Knowing how Mason Ho surfs, would you lend him your Simon Jones? Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
If you surf frequently, you’ve broken surfboards. It’s a horrible feeling, isn’t it? Sometimes you know it happened right when it happens. Other times, you’ll pop up after a relatively innocuous beat down and clamber back on your board to paddle back out, only to realize that your board is creased beyond repair. If you surf waves the way Mason Ho surfs waves, breaking boards isn’t a maybe. It’s a definite. And on a recent trip to Mexico, Mason Ho found himself boardless after breaking every board he brought with him. Luckily, he made a friend. A very nice friend.
Simon Jones surfboards are in high demand. They’re beautiful things that could look as good hanging on a wall as they do riding a wave, but they’re not made for the wall. So to lend one out would likely give the richest surfer on Earth a bit of pause. But not one friendly New Yorker.
“After breaking all his surfboards and getting beaten on the sand we almost packed up for the day,” Mason Ho’s team wrote. “Luckily a cool bradda from New York let Mason borrow his 6’9″ Simon Jones channel bottom twin fin for some extra waves.”
It’s not much of a surprise that Mason was able to surf the twinnie extraordinarily well. He can surf basically anything and make it look fun, but a Simon Jones twin fin doesn’t need much help. People like Torren Martyn know this well, and Mason walked away from this session with a few snapped boards and likely a new appreciation for Simon Jones’ shapes… and the friendliness of New Yorkers. Here’s a question for you, though: knowing how Mason Ho surfs, would you lend him your Simon Jones?
