Naish rider Julien Taboulet takes a family trip to Maui in this full length clip.
Brain ‘De Action Man’ Talma, also know as the ‘Irie Man’, is definitely a vivid personality in windsurfing. Check out this amazing documentary on the Action Man, from growing up in Barbados to devoting his life to the Beach lifestyle focusing around windsurfing.
The documentary and Brian himself are a great inspiration to follow your dreams, and work hard!
Pro slalom windsurfer Kursh Kiani brings us his latest episode titled “Homeless” shares what he has been up to since PWA Korea, and his nomadic lifestyle.
The summer is really upon is in Europe, and this month of crazyness I was able to catch with my little cam going around like a madman from place to place. In this months episode of my TV series, I have focused on the fact, that I, for the moment live a life without any base staying on the road constantly.
Over these few minutes, I have tried to share my experiences and thoughts along the way going through London, Weymouth, Copenhagen, Marseille and Costa Brava.In this episode, I have only had the personal touch in mind. I have gathered whichever clip I had from going around and put it together along with my thoughts, and tried to set the vibe of how it is being me at the moment. – Kurosh Kiani
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.
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.
A day in Maui, sharing the windsurfing lifestyle from the windsurfing Mecca.
French freestyler Nicolas Akgazciyan bring us his latest clip of his trip to Aruba in February 2013. Here are a few word from Nicolas:
“In mid September 2012, I had a bad ankle injury and it took a time to come back on the water. So after a long period without freestyle sessions and cold weather, I choose to move again to Aruba island, to practise my freestyle moves and prepared the next season, it’ll start the 26 april in Austria. I await that Europe ‘s cold winter will leave. In the meanwhile I have some nice footage of a dream place with warm colours! I hope, you ‘ll enjoy it ! See you on the water!”
WHY is a short movie about an unforeseeable change. The dutch windsurfer Amanda Beenen takes us back to the origin of her windsurf passion. In 2004 – where this story starts – horse riding was her favorite thing to do. Back than it was very unlikely that she would ever live the life she is living now. A traumatic accident changed everything and her life turned in a totally different direction. Almost a decade later, it is clear to see, that without this incident she would most probably still horse ride and would have never put her feet into the straps of a windsurf board.
Sit down with Kevin Pritchard as he he talks about his past, present and future!
keep enjoying the life! – KP
Professional windsurfer Diony Guadagnino, changed his career and lifestyle a few year ago. He became more of an adventurer and traveler looking for new challenges not only in Venezuela, his home country, but around the World. He has gone in search of good winds and perfect waves. Diony who is now focused on being a complete waterman and sharing his knowledge and experience with children of low-income populations travels to Peru to explore and play.
David Ezzy owner and founder of Ezzy Sails sits down and tells us a story about how he got into sail making and when he moved to Maui. Stay tuned for more!
Danish pro Sebastian Kornum share a bit of his life on Maui, with surfing, SUP and wavesailing.
An early 1980’s Documentary about Windsurfer Fraser Black living the dream in Hawaii. Fraser Black originally from the UK was one of the first UK pro windsurfers.
This video was quite ground breaking as gave a glimpse of a windsurf pro’s life with professional footage showing board mounts and well produced shots.
Most of it is filmed in Oahu and Diamond Head.
A look at the PWA Wave World Champion. With interviews and lifestyle shots at home in Gran Canaria. The incredible windsurfer and amazing jumper, but we still want to see him in Ho’okipa during next years AWT Maui Makani Classic, where he has to go down the line in bigger waves than the PWA can throw at them. Enjoy the video!
A windsurf & kitesurf film shot in Babaomby, Madagascar, near Diego Suarez. Lots of Lifestyle from this very beautiful spot.