Chasing The Storm

An in-depth view of matt bromley’s world of big wave surfing

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Matt Bromley’s movies; “Risky Business” and “Risky Ripples” testify to his unique ability to perform on huge and dangerous waves. Unforgettable footage shows him dancing on massive, rough, windy mountains of water with chop threatening to throw him off all the way down as he outruns the thunderous curl of monster waves.

Matt, who is also known as, “Bromdog,” has always been at home in the water. Before Matt could even swim, he was practicing his breath-hold, swimming around the bottom of the pool like a little tadpole. When the family moved to a beach house in Kommetjie, Cape Town, South Africa, he quickly abandoned other sports, and turned to competitive surfing.

Bromdog won three South African championships and captained the SA team to World Games on two occasions.

Although he loved to compete, he lacked competitive fire, or at least his motivation was different. Competitions were all about high-performance surfing in smaller waves, whereas Matt loved the bigger stuff.

At around the age of 16, he really started to find his passion in serious waves of consequence.

He started responding to a higher calling - the wild freedom and beauty of big and extreme wave surfing; chasing the biggest swell systems around the world.