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!
A few of the big names have been at Cloudbreak, but here’s the first video. Australian windsurfer Thomas Cohen rides the infamous Cloudbreak in Fiji.
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.
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.
Some action from the first day of the Goya Windsurfing Festival which wrapped up yesterday in Waddell Creek.
AWT Santa Cruz: Day #1 Results: An action packed day here in Santa Cruz with heats running back to back all day, at the end of a tiring day we have some results from the Single Elimination which will be continued on Friday as Day #2 gets underway. Stand out sailors from the day include;
Pro: Marcilio Browne & Morgan Noireaux
Women: Fiona Wylde & Ingrid Larouche
AM: Jerry McKay & Casey Rehrer
Masters: Attila Tivadar & Ferdinando Loffreda
Results are below.
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With so many northerly winds and medium sized waves on Maui this winter, Jason and Robby ventured to the North Short of Oahu in search for winds and good windsurfing waves. And did they find both!
The AWT kicked off with day 1 in Santa Cruz yesterday. 31 heats got completed on the first day and Marcilio Browne was able to land a few perfect double Forwards. Catch back for updates and results as the action unfolds!
French rider Fred Debuire had a great session with friends on Aux Vaches!
“Well, the title should have been “Going south” , but you don’t choose the name of your sponsor,” said Jean-Mat about this clip where he actual heads South to score at Andalucia and Fuerteventura. Jean-Mat just switched sponsors to North and Fanatic.
Two weeks ago Ben Newson went on a solo mission in Australia to find some good conditions. Ben tried again to set up his camera on the beach and capture a bit of footage to cut together and make a story of the day. He set the focus roughly where he thought he would be sailing and press record. The camera is supposed to record for 30 min intervals but seems to stop around the ten minute mark give or take a bit. This meant a lot of running up and down the beach to reset the button.
Enjoy the video.
Antoine Albeau and Julien Quentel in Tahiti during the winter of 2012, experiencing everything this Island paradise has to offer. Windsurf, Sup, Surf and hanging with Tahitians’ friends, enjoy the clip from Eric Bellande.
A couple of weeks ago Alex Mussolini and Thomas Traversa went to Portugal to enjoy some great conditions and hang out with some talents as well!
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.
