Essentially you only need two pieces of equipment to surf. The surfboard and the wetsuit. The surfboard is a necessity. The wetsuit, a nice to have. Don’t agree? Just rewind to the early days before rubber. People still surfed places like the Outerkom, Muizies, Long Beach and up the east and west coasts, just not for very long… Sometimes smothered in vaseline and wearing rugby jerseys. It wasn’t pretty, but it happened.
We’ve come a long way!
The advent of the wetsuit has offered our culture the opportunity to extract stoke literally, anywhere… in comfort. We can explore the possibly perfect set ups of the Arctic Circle, Greenland and the bottom of Patagonia. Hell you can even shred Cape Town in summer without risking hypothermia. All thanks to these fitted neoprene suits.
And every year the technology gets better, the suits get lighter, warmer and more flexible. A new wetsuit is a rock solid investment in your surfing lifestyle. A down payment on all the waves you’ll ride in the future.
So let’s give it up for rubber!