The road to the Olympics in Beijing goes through Santa Clara. For decades, skiers and snowboarders have turned to a wax made in the South Bay.
"Most of them will not tell anybody what they’re using," Hertel said,"because they don’t want their competitor to know."
"Let's just say that if you're using this and finding you can't keep up with your friends," wrote one reviewer,"it's probably not the wax that's the problem." But the center of his operation is his waxes. He discovered adding surfactant to the wax, the surface agent made water slicker so a ski or snowboard would glide easier.
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