Ben Gravy poses next to what amounts to a lunch tray with fins. Photo: Ben Gravy // YouTube
Since an injury has kept Ben Gravy out of the water for four months, he’s been expanding his horizons. Earlier this year, the novelty wave hunter collaborated with a toy company to make a collectible figure. In his latest video, Gravy took a trip to the Red Bull music studio to record a Christmas song.
“That was an eight-hour recording session and we nailed it,” said Gravy afterwards, “Went in thinking, ‘How do you make a Christmas song that’s not the corniest thing ever?’ We came out with something that I love, so hope you guys enjoy it.”
However, after his brief detour into the world of music, Gravy returned to his regularly scheduled programming: novelty surfing. This time the novelty came not from the wave itself, but rather the board he was riding. During a fun-looking session in some waist-high surf, Ben encountered a fellow surfer with a unique craft: a 4’6″ Christian Fletcher “Flying Saucer” model by Timmy Patterson. The thing pretty much looked like a lunch tray with keel fins, and Gravy successfully talked his way into trying it out.
In a post-surf rundown, Gravy described what sounded like the inverse of the “paddles like a longboard, turns like a shortboard” copy you see for pretty much every modern daily driver model. “It’s loose when you don’t want it to be loose, tight when you don’t want it to be tight,” he explained, “But I clicked a couple times. If you want to do anything, you have to do it really quick, because the board changes its mind. I think that’s mostly the fins, though. But it’s really fast, like rocket fast.”
