17 year old French rider Justin Denel spent his first time on Maui for the RRD photoshoot. Check out this sweet clip he produced.
MY CAPE TOWN is a product of over two months of on and off filming in the beautiful surroundings of Cape Town, South Africa in the summer of 2013. The video features the 22 year-old Danish wave sailor Christopher Friis.
We were aiming at capturing the unique golden African sunset which gives this amazing look in the video. The filming was very demanding as the light was only right for about half an hour a day, but the result is worth the extra effort. – Christopher
Forrest Ladkin brings us this clip, a compilation of action filmed in the small town of Gerroa on the South Coast of NSW, Australia, during the summers of 2010 and 2011.
Kevin Pritchard’s “Photos for Beers” productions just released this sick clip from Maui! Featuring Kauli Seadi, Graham Ezzy, Bernd Roediger, Marcilio Browne, Robby Swift, Bryan Metcalf Perez and some sexy female curves around Maui. Enjoy, this is a much watch clip and one of our recent favorites!
Chris Muzza Murray’s epic trip to Maui for the Starbaord and Tushingham photoshoot.
Check out Camile Juban at home in Guadeloupe. Some awesome wave and surfing action from the Caribbean action in this clip produced by Ploof Video.
On April 6th EpicSesh captured a big day and one of the best days at Ho’okipa of 2013. Kauli Seadi, Brawzino, Jason Polakow, Robby Swift, Boujmaa Guilloul, Bernd Roediger and many more shred at Ho’okipa Beach Park in this clip.
A group of friends travel to Moulay, Morocco to score some of the reliable winds and swell that are well known in the windsurfing World.
Riders: Jaka Miklavcic, Jas Korsic, Miha Krizaj, Miha Hauptman
A cool clip of some French Guadeloupe wave action. It might just have you wanting to run to this windsurfing Paradise in the Caribbean.
Steffi Wahl finished 5th overall in the PWA rankings. She headed to Cape Town for the warm winter, and here is her latest video a wrap of of her 2012 winter in Cape Town. With her consistent results from 2012, and smooth turns, she is a women to keep an eye on in this years PWA Tour.
The young Fiona Wylde continues to impress at only 15, check out here at Ho’okipa where she’s on one massive swell.
Fanatic rider Leoon Jamaer scored great conditions in France, and produced this awesome clip, check it out.
Some super sweet heli footage from Mauritius, on the clean waves. Around the 7 minute mark is when the action starts, the first half is Russian language interviews, but there are subtitles.
Kevin Pritchard’s latest sport short features Graham Ezzy windsurfing on Maui, Hawaii.
Here’s Graham’s take on working with Kevin:
“Kevin Pritchard has 8 windsurfing world titles and also makes films about windsurfing. Being the subject of his latest sport short, “Take 1”, makes me one of the happiest pro windsurfers on and off the water.
When Kevin showed me the first edit, I got goosebumps (or as they say in Hawaii: chicken-skin). It was surreal to see one of windsurfing’s heroes making a short about me. Some of my earliest memories of watching windsurfing events involve seeing Kevin boost 50 feet in the air before rotating into a delayed forward rotation. Or, when I was 16 and competing as the youngest pro on my second year of the professional windsurfing tour, KP added yet another world title to his collection.
Being filmed by a legend has benefits beyond the cool factor. Windsurfing is one of the hardest sports to film, according to every filmmaker I have ever worked with. The first take is the only take. Each wave breaks differently than every other wave. Framing can’t be planned but must be improvised. The strong winds vibrate the camera and the long lens required to keep a tight frame on the windsurfer half a mile out to sea.
There is only one take for every shot. If that take is blown, the whole shot is gone.
When nothing is planned, having an 8x world champion behind the lens makes a difference. He can read me as I read the waves, anticipating my maneuvers. It’s like a dance to an unfamiliar song with a familiar partner.
KP doesn’t have to imagine what its like to jump 50 feet into the air or drop into a 50 foot wave at jaws. He has done all that and more. When I take a foot off my board during a back rotation, I know that he was the first one to do it, winning a world title off that jump in 2002.
And even with Kevin’s skill, shots still get missed. By some version of murphy’s law it seems that the best moves escape capture and must live forever as a memory. Making a short like this, even just 4 minutes in length, takes a few months of filming.
My favorite part of Kevin’s edit is that it feels really honest: the feeling it gives reminds me of what it is like to be on the water.”
Check out this video with two young Polish riders. Nikodem Merlak (Pol 64) and Przemek Krzycki (Pol-194) spent all of July in Pozo and scored epic conditions.
“Last year we spent a whole July in Pozo and only four days were without wind. After this training we have taken part in PWA KIA Cold Hawaii World Cup in Klitmoller first time. First part of movie was captured in Pozo Iziquierdo and second part in Vargas.” – The two riders