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About Axios Looking up the twenty-foot rope, ready to climb for the fifth time, I thought wouldn't it be great if there were no ceiling. I could climb until I was exhausted and each day add another hand change to my effort. Then I thought, would I really want to be one hundred feet off the ground... totally exhausted. No way. It was 1985 and as an owner of a Junior Olympic Gymnastics facility I clearly recognized the value of rope climbing for grip and upper-body development. As the son of an inventor, it was my nature to imagine how things "might be", so I drew several sketches of ideas that were soon buried under a mountain of daily duties.
Several years after our first conversation about an endless rope, Fred approached me and asked if I might be interested in building a prototype of the rope machine. Fred had constructed a large shop filled with tools and it soon became our playground. As they say, the rest is history. With each successive model our appreciation for what we were achieving grew. We knew we needed to name our invention and the natural choice was the "Endless Rope". The naming of our newly-formed company required a little more thought however, because we knew that our partnership would transcend this project. We shared a vision and felt that the Greek word, Axios, reflected our intentions. Axios means of equal worth; to be in balance. We realized that, after all, life is about balance. Our partnership is dedicated to adding quality to peoples' lives through products and services whose value is in balance, or of equal worth, to our return. |
"Our partnership is dedicated to adding quality
to peoples' lives through products and services whose value is in balance,
or of equal worth, to our return." |
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Through
the years my mind would return to the concept of an endless rope and I
would share the idea with someone close. One such person was Fred Maestas,
a faithful friend and workout partner who is very imaginative and
mechanically minded.