Maui Windsurfing Go Pro Video Roundup

While sitting at home waiting for the rain to clear on the north shore and the wind to settle into anything resembling consistency, I thought I’d cruise over to Vimeo and check out the stats on my video downloads there. Somewhere along the way I got sidetracked by clicking on the Hookipa tag and found some recent new GoPro windsurfing video shot on Maui. There’s some good stuff and I’m sure a lot of you haven’t seen some of this, so check it out.

First up, Sean Aiken wants to take you windsurfing on Maui, featuring some nice mast and boom mounted shots sailing at Kuau.

Next up is (Ben) Jamin Jones. His most recent GoPro video is a documentation of his first Hookipa session.

But personally I like this one better – 7  minutes of Uppers action.

Be sure to check out JaminJones.com for some nice Maui windsurfing write-ups, photos and more video.

As for the sailing this past week, the best word I can come up with to describe it is “spastic.” Trade winds returned on Tuesday after a brief spell of light SE conditions. Since returning, conditions have been incredibly gusty and shifty. Wind has been pretty offshore, water has been pretty bumpy and mostly just wind swell.

Wednesday was virtually dead inside the reef, making for a long slog. Once outside 4.5 was wound out. Wind was super shifty. Water was super bumpy and choppy. Mostly just disorganized wind swell at Uppers and Camp One. Chunky surf. Best rides were backside at Camp One. Winds on Thursday made Wednesday seem epic. From grovel and slog to totally spanked in one reach, that was Thursday on the north shore. Slog to the windline, hit it, take off totally maxed out on 4.5, sheeting out, get outside, jibe… hey! Where’d the wind go? Slog, slog, slog back to shore. Repeat this several times throughout the day and you’ve got a picture of sailing on Maui Thursday. If you look at the iWindsurf graphs for the last few days, they’ll show the spastic nature of the wind pretty well. Watching the graph yesterday and not seeing anything resembling consistency, I opted to give it a miss. Same situation today so far although it actually has settled into the 4.2 range for me for the past hour it looks like. Hmmm. Is it worth the trip down the hill…?