Our surfers
Ambassadors
At Van der Waal, we are proud to partner with good hearted souls who help us to improve with their feedback. More than change our grip for tags and recommendations (that we appreciate), we like to partnership with people who will give us honest feedback for us to improve.
Rodrigo Campos
Rodrigo is a surfer and photographer from Peniche who tested all our versions and whose feedback is gold to us. Rodrigo is a constant presence in our videos and photos, and we have no words to say thank you!
Federico Gobbi
Federico heart is probably bigger than the boards he rides. A longboard rider based in California, USA is the kind of surfer that we want in the ocean with us: super friendly soul, sincere and good vibes
Bruno Degert
Martim get's scared just by watching Bruno's waves... Surfer from Anglet, France, Bruno feedback is crucial for us to improve.
Tom Degert
Our youngest team rider is probably one of our best surfers. By far better than Martim, who is always jealous of Tom improvements.
Barbaros Sayilir
Babs is a para surfer, former paralympian, that joined our team in 2023. He lives in Indonesia, and made Martim cheered out loud at 3AM, during the ISA Para Surfing World Championships
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