Another day of cranking, blasting winds on Maui and more photo shoot action going down at Hookipa despite cloudy conditions. Lots of the 2010 Neil Pryde’s out on the water – new Combats and new TheFlys. Lots of Wave 360 attempts for the photographer in the water. Here’s the best of what I got today [...]

Here’s video from Hookipa a couple of days ago during a Neil Pryde 2010 photo shoot. In this episode we see lots of new Neil Pryde, North and Naish gear on display by Robby Naish, Kai Lenny, Klaas Voget, Victor Fernandez and more.
Continued windy here on Maui the last several days. 4.x sails are getting [...]

It’s photo shoot time of year here on Maui, the time of year when all (ok, most) of the windsurfing board and sail brands come to Maui with their team riders to shoot the photos for their brochures and the ads you’ll see in the magazines for the 2010 gear that will be available this [...]

Super strong winds with a lot of east component in them the last several days, meaning that the wind is a bit offshore, a bit light and gusty inside and howlingly strong once you make it out to the wind line and outside the reef. These conditions can be pretty gnarly with the offshore gusty [...]

Solid, sunny, trade wind weather finally returned to Maui yesterday and looks to hang around for at least a few more days. It’s been kind of a hit and miss month so far, as March often is on Maui, with weather patterns transitioning from winter storms to more stable high pressure driving our beloved trade [...]

Windsurfing, by definition, requires at least two basic elements; wind and water. As windsurfers, we play in the water, and for many of us, that water is the ocean. The ocean is our playground, but not only our playground, it’s the blue heart of our planet. Motivated by Sylvia Earle’s recent TED presentation, I realized [...]

Robby Naish wasn’t the only one ripping at Hookipa last week. Kevin Pritchard, Junko Nagoshi, Levi Siver, Kai Katchadorian, Keith Teboul were also on form and Mark Angulo was still trying his signature move “the mutant” including the best one I’ve personally captured on film yet. Special thanks to Reverb Galaxy for providing the music [...]

Ok, here’s a quick, minimally edited video of Robby Naish ripping at Hookipa on Tuesday. Notice that even Hookipa’s best end up spending some time on Hookipa’s infamous rocks.
Another stormy day on Maui today as cold front washed over us, bringing rain and northerly winds. Might have been sailable at times in Kihei and even [...]

Finally a little bit of sunshine today. Although filtered at times, it was soooo nice to get some sunshine back on Maui. Winds were light the last couple of days, but north winds kicked in, bringing light-marginal onshore conditions to Kanaha, blasting winds in Kihei and moderate winds at Hookipa along with a pretty big [...]

Our weird weather continues here on Maui, with cool temperatures and gray skies prevailing. I finally got out on the water on Thursday afternoon – 5.0 Manic and 85 Da Curve. Conditions were far from epic but it did feel good to get out on the water after two and half weeks without sailing. The [...]