with you, your rack, and your gear? Go right ahead! Or are you especially proud of your mount and setup? We want to see that too. Remember, posting more than one good quality picture will only help your chances.

The #ShowUsYourRack contest will start July 1st and will end July 17th.

Questions or comments? Simply email info@grassracks.com, and we’ll get back to you just as soon as we can.

The #ShowUsYourRack contest is the first of 2 contests we will run this summer, the first is customer exclusive and second will include anyone with the capability of living our Grassracks lifestyle. Grassracks will feature its favorite posts from the contest throughout the contest via social media platforms and website. By entering you agree to allow Grassracks to reshare your posts (with credit given to your account) and that you are an authentic Grassracks customer with your own original post to which you own the rights.

There is no doubt that rising temperatures signify a change of seasons. Spring is here and you know what that means, Spring Cleaning.

Yes, that bittersweet time of year when we clean out the house. We organize, complete projects, and get things back in order. We get our home to a point that’s livable and are sure that it will never get cluttered again..before life happens.

The change in season begs some important questions:

- What do I do with my winter gear when it’s no longer winter?

- How should I take care of the gear that I’ve spent hundreds and thousands of dollars to acquire?

- How do you organize this stuff if you have A LOT of gear?

What do I do with my winter gear when it’s no longer winter?

For the avid outdoorsman, Spring also brings a change in sport. Your winter gear, which has served you so well in the snow, needs to find a place to rest in the off season. Your summer gear-- bike, surfboard, paddle board, wakeboard, or longboard-- awakens from its hibernation. The easy solution is to toss your gear in the basement to forget for the next 7 months. Spoiler Alert: You will have the same reaction every November! How did these get so rusty!? Where did this chip come from!? How did these get so moldy and scratched up!?

Perhaps you’re familiar with this dilemma. Your skis or snowboard are practically family but it’s hard to find them a home within your home. You can’t throw them under the bed, your closet is already bursting at the seams, and, for the love of everything good, don’t relegate your gear to the dark abyss of the basement. This is gorgeous gear, it deserves to be protected and displayed.

How should I take care of the gear that I’ve spent hundreds and thousands of dollars to acquire?

We’ve all gotten the talk from our parents about taking care of our things. “Take good care of your belongings and they will last you a lifetime.” Fortunately with age comes wisdom and mom and dad were right. That mantra doesn’t just apply to your car, house, or phone, it very much applies to skis and snowboards.

So what does proper snowboard and ski storage entail? They should be kept in a place that is safe and dry. Moisture and humidity creates rust and mold on your gear. Your gear is meant to get wet but not stay wet permanently. Wet or humid conditions can create situations where you gear deteriorates faster than normal.

How do you organize this stuff if you have A LOT of gear?

Keeping your equipment safe can happen in a number of different ways but always involves some sort of organization. There are sports closets and storage rooms, floor racks, ceiling racks, and the very popular wall rack. While we have a few floor racks, we realized that the most practical way to store summer and winter gear is generally to mount it on the wall. This opens up the floor, makes use of otherwise wasted wall space, and keeps your equipment out of harm’s way while putting it somewhere it can be easily accessed and appreciated. After all, you’ve spent lots of hard-earned money on your gear, shouldn’t you put it somewhere that it can remind you of some of your best memories?

Spring Cleaning doesn’t have to be so daunting, but it does need a plan. Luckily, we have you covered there. Your boards, bikes, and skis no longer have to part of the problem but can instead be one of the easiest solutions. Our racks have been meticulously measured to give your boards, bikes, and skis, the right about of room to keep them safe and show them off. Our bamboo & designs are gorgeous and strong to accent and support even the heaviest boards. Finally, our installation system is the easiest and most versatile on the market allowing you to adjust for different boards or easily change Series all together for different sports.

Now all that’s left is to decide which wall gets to boast your finest stuff and where to put your old photo albums..

Surfers are a special breed.  We have our own distinct lifestyle, culture, and unique community.  People don’t always get us and we don’t always get other people.

Not just anyone can be a surfer; perhaps this is what sets us apart.  Surfers are truly mavericks.

Our differences are found deep down in our core.  You can’t just move to the beach, buy a surfboard, wetsuit, and cool bamboo surf rack and call yourself a surfer. It’s certainly not walking around the beach in swim attire with chiseled abs. Being a surfer is a mindset and way of life, a journey rather than a sprint. Becoming a true surfer cannot be achieved in one day but rather takes years, it’s a total physical and mental transformation.

We learn some of our most important life lessons in the ocean. These lessons become part of our character and how we take on the world.

Resolution

Surfing is a journey as is each day on the water. Nobody ever goes out intending to catch one wave and call it a day. It takes a combination of strength of endurance to get through each session. We made a joke about abs, but surfers have to be fit. Not Hanz and Franz meathead fit, but strong throughout our body and mind. We need to be physically strong to paddle through the break and catch waves but we also need the drive and resolution to keep going even when we’re getting pounded. The ocean is a powerful thing and it takes the drive, strength, and endurance to navigate it.

Good things take time and most of the time the good part doesn’t come until you’ve put in a lot of work and hurdled some major obstacles.

Foresight

Keep a weathered eye on the horizon. We spend countless hours watching lineups with our back to the beach waiting for our wave. Dare we say that we have good anticipation and foresight that translates to our daily lives? This may not mean we stick to plans but the ocean has taught us a great lesson about thinking about the future and what may come. It also teaches us patience..

Patience

We’ve all spent hours on the ocean waiting for that perfect wave. It’s an easy place to learn patience but has often left us not fully satisfied. Surfing is a lot like golf, you can hit 83 mediocre shots and then when you’re about to sell your clubs you hit an impossible 8-iron from the rough and land it 2 feet from the pin. Faith restored.

While surfing is almost always less frustrating than golf, it’s that perfect wave that keeps us coming back and the patience that gets us there.

Courage

Nobody’s ever looked at a 50 ft. wave and not felt intimidated. As commonplace as it may now seem, it takes courage to venture into the ocean, as land mammals, amidst storm swells, blind to what’s below, and do what we have learned to love. The power of nature and the ocean is tremendous and we are but tiny specks on an enormously powerful planet. There are big scary (beautiful) fish down there in addition to sharp coral and powerful rip currents ready to welcome us to stay with them.

We’re courageous. Look at the superheroes and superheroines that surf Mavericks and Cyclops and tell us they don’t have major cojones. Impossible.

Balance

If you don’t have balance, you fall off your surfboard, duh. Obviously you need great balance to ride a wave, keep from capsizing while scoping the lineup, and paddling through the break. This is one of many characteristics that carries through to our life. While others may thinking our surfing means we play too much and need to focus more on life, we plead the contrary. We’re here for a good time not a long time. We’re here to have FUN.

It’s so easy to get wrapped up with work and life but hard to remember to keep that balance. Like yoga, fitness, and church for some, surf is what brings us back to a place where we step back, relax, and remember why we’re here.

One of the most important parts of balance is recognizing our relationship with the environment. After all, if we don’t take care of it, we may find ourselves paddling out through empty bottles in a lifeless ocean full of dangerous microplastics.

In a world full of cell phones and computer screens, surfing is our escape. It brings us back to nature and gets us away from the annoyances and hassles of everyday life. Out on the water we get a chance to meditate and appreciate life without buzzing or horn honking, just the steady crash of waves. It’s where we go to relax but where we end up doing most of the learning the shapes the people we are and will become.