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On the ‘Valley Isle’…

Just arrived on ‘The Valley Isle,’ or Maui as we know it, which gets its name from the valley between Haleakala and the West Maui Mountains and also happens to create the great winds at Ho’okipa and the entire North … Continue reading

Maui time: rough cut Thomas Traversa

Here is a rough cut of Thomas ripping up Ho’okipa last April. We should get some fresh ones in soon, we just arrived on the rock ourselves and the forecast looks good! Got a couple of short movie projects to … Continue reading

New deadline umi Bonaire editing comp

umi Bonaire editing competition newsflash: with the slight delay of the uploads of the action clips and due to lots a reactions from contestants, we have decided to postpone the deadline for the umi Bonaire editing competition by one month. … Continue reading

Jamie wins at Gwithian!!

A big congratulations is due to our very own Jamie Hancock for winning the final event of this year’s BWA UK tour in decent cross-off waves at Gwithian, Cornwall. Respect! Photo credit: BWA

umi Bonaire editing comp Background clips

Here’s two background rolls for you to download so you can spice up your vids for the umi Bonaire editing competition with some flamingo’s, cacti or iguanas! Logo’s will be up soon. B_roll_p1_prores.mov (1.5GB) B_roll_p2_prores.mov (1.6GB) Article source: http://www.umipictures.com/promotions/bonaire11/?p=264

Taty’s clips ready for download

After having used up the entire bandwidth of the south of England, we can now tell you that the clips of Taty Frans for the umi Bonaire editing competition are ready to be downloaded! taty_near_p1_prores.mov (1.7GB) taty_near_p2_prores.mov (1.8GB) taty_near_p3_prores.mov (1.7GB) … Continue reading

Get Graham in the AWT Super Session

The upcoming AWT event has a people’s choice event, a Super Session, with 5 riders.  Vote for Graham, as in the words of Levi Siver ‘he’s a ripper’ and then he can sail Ho’okipa with only 4 other guys!! We … Continue reading

Tonky’s clips ready for download

It’s Monday morning, time to go to work drop everything and start downloading our next batch of clips featuring style master Tonky Frans! A total of 9 clips (12,67 gig) is waiting to be edited, and Taty’s clips are almost … Continue reading

Portrait of Mark Angulo

In the winter of 2010/2011 we spent two months filming on Maui. The Valley Isle remains the Mecca of windsurfing, and one of its godfathers has to be Mark Angulo. Brendan Pyatt talks about meeting his hero. ‘I obviously knew who Mark … Continue reading

First set of action clips ready for download: Kiri

These last couple of days the servers at umi headquarters have been firing, finally we can present you the first batch of action clips, featuring Kiri. Below you will find a list of the files (11 in total) and the … Continue reading