An awesome new video of Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Browne tearing up Maui this spring. With action from Ho’okipa and Jaws, this clip kicks ass! It definitely makes us want to get out and shred, enjoy!
The latest freestyle action clip featuring Taty Frans on Bonaire. Brought to us by Kuma Movie.
Nick Warmuth took a quick trip to Baja, and hit up Punta San Carlos, here’s a quick clip of him catching a sick wave.
Two time PWA Youth Freestyle World Champion Youp Schmit is hard at work training on his home waters of Bonaire, in preparation for the second freestyle event of the season. He opened with a ninth place finish in Podersdorf, and will be looking for another top 10 finish. Pretty remarkable for an 18 year old.
Check out his latest clip brough to us by Juma Movie. Watch as Youp delivers, making the moves look effortless. Landing perfect Culos, Ponches, and pops a shuvit spock while underpowered. Enjoy!
A big late for a winter windsurfing clip, but better late then never. A nice high quality clip from Philippe Mesmeur over the winter of 2013 in Le Dossen a spot in the North of Brittany.
Ingrid Larouche is an American Windsurfing Tour leader for last two years (2011 and 2012) winning overall title. Beside that she is a great person and athlete. Keep an eye on her!
There is no doubt Bonaire has created some amazing freestylers at a young age including Taty Frans, Tonky Frans and Kiri Thode. Now the 14 years old, Cheppi is busting out the moves with the big guys, landing lands Spocks, Flakas and Skopus.
Kevin Pritchards latest production featuring Graham Ezzy.
No matter where I am, there are 2 constants. Writing and the sea. I feel uncomfortable inland and away from the coast. Or when I’m not writing.
A month before I turned 18, I left Maui and pro windsurfing for 4 years and never really came back. While I studied Literature at Princeton, my heart anchored in New York.
Before, when I left Maui, often for months at a time to compete on the world tour, I had the feeling that I was away and would return home to Hawaii. I’m not sure where home is now.
I’m homeless.Since graduating from Princeton in 2011, I’m based on Maui, but I’m also back to Manhattan constantly. So many of my classmates have wound up in the city that I run into friends walking down the street or in random cafes getting a morning coffee. That happens on Maui too. But you expect it on an island in the middle of the ocean.
I write and i windsurf because i feel a need to. Sometimes both are miserable. But i still need to do them. Like breathing. Sometimes your nose is stuffed and you’re sick and you wish you just didn’t have to breath so that you could sleep but you have to breath. That’s what writing and windsurfing are for me.
I guess writing and the sea have become a sort of home for me. I’ve spent over 1 year– over 8765 hours– of my life at sea. Virgins to the sea can’t read the wind in the whitecaps. I suppose it’s like that more and more. So the sailor’s who’ve circumnavigated the globe see things in the sea that are invisible even to me.The sea is an ever changing chaos. Riding waves, especially massive waves, is a meditation on reacting unconsciously. If you think, you’re too slow and will get beat down. Writing, surprisingly is the same. The blank page stares back at the pen. Challenging it. Think about it too much: writers block.
The wave and the page offer infinite possibility and potential.
These two massive chaotic sources of unknowns have become a sort of home where I can be myself, whoever that is.
I don’t know if writing and windsurfing have any grand meaning or add an value to the world. But they are my home for now, the only home I’ve got. It’s what I do.
Watch the 13 year old French young gun Loick Lesauvage at Ho’okipa in April 2013.
German freestyler Adrien Beholz road tripping through Italy, as he prepared for the Podersdorf Worldcup. His first stop was Sardinia followed by Lake Garda.
A great interview with AWT director, founder, and organizer. She is a very busy lady, and doing an amazing job for windsurfing in North American. Organizing 9 events this year, drawing in amateurs and pro to events in Top windsurfing destinations in North and South America. And word spreading with quite a strong likely hood of a PWA/AWT collaborated event in Maui this year. Something I’m sure a lot of people are looking forward to and an event that could draw many big names.
Catch up with Sam in this interview as she discusses how her dream all began, and how she came to organize the AWT. Best of luck to Sam, and fingers crossed for and AWT/PWA event on Maui this year!
Find out more at www.americanwindsurfingtour.com.
Dutch freestyle sailor Nick van Ingen score s a windy weekend in Holland, check out his clip!
Pro Windsurfer Yoli de Brendt at her home spot El Yaque Beach, Venezuela plus some additional footage taken at Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
Nice short clip from NeilPryde and JP Italian rider Carlo Silvestro.
Pro freestyler Arrianne Aukes (NED 11) brings us her latest video, with tons of Action Jeri, Brazil.