It’s a bright summer day and a crew of longboarders paddle out to the lineup where I’m surfing. Immediately I can tell they’re all seasoned surfers. And two of them, seemingly father and son, are particularly graceful whenever I look over my shoulder, taking time to appreciate the lines they’re drawing on each wave.
“Well great, fewer waves for me,” I think. “But damn that kid makes it look so easy.”
The grom happens to be wearing a watch and I paddle over to ask the time. He answers with a bright smile and a “no worries,” before he paddles back out to the peak.
Wow, he even has a good attitude. Even as they all showed up in the lineup I half-expected a spoiled prodigy. But I’m wrong. The longer we all surf the more I see the grom waits his turn and respects even the lesser of us in the lineup.
At one point I overhear something about a future promo video for him. He’s a good surfer and I ask if he has ever been filmed properly. Surprisingly, the answer is no.
Nat Fitt, the 14-year-old surfer I met in the water that day, deserved to be filmed purely based on his surfing skills if not for his grounded attitude in the water. So here it is.
