Have you noticed that the music Mason Ho pairs his videos with could be representative of his style of surfing? That jazzy mishmash of notes that shouldn’t work together but do anyways. Those electric riffs that are so perfectly off-the-cuff, so obviously made up on the fly with no forethought to what note is coming next; playing entirely in the moment-to-moment flow that happens in both a good jam session and a good surf session. Fuckin’ Hendrix, man. That’s how Mason surfs: reacting to only what is directly in front of him and doing what feels good in the moment. And if you do it right, you’re going to make beautiful music.
The video you see above is just a single session of Mason Ho’s in early April. He’s trying out a new …Lost Hydra Fish. “It’s fast and skatey, loose and steady,” he says. Which, of course, is how Mason surfs. And how Jimi played.
