Our Story

Our founder, Chris Welch, spent years dealing with debilitating plantar fasciitis that stopped him from running, kept him limping through his mornings and left him frustrated after trying every insole, foam roller and wall stretch on the market.

Fed up with solutions that only masked the pain, Chris partnered with physical therapists to understand the real cause. Every single one pointed to the same thing. Tight calves.

So he built a board around that. Designed to the exact therapeutic angle PTs use in clinic, built from solid hardwood to last a lifetime and simple enough to use in five minutes a day.

The first people he gave it to stopped limping. Then their friends wanted one. Then strangers started reaching out.

Slantal was never meant to be a business. It was just Chris refusing to accept that pain was something you had to live with.

It still is.