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In case you missed the recent issue of San Diego Magazine, you can check out the companies they covered as San Diego’s 11 coolest companies online. Matuse is the second one just under Taylor Guitars. Click the link below to check it out:

http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/media/San-Diego-Magazine/November-2010/Made-in-San-Diego/

Photos: glaser

Dear Matuse Family,

Just got back from opening day at Mavericks with Double D and his trusty jet ski pulling truck. We left early Monday morning, drove all day and got a good nights rest before waking for an early all-day session the next day. Derek packed a couple bombs out there and was showing why he is now on the alternate list for the Jay contest at Mavericks, (soon to be on the competing list!!). Anyways, here’s a few snapshots from our journey up and out on one of the biggest North swells this winter has had to offer!

Cheers, Todd Glaser

Dear Matuse Family,

Brother Joel’s second invitational was a roaring success. As the 16 invitees made their way from around the Globe, the sleepy little town of Montauk braced itself for more hipster vibes than a Costa Mesa house party.. As expected we brought plenty of colors and good times to the amazing Surf Lodge hotel. VANS did an amazing job of hosting us all in fine style, from one of a kind skate decks, gift bags, amazing veggie grinds and yes of course the best log jam ever assembled… The premise hasn’t changed, 9’2 and above, no leashes, single fin only and no interference, which roughly translates into a hot stew of log static shredding like never seen before.. Over the course of our 3 day waiting period the waves went from windy and flat to really windy and 2 foot.. Although not ideal conditions we made the most of what mother nature laid out and everyone brought the circus act to the cold front of the Atlantic ocean.. Lost a close semi final and watched Justin Quintal win the second event in a row from the comfort of a beach fire and a super peanut gallery… All in all, the week in NYC was amazing on many fronts, got to spend time with great friends that span the world of art, sk8, surf and lifestyle.. Got myself a fresh Jesus cut from Dani, danced my ass off to Public Enemy, met Flava Flave, wandered aimlessly in the city with host Mikey Detemple and spent a lot of time smiling…Thanks Matuse for the great suits and hope all you are thriving and jiving…

– Chris Del Moro

If you want to check out footage of the competition visit: http://www.easternsurf.com/test/videos/ducktapeinv.html

Photo: Michael Kew

Camping eliminates creature comforts and outdoor cooking, instead replaced by hot smoky campfires, tipsy postprandial walks, rough slumber without good shelter. It is time best spent alone. And so driving on Highway 1 too may harken of times preceding chambers of commerce and expensive seafront homes, before the vintners and abalone pickers and gargantuan RVs, before elegant art galleries and bed-and-breakfast romance, before retirees and southerners en masse fled their suburban sprawl, which people actually needed to escape so they could revisit nature. But when the south was rural, why go north? It was much colder, much darker, vastly remote—decades ago, to Southern California surfers, Santa Barbara was a fringe, Santa Cruz was arctic, and nobody seemed to know what lay north of San Francisco.

– Michael Kew