Check out this months Windsurfer International. Excellent feature on Mark Angulo including our 18 minute video profile. Have to love the wipeout section at the end – how can one man produce so many wipeout clips? Mark must know a great chiropractor!

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This year Maui was blessed with a couple of really good days at Peahi, or Jaws as most people know it. We were lucky enough to be there in March when the swell was big and had a perfect orientation, making everybody go for it big time. The final clip was featured in Windsurfer International #18, and was apparently liked so much it even got ripped and brought out under another name (you know who you are). But no worries: you can check it out again here for free and fully legal! And as a little extra here’s Brendan’s inside story of the day.

15 March was an amazing day. I’d been waiting to see windsurfing at Peahi for years. I was really nervous and it took me a while to settle down. Was dropped off by Graham in the morning and then spent a while climbing up and down the cliff, panicking, looking for a nice spot to shoot from. I found a great spot but it was right in front of a steep drop and had a small cliff path behind me. So when anyone came up or down I was terrified they would slip into me and knock me off. That said it was a great view and I got to chat with Kauli as he climbed up the cliff after his wipeout and saw Shane Dorian climb down before paddling out to paddle surf the waves.

I was thinking maybe the swell had already peaked and was going to die off really quickly, but it was okay as it peaked around lunchtime but only slowly dropped during the afternoon. A solid day at Jaws creates such a buzz on the island as so many people are interested in the ocean even if they are not surfers or windsurfers. Days beforehand everyone is talking about the possibilities and the night before everyone is nervous and excited. The car park/lookout at Peahi was packed and it was great to be part of exciting natural event. Loads has been said about Jaws but to be there and feel and hear the waves it’s hard not to get carried away by it all. Shame the heli’s are so damn noisy though!

It was the longest day I’ve ever shot for and as pretty much every wave had the prospect of being a keeper it was really tiring. So many great riders out there! I shot from around 11am until about 6pm pretty much nonstop. I have no idea how many hundreds of clips I captured but I did run out of batteries which has never happened before. I have two huge power packs and by sunset I was swapping them back and forth to suck the last bits of power from them!

I want to go back this winter and shoot some more there when I will be a bit more relaxed. Technically its quite hard to shoot as the wave is a fair way out and there is so much spray. It’s also hard to move around the cliff so if you change position it will take you a while and you might miss the wave of the day. I think I got them though, see for yourself!

As you can read in the previous post we went over to Tenerife to shoot some more clips with Musso for our upcoming DVD ‘Just Like That’. Here’s a little ‘one handed backloop despite the dog…’

The eagle eyed out there will notice Musso is riding a new board with the new Tabou waveboard graphics – they look great!

We’re over in Tenerife shooting with Alex Mussolini. Been getting some nice clips for our upcoming DVD ‘Just Like That’ and had a fun session with the GoPro. The town is getting ready for the PWA event – it should be really great, can’t wait! Thanks to Jochen at Windsurfing Tenerife for those pics.

Smile, big brother is watching!

We don’t usually do SUP, but for Kauli and his 2.5 minute wave in Pacasmayo, Peru, we’d like to make an exception. Two and a half minutes on one and the same wave, could this be the success to his fluid wave riding style?!

We’ve kept you waiting for almost a year, now you can see if it was worth it. Check out Kauli in Peru part 1 and part 2 in the latest issue of Windsurfer International!

A few days ago the wind finally kicked in here in Bonaire, with all the guys fully powered up, and motivated to show off the latest moves. Towards the end of a spontaneous supersession on Tuesday night, Tonky Frans spotted this fishing boat returning to the little harbour downwind at Lac Bay. Together with his brother Taty and cousin Kiri he raced downwind to use the wake to the max, with a sick air chacho, backloop and ponch as a result. Sometimes local knowledge really pays off!

Just a quick rough cut of Kauli to show Peru isn’t just about long waves. It was filmed at an unknown spot that we called Sick Cliffs because of the cool backdrop. Be sure to check out the full length feature that will come out this Friday in Windsurfer International. Long waves, short waves, powerful waves…

When the wind picks up at Lac Bay, Bonaire, Youp Schmit is usually one of the first to hit the water. Working at Jibe City, Youp is as close to the action as it gets; he makes the most of every free moment like here with this culo.

For all you camara buffs out there, this was shot using our new camera which we are really happy with. We think the quality speaks for itself, even in this heavily compressed format!

Last July we joined Kauli on a trip to Peru. During the time we were there he competed in the South American championships in Lobitos, this rough cut is from one of his heats, shot from the hotel bar veranda with a Columbian band chilling next to us. We have just finished the edit of the full clip (two parts) which will be featured in the upcoming issue of Windsurfer International, out next week!