Winter 2009 in Fuerte. Today a few videos from a winter spent in Fuerteventura First of all we have some fun at the expense of this unkown poor surfer!
Paperissima – surfing version
We then move to Flag Beach, one of the 2 days of wind I got in that month. I was shooting to go to Cabo Verde, but my wife felt unsafe there so we opted for the Canaries which can be good in winter, but only if you get lucky. I didn’t. The one very good day, this one, Puertito was on – the beautiful outside reef at the NW far end of the island, upwind Cotillo. But they wouldn’t let me take my rental kit there.
Finally we have the fun tale – Italian – of a month spent on Furteventura with a week trip for new year to Lanzarote and a very young family enjoying its time there.
Furteventura and Lanzarote winter surfari
Mauritius Lagoon
Last but not least a Mautitius flyby in the lagoon by Paolo Mazzoni, later that year in summer, winter for MRU.
Maui November 21 2016. In celebration of my four years since the longest stint I had on Maui for the winter of 2016 here a few videos.
Always with the objective to yielding as little value as possible to Facebook a digitally very incorrect platform, this morning the videos put them directly into a blog post.
Contents
There are several delights:
The cover first, my surf car that now belongs to Colin John Baker
A video from Jaws’ pass, to open your day well. In fact, today the north wind in Rome are howling!
The entrance with the timing of the waves and the synchronized necessary dive at Honolua Bay. The first time I lost my favorite lycra there, which in the emotion of the moment I had attached to my waist.
A new interview by Federico Morisio while preparing the strategy for the Aloha Classic
Especially for our supper in the editorial team Paolo Cabrina a leg of the Sup long distance race in front Hookipa, this time dribbling the internal buoy and the making it out through mountains of water.
Finally two top hits.
The tutorial with your favorite ocean windsurfing instructor Ferdinando Loffreda on how to survive a crash in front of the rocks.
And finally what happens when you don’t survive it and you end up on the rocks. Intervention by lifeguards to recover an unlucky windsurfer.
Enjoy!
Jwas from the Pass during the WSL BigWave Peahi Challenge 2016
Spot access in Honolua
Sup race on Hookipa
Federico Morisio inteview pre Aloha Classic 2016
Hookipa tutorial on how to make it past the point
What happens when things go wrong in Hookipa
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Total is very skewed on Instagram: impression and views are somehow double counting as they are related. But I wanted to value the click-through behaviour so I added them both. In this dimension Federico in English is the winner
IG likes already show a different story. Robby and Jason here still win the hearts.
YouTube Views 1 – Jason Polakow: 109 2 – Robby Naish: 86 3 – Levi Siver 2: 34 4 – Kai Lenny: 34
The different story becomes more obvious on YouTube that relies mostly on organic traffic as I have not yet grown a large proprietary iSurf costomer base there – only 26 subscribers so far. Jason is the most visually appealing athlete and Robby number 2. Then Levi and fourth.
It takes a couple of days to stabilise IG results: the later posts will show up in the rankings slowly.YouTube can grow forever and we’ll have to give it at least a week since last post to stabilise.Interviews are posted on iSurf YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/VideoiSurf/ and IGTV channels http://www.instagram.com/isurf.it and reposted to https://www.facebook.com/isurf.it/ Of course it helps Federico’s placement that isurf has an .it extension. But Federico is also very active on social media, and that helps a lot too.
Today we have the return to action of a timeless champion. I have to be honest I didn’t recognise him and I had to ask coach Ferdinando Loffreda who rightly made fun of me. I couldn’t recognise him even after zooming in the picture because he truly looks 20 years younger. I want the same vitamins he takes. The famous vitamin sea! Jason is known for 2 things. He never goes below 10 feet hawaiian and always complains that conditions are not up to par. In this, he resembles closely Roman surfers, who, however, have slightly more reasons to complain š.
It was Ferdinando himself who shook him off his armchair, promising him that between him and the Schettewi team – there are 3 Schettewis brothers, Max 18, Jake 17 and Zach or simply Z 14 – they would have guaranteed him some good waves. In return, he promised not to complain. It seems to have all worked well, because now Ladies and Gents I leave you to the attention of His Royal Highness Jason Polakow, exploiting to the fullest his own backyard. An infinite talent. Photo by Jimmie Hepp obviously. PS: no I say Jason could have been missing from the š repertoire of iSurf’s favorite athletes? š
2020 Emperor of the Roman Waves: se la aggiudica Raimondo per 230 a 162. Diversi colpi di scena nella giornata di ieri, con Raimondo, sempre molto attivo sui social, che staccava subito Andrea. Un appello urbis et orbis di Andrea riportava la situazione in suo vantaggio. Poi cosa ĆØ successo dopo ad opera di Raimondo, la volpe di Roma Ovest, ma il risultato ĆØ certo. Raimondo ĆØ quindi il new Emperor: le impression invece sono 1075 a 892, sempre per Ray.
Ho avuto la buona sorte di fotografare i nostri due atleti di punta romani mentre facevano il loro nelle condizioni piĆ¹ belle che Roma possa offrire. Parliamo di Raimondo Gasperini e Andrea Rosati. Due personaggi molto diversi, uno dei due molto divisivo, ma entrambi accomunati da una grande passione. Ho pensato – senza entrare nel merito dei due uomini-serfisti che conoscete altrettanto bene se non meglio di me – di fare un gioco. Una Invitational iSurf a batteria secca tra loro due, per decretare l’Autumn Roman King of the Waves. Le foto che ho scelto sono queste due.
Raimondo off the Lip
Per Raimondo l’off the lip alla Punta di Domenica 10-10-2020
Per Andrea invece l’aerial a Latina il 07-10-2020
Andrea Rosati Aerial Laakipa 07-10-2020
Le regole della competizione sono molto semplici. Le foto sono pubblicate sul profilo Instagram iSurf.it. La foto con piĆ¹ like vince. A paritĆ di like contano le impression. Se poi tutto questo non basta e volete rimarcare la vicinanza al vostro beniamino, c’ĆØ anche una survey a risposta secca. Risultati pubblicati tra due giorni.
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Wingfoiling Barbados. By invitation, Barbados resident waterman Paolo Perucci writes on his latest flame: a fascination for wingfoiling. Paolo can help you sort out accommodation and surfing lessons, so make sure to check out his website.
My Fascination with wingfoiling and why thereās a pretty good chance that you will fall in love with it too.
written by Paolo Perucci
Far from being a blog to convince anybody to wingfoil, or wing thingy, or wing ding, or wingaling etc etc , I ād like to highlight a few (very good) points to explain why I, and itās very personal, got into it and quickly addicted to this new sport.
About Paolo
A bit of background info: I am a surfer , windsurfer, paddle boarder, kitesurfer. I have always been a fan of doing everything depending on what conditions require on the day. about 25 years ago it was a toss between rigging my windsurfing wave gear or just go surfing. so I continued to do both. This concept was new at the time (90ās) because, at least in Italy, very few people were skilled in more than one boardsport. But everyone knows that the best windsurfers coming out of Hawaii all have a strong surfing background. The concept of multi sport waterman became a lot more popular with Laird and recently, Lenny. So all of a sudden everyone does everything, or tries to.
Paolo flying in Barbados
Truth is, the more you do the more you learn. I was always very much intrigued by the tight relationship between all the board sports, and how much more I could learn from applying skills I had learned in surfing to other wind sports like kiting or windsurfing.
How he got started
I took up kiting a couple of years ago, while for 20 years my kiting friends had been trying to convince me to learn. I have for the last 2 decades been fortunate enough to live in Barbados, Caribbean, where almost any given day you can get in the water, especially if you are skilled at more than one board sport. Itās really about fun, and time in the water. Just like booking a tennis court or a T time, I can plan to hit the water at 4 pm on thursday, and be guaranteed Iāll be doing something , depending on conditions.
The reasons why
So , thatās the first big reason I love the wing, and the foil:
1-One more option in the water, a damn good one, which is a lot of fun!!
Which brings me to my second reason:
2-Itās so much fun, hard to describe, the kind of excitement I can only remember feeling when I first learned to windsurf at age 12.
It is so much fun it becomes addictive, so much so that for a good 6 months (windy for the most part in Barbados ) thatās all I did.
3-itās a workout, like no gym will ever offer you:
Yes good luck with that, learning if youāre unfit, you surely can but it involves a bit of pain. you WILL get fit, no doubt learning to wingfoil.
4-marginal conditions become fun!
15 knots and some onshore chop? Epic wingfoiling. Blasting offshores and flat? Epic wingfoiling. Epic cross/off 25 kts and swell? well maybe Iād like to windsurf this day and then wingfoil later when the wind drops a bit!! But basically you can wing, and have fun, on a 15 knot day up to 30 kts and everything in between, swell or flat. so again, water time increases.
5-Freedom
Freedom from kite lines for example. Long kite lines affect your ability to launch from certain spots too dangerous to launch a kite. And youāre constantly attached to these lines which, for me, is not a very happy feeling.
Freedom from equipment, because the wing is small and light, and depowers incredibly well even on strong days. It weighs nothing, compared to windsurfing gear.
Paolo in transition
Wingfoiling Barbados is also freedom from CROWDS!! this is such a good thing, you can go anywhere really, away from known crowded surf spots and windsurf/kitesurf spots. In fact, you wouldnāt want to foil next to too many people because, I admit, you would not want to hit anybody or yourself with a foil at decent speed. I hate crowds, so this is definitely my thing. Outside reefs and remote locations, this is what I prefer, unless I just want to have a good time with my friends, occasionally. Barbados has huge potential, I have only just started to scratch the surface of where I can ride on a wing. So all of a sudden I am really looking forward to winter, once again I am excited at what Iāll discover! And this is true no matter where you live.
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More reasons why
6-Learning
There has been nothing more exciting for me lately than to learn this wonderful sport, which is really two sports in one (you have to learn the wing and then the foil, I had never foiled before apart from a few windsurf foil runs).
Learning has been so exciting, it really made me feel young again. Progression can be pretty quick too, so donāt buy a board to learn on, because you will want to get rid of that in a week or two and move on to something smaller. Same thing for the foil.
Foiling adds an incredible new dimension to surfing. You’re still connected to the energy of the wave , but now you have to re-think what a wave is and start looking at the wave energy below the face of the wave. It is fascinating to learn how to control the lift of a foil. The feeling you get on a foil is hard to describe: youāre usually very fast and completely silent, thereās no water sounds, apart from maybe your foiling humming at high speeds.
ā¦ā¦and ultimately:
7-why the hell not?
There has to be a reason so many accomplished riders across all sports are falling in love with it, or do you think itās a marketing Fad?
Wingfoiling Barbados: there is, in the end, only one way to find out, and that is by trying it, and decide for yourself. Good luck and please write some replies to this blog to let me know any questions you may have or if you would like me to talk about any other aspects regarding wingfoiling, i.e. how to learn, what gear to use, best conditions to start etc.
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