surf matters/Your mats flat

A pleasant little surfmat session from Dirk Brandts on Vimeo.
We picked blueberries all day Sunday, but on the way home I saw that the weather was clearing and there were actually some glassy little peaks here and there along the coast. Maria filmed me with the Flip cam while I rode the beachbreak for a while before sliding over to try the rocky top of the point. The tide was high and there was some backwash warple, but I had it all to myself, so it was plenty of fun.

I rode an inflateable Fourth Gear Flyer surfmat made by Paul Gross (fourthgearflyer.com/). This was a Fatty model, for those of you who are familiar with the 4GF lineup.

The Flip cam sure is handy, but since the surf is rather distant, I had to scale up some of the shots -- from 200 to even 300 percent -- in order to crop in to the subject. When you view it fullscreen, it looks best.