‘Bro’ Shreds, For a Robot

Dom and Bro, ready to rip in Cape Town.

Forget the iPhone 5 or the latest tablet from Samsung, the only new electronic device Zag is looking to get their hands on is the “Bro” radio-controlled surfer – invented and built by Cape Town local Dominic Young.

Admit it, we’ve all gone searching during windless days expecting waves, but instead of overhead peaks, all we found were ripples rolling in at our favourite spot – perfect, but ripples. Then you wished you were the size of a garden gnome (or a seagull), so you could go shred.

Jacko scopes out a lineup that would be perfect for ‘Bro’ during a recent trip to Gambia.

Well, measuring just 700mm X 210mm X 30mm, ‘Bro’ could be our answer for some gnome-sized flat day fun, and judging by the video Dominic’s posted on You Tube of his invention ripping apart a fun day at Cemetery, it’s hard not to want your own surfing ‘Bro’.

They’ll sting your wallet a bit retailing at R8500, but can you really put a price on pure fun?

Check out www.brorcsurfer.com for more information, or to order your radio-controlled Bro’Surfer from Dom.

During his testing around the peninsula, Dominic crossed paths with Sunset Reef pioneer Glen Bee who’s promised to help ‘Bro’ conquer Sunset sometime this winter, so we’re yet to see if ‘Bro’ rips the big stuff as well as he does the small.

(disclaimer – Dom takes no responsibility for the soundtrack, claiming his daughter was the music director for this project.)

Bro gets some air at macking Long Beach.