Presents Swellboards y Surfcycled

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Marcelo Matos fell in love with surfing naturally. As he puts it, at the mouth of the Carrasco stream, in the heart of the Río de la Plata, he would hang from some tree trunks to catch some waves.

Waves that, although he says they were bigger than those that now break in the capital of Uruguay and its surrounding areas, were still minimal if one wanted to be a surfer.

So, after working hard as a DJ at weddings, receptions, bar mitzvahs, and more, Matos managed to move to Punta del Este.

But some images of Central America from when he was a teenager had resonated in his head, and one day a friend told him Costa Rica was great, and a few days later, he headed there. With nothing but the urge to surf like crazy and to work, too.

Matos is 52 years old, still surfs a lot, is a good surfer, and is a connoisseur of surfing like few others. He's also passionate about knowledge itself.

Since he arrived in Costa Rica, there has been an unprecedented boom in the surfing population around the world, perhaps with a strong emphasis on the aforementioned country.

Whether he is a bug or a hermit, whatever you want to call him, he still manages to surf alone.

He started a surf photography business more than 20 years ago, before digital. Then everything was stolen from him, and he had to live off food, working in a surf shop, which he almost bought later. But he ended up starting his own, then started two, then sold the first one, and then opened SurfCycled.

This is how he tells it.