SURFMATTERS

Hey Paul, Thought you'd get a laugh out of this sketch I drew to explain to my wife Lesley what I'd been doing all day on Saturday. ...

I've been involved with art directing a history book for the Santa Barbara Yacht Club for aeons now; someday it will be published. One o...

From the early days of Nor Cal surfing ... Looks like the mat surfer is one of the few blokes with enough sense to use a decent wettie!

Image from 1935 ... with a pedigree including Conde Nast and Vogue, no less!

Recently, I got this shot from Jonathan J, and a note complaining that he didn't have enough room for all his mats, and the entrance to ...

Direct from the San Fernando Valley , of course... If you like swimming in deep water, you probably should learn how to swim! Is this Jay No...

Hello Paul! I discovered my package on my porch last night...totally stoked! My first impression was that you struck gold with this new fabr...

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I'm so super-stoked on the prototype mat that PG sent me that I had to get new flippers to go with it! There have been some fun waves do...

Just had to reprint this photo from like '62 -- inspired by the priceless photo second post below!

Hi Paul, Have you ever thought about writing about your best surf-mat surf trip? I, for one, would love to hear more about your stealth adve...

Tell me why I was looking right when that is clearly a left? Easier said than done! My third session on the mat came after an hour and a hal...

Hi Paul, The new mats on surfmatters look great! If they work out I will be there to place an order. The blue ones look very nice. This pic...

I was determined to get on the mat today, so much so that I left the surfboard at home. After the first session, I went on a hunt for mattin...

Hey Everybody, I've been out of material since last summer, when I made 40 mats before we moved to Washington state. That's the inve...

Theses two shots of George, taken 40 years apart, tell an interesting story. In the top shot he’s riding a Stripes Down Hodgeman in 1969 -- ...

A few weeks back George called and ordered an XL 4Gf mat. For himself. I was like, "Dude! What do you want with an XL? You weigh, like,...

Hello to everyone, here's some photos of a G.Greenough super fan work (of course when it's flat.....), reproduction of george greeno...

...it's not annoying! Santa Barbara Surfing Dot Com ran some shots of the estimable Kenny Hughes out at Rincon last weekend on a mat.....