Our first Shokz tutorials ended on the AfterShokz logo. Then the company changed its name, and two of its headsets changed theirs. We shot the series again.

The brief came from the AfterShokz team as a list of sixteen topics. Most of it read like a support inbox: how to pair each model, how to wear it, how to reset it, how to connect two devices at once, how to get music onto the swimming model, which size fits. Next to the pairing item they had added a note: their pairing videos already drew the most views.

Pairing is the step a manual is worst at. It depends on which button you hold, for how long, and what color the light flashes while you do. Before we wrote anything, they asked to see sample videos so they'd know what each one would contain.

The list was written while the company was still AfterShokz, and it used the names of the day: Aeropex, Air, Xtrainerz. Our first cuts, in the summer of 2021, were shot on a grey set and ended on the AfterShokz logo.

On December 28, 2021, the company became Shokz. Aeropex became OpenRun, Xtrainerz became OpenSwim, and OpenRun Pro arrived as a new model.

So we went back into the studio.

The finished series used the new line: OpenRun Pro, OpenRun, OpenMove, OpenComm, OpenComm UC and OpenSwim. Five models got a pairing video and five got a common-commands video. OpenSwim, which plays music stored on the headset, got a video on loading files instead of a pairing one. The rest each answered one question: standard or mini, changing the language, connecting two devices, resetting, how to wear them, and a side-by-side comparison of three models.