Tormod Martinsen
Surfer, Windsurfer, Photographer and video edit, Norway
I love water, love waves so so much, I windsurf and surf. Really love the sport because of the way you meet other people. When I surf and I meet nature in a different way and it is really special for me. When we think about it.. a wave is made maybe a long long way away in a weather system from several days ago, and this wave travels maybe half the globe before it hits a reef or something, and If we are lucky to be on that wave, that’s something special, and in many ways we are then by this, communicating with our earth. Together with the nature experience in surfing I also really love the pure exercise in it, and also love the challenge in the sport and try to be better in it. I have stayed a lot on Maui, been kind of addicted to go there, to be the in the water and enjoying the nice vibe there and I have been there now all in all almost 2 years of my life. I also like to take pictures /video, and like to edit video.
I am now addicted to SurfEars. If I forget to put them in my ears, I have to go back to the car to find them. I have tested out a lot of other earplugs before I started to use Surfears. Surfears was like coming home, no need for find an another product. For me what I really like about them: 1: They protect my ears, both from cold water and possible surfers ear problem, but also protect my ears from dirt in the water. Earlier I had sometimes problem with mild ear infection. With Surfears I have much less or close to zero problem with that 2: They stay in my ears. Thanks to the fixation wing they stay in my ears, even in heavy wipeouts and duckdives when some bigger sets arrive. 3: Because of the acoustic mesh membrane, I can hear what’s going around me. For me, as for everybody, to hear is important for the social communication going on in the lineup, but also super important when you go for a wave and be able the hear what the others in the lineup are doing and so on. The acoustic mesh membrane prevent you to end up in a “bubble” and after my experience has these earplugs no influence on the balance.