Apr 29, 2019

Duck Diving with Johan!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Duck Diving -- and the difficulty therein --  is mat surfing's Achilles heel. Mats are so light and buoyant that getting under waves is a hassle. Usually, our stoke/determination ends up winning the day, so we accept it as the price of admission.

Johan runs less air than any mat surfer I know of, so he has an advantage when it comes to duck diving. Check out how flat his mat is! No way I could ride a mat this deflated...

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photos by Simon "Swilly" Williams. Info here...


3 comments:

tuskedbeast said...

Extraordinary photos! Beautiful water. Gnarly reef! Where were these shot??

In the GIF and also in the other pics, struck by how he does in fact seem to be getting sucked straight back up from his straight down dive :) Not the arc a board would do.

Paul Gross said...

Tusked Beast: I was told it's Bolsa Chica...


:)

tuskedbeast said...

Glad to see SoCal is seeing such environmental progress!