S-N Gripp is a revolutionary solution that eliminates the adverse effects of palm perspiration, while enhancing your grip and repelling moisture. It performs like “liquid chalk” that can be applied under gloves. It is environmentally friendly, non-sticky, non-tacky, does not clog pores, and will not “cake up.” S-N Gripp is also hypoallergenic.

S-N Gripp can be used wherever wet hands are a problem, including: Archery, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Batons,Billiards, Mountain/Rock Climbing, Bowling, Cheerleading, Football,Golf, Gymnastics, Hockey, Lacrosse, Pole Vaulting, Polo, Racquetball, Rowing, Rugby, Softball, Squash, Table Tennis, Team Handball, Tennis, Tug-of-War, Under Gloves, Volleyball, Weight lifting…

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Thank you for your continued interest in Slipp-Nott products.
With best regards from the Slipp-Nott sales team

By combining the box for:

• a single set,
• a single set + extra Slipp-Nott traction mats
• 1 to 8 mats of TM1518 or 1 to 6 mats of the SM60 or SM75…

We were able to in fact save cardboard. The design allows us to ship a single mat or several without the need for an extra sheet of cardboard on top that used to prevent mats from drooping over the formed air cells of the previous box if the box was inadvertently turned upside down.

In addition, since we can use the same box for a small Slipp-Nott set, we could order more boxes of the same type as opposed to a smaller amount of each of the mat and set boxes. Prior to the new box we were forced to use the boxes designed for 6 sets and modify them with a mat cutter to hold a single set (an extra mats if those were ordered).

The new box can hold a set as well as replacement mats

The new box is creased midway, has finger cut-outs and can therefore serve as both mat storage and convenient dispenser. The finger cut out on the left side makes it easy to reach in for the radiused corner of the SM60 and 75 sheet mats. What about clients who purchase the square cornered TM1518 mats? Those mats will reach all the way to the edges and will require a blade or knife to reach in and under to get the last one up. Well, we notched out an additional piece from the right side specifically to allow easy access to the very last mat even if it has a square corner!

Half the cover is held closed by side tabs and the front of the box is a modified clam-shell and thus requires very little tape to keep closed and therefore ship.

These tabs help keep the box closed

Lastly, you can be creative in just how you can use the box. Today I chose to use it as a book stand.

Use it creatively!

What do you think? Send us your ideas, thoughts or comments!

While the boxing is supposed to get the product to you safe and sound, who says it can’t look good and be super-functional too?

We’ll let you get a glimpse of our madness and what we go through to come with products and packaging for you, our clients.

concepts are first sketched out

More to come along with additional renderings. What more? Considerations such as contents, weight, ease of assembly, can the box be used to dispense? The list is long and we had to draw the line somewhere. Where? How do you set your priorities?

Stay tuned…

rough sketch

3D renderings to see how things will fit together

After catching up with each other a little I asked him a series of questions:

• Why did he switch?
• How much he was saving?
• If he knew that the knock-off was not originally designed nor manufactured for Sports?
• Would it have made a difference if he did know?

There were other questions but for the most part, these were the core questions. As it turns out. He switched because a small set cost less. How much less? He didn’t really know nor did he care. Did he know that the mats were designed to be adhere directly to concrete floors? Nope, nor did he care. Was the fact that the base was so poorly made that it was practically disposable even a consideration?

Nope, as a matter of fact, it was almost a feature! At this point, he stopped me and told me that as long as he could save a few bucks — he was happy. He did not care what he sold to them as long as they didn’t complain.

As it turned out, after visiting with him on the phone, I realized that he did us a favor since Slipp-Nott wants dealers that are actually seeking the best products/value for their customers.

The more concerned the customer is about quality, value, performance, traction and injury prevention, the more we shine.

Slipp-Nott manufactures traction mats with one underlying goal — to provide our customers with the BEST TRACTION ENHANCING, INJURY PREVENTION SYSTEM AVAILABLE AT ANY PRICE. The first and foremost goal is to provide products that we feel provide results unattainable with what is currently available. We then design and manufacture them to last because the simple truth is, we don’t like problems. So when we design and manufacture a product, we use the best materials we can find and constantly look for ways to improve the process, reduce production time, reduce packing costs all the while trying to keep our customer’s expectations and needs in mind. Let’s take the small Slipp-Nott base for example. We mold it because it is by far the most popular size we make and with over 40,000 units sold, we wanted to cut down on manual labor. We use the virgin resins because after using ABS regrinds for years, our suppliers told us that they could no longer guarantee the quality of our base surfaces if we continued to request regrind material.  Virgin ABS is much more expensive but we made the tough decision to go back to virgin ABS because our bases are designed and guaranteed to last a lifetime and rather than saving a few dollars per base, we opted to continue to offer a product that customers would be able to continue to use for the next 15 years without a problem.

Base Comparison

The bottom of the base also presented an opportunity for savings, we could have opted to downgrade and either use vinyl or save even more and use foam carpet padding. The vinyl looks very similar to rubber but suffers from plasticizer migration and thus eventually ends up causing a sticky mess on the bottom since it does not allow the adhesive to ever dry. Foam area rug padding provides good friction against sliding along the floor but only while it holds together. Foam is not very strong because it is not meant to be used a foundation for something that will constantly be moving around and will start to deteriorate and flake apart as soon as one starts to use it. Area rug padding is basically a thin, lightweight netting of  foam  and those are great qualities when you want to hold an area rug in place without adding any thickness. A base needs to be heavy enough to resist being picked up as an athlete is walking off of the traction mat. Our internal tests indicate that the weight of a small base should be approximately 3.75 pounds or more. A base that uses a foam pad to keep it from sliding weighs approximately 3.2 pounds.

The edges of Slipp-Nott bases have ALWAYS been finished to be comfortable from the very first bases in 1987. When we first started making bases, we used a table router with a 45º chamfer bit to get rid of the sharp edges. After a few years, we went to a CNC machine with a custom designed over and under bits that would round the edges and trim the rubber. In 2007 our molding process rounded all the edges. Rounded edges are safer and feel better in the hand when one has to transport the base so we design them into all our bases.

How do you feel when a company:

• pays a company to cut off the shelf plastic to the identical shape and dimensions as the original
• slaps a red decal on that sheet of plastic instead of printing full instructions
• leaves the edges sharp around the outside edge AND inside the handle
• glues cheap, almost disposable foam to do the job of rubber
• pays no attention to the weight of the total product with respect to athletic safety
• offers no warranty

…then sets their price just a few dollars below an original Slipp-Nott?

Do you feel like you are getting what you pay for? Do you really feel like you ‘saved’ some money? A company that sells you something so blatantly and visibly inferior for a few dollars less would certainly try to make up for it by giving you a great deal on the mats, RIGHT? We’ll tackle the mats in another post for now, let the pictures tell the rest of the story…

What are you getting for your money?

Tread patterns

Bottom comparisons