Monday, May 21, 2018

Waves On A Surf Mat Seem HUGE..........




Her head is about 18 inches off the waves surface. From her perspective the wave spans almost all her eye lens capacity from top to bottom.



A stand-up surfers head would be about 5 feet off the waves face.  To have a similar perspective to the mat surfer his lens span would require a wave probably double overhead in size.



This is especially nice for older surfers who would risk really bad injury surfing a double overhead wave. Add in the tactile feeling of really tucking into a wave physically, the whole length of the body, and  even more sense. No risk of this kinda injury:



Laid my bike down in a high speed turn last week.....



Imagining getting dragged over rocks or reef by a big wave kinda boggles my scrotomic, to say the least.



Check out 4th Gear Flyers great surf matting page here:




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