Full Suits

It is January and still dark when you back the car down toward the sand. The lineup is three people who nodded once and went back to watching the horizon. This is full suit weather. Your hands go quiet on the duck dive and you want another hour anyway, so you reach for the suit that gives it to you. Blind stitched seams that seal out the flush, stretch neoprene that never trades warmth for movement, 3/2 and 4/3 weights for the water you actually surf.