The Windsurfer - Ho’okipa Walk of Shame Raw and Unfiltered

[@lannayedurham9867]

Love the honesty and the rawness of your films…….. it’s the real deal….. great insight superb all the best from the UK🤙

[@slogo8879]

As all long time windsurfers from Europe I dream about sailing these legendary bays, so I love watching these POV sessions and familiarise with the environment of each bay. Also there is no shame in saving yourself and the equipment from breaking shore waves with gnarly underwater rocks, it rather shows great skill!

[@koav]

Great to read your comment. Among the windsurfers there is no shame but when you walk that road back to the launch there are sometimes people driving by that will take the liberty to yell obscenities out there window at you... I think that is why we call it the walk of shame🤔

[@robertallison1580]

This video came up in my feed again recently - so glad it did as I found myself in the exact same situation (and with a brand new sail and borrowed mast!). Mindful of what happened to you I frantically swam the mast around and got just enough of the tip to the wave to avoid catastrophe. Thanks for posting these videos, great to have something to learn from!

[@ap5194]

I'm a complete beginner windsurfer and I watch your videos to get me amped up to go sail. Just about using the harness now

[@tuba-inxs]

Thank you for posting this; it took some humility. It might help someone else know what to do in a similar situation. At least there weren't sharks in this West Side Story.

[@myownyoutubification]

Best windsurfing channel

[@blpblp-tj7ux]

that tack @ 9:22 was DOPE!!!

[@AP_alias]

great video. and yep, agree- best windsurfing channel!

[@ivanfranzoso7440]

see u on the 25th! ...you rock!...or better you rocks!!!! ( i am kidding ) . thanks for teaching US! Brave man!

[@koav]

Awesome! See you on the water soon!

[@SlowfingerJC]

A long long time ago I got caught out in the evening on a short board where the wind just disappeared. In the channel we sailed it has the second highest tides in the world. I tried and tried to get on the board but with the chop and no wind it just didn't happen. After a while of waving for help as it was getting dark, the current took me into the next bay where a boat was just coming out of! There's never boats in that bay!!! I was so lucky but 30 years later, every time I fall in and there's no wind, I go through the same scary emotions as that day, regardless of where I am sailing! I love windsurfing more than anything else! 😊

[@koav]

Great story, I am pretty sure we all have a harrowing story like this in our windsurfing journey. Thank you for sharing!

[@michaelvine7698]

So sorry about your mast, hope you did finish your session , thanks for showing the self rescue so important, feet ok?

[@koav]

Thanks @michaelvine7698! I got very lucky and had no cuts on my feet😊

[@michaelvine7698]

@@koav Great your feet made it. Think I would do that walk more than once which makes me think of booties, although I hate them Cheers

[@SvetlinTotev]

I broke my mast in a very similar way. I found it much easier to drag my surf a few meters in so I'm safe from the waves and unrigged it. The mast doesn't slide off when you put it through the straps along the length of the board. I left the extension attached to the board so that it keeps the boom from sliding off. When everything is packed on top of the board it is easy to hold onto all of the parts together. And once I got to the shallow reefs I could easily lift everything out of the water and carry it out safe from the waves and the rocks.

[@joeg.8221]

for me also, i very love this kind of raw videos....on place where unfortunately I've never managed to surf....but perhaps in my older days ;)

[@FanaticNYC]

enjoy watching it. keep going with thats videos. Sry for your mast.

[@costawindsurfchannel1844]

As usual great video. I can feel the frustration when you broke the mast…. Anyway you are always inspiring ! Love your videos!

[@Dantanalicious]

Thanks for sharing the honesty! Let’s be clear, the swimming part was your “Navy Seal” training, the walk of shame is the walk of shame… I’ve been their a number of times for different reasons and now I feel better having watched you go through it!

[@koav]

@Dantanalicious glad to provide some level of humility. We all go through it more than once. Windsurfing in waves definitely keeps one humbled.

[@icysurfer1]

Used to surf at HoKeeps in Winter, and at roughly 1030 to 11am the windsurfers took over. Saw quite a few doing the 'walk of shame.' It looks agonizingly hard. Cheers.

[@marcpollrich8440]

Wow! Respect! Love your Vids every time. This is a Special kind off video, wich not will be published by everyone! 👍👍👍💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@kahuna2]

Been there, done that. Only at Kuau with an 5" wide and deep hole in my calf. Fun times

[@robertallison1580]

Flip-flops! Flip-flops! My kingdom for a pair of flip-flops! I do wonder if carrying some really thin booties somehow (clipped to the harness?) makes sense for this sort of scenario, can't be nice on the feet. Thanks for posting the whole ordeal, both educational and motivational - especially for those of us who for whatever reason might find ourselves doing the walk of shame rather more than we would like!

[@koav]

Some kind of foot wear would definitely help in this situation as that reef shelf is full of sea urchins. But the annoyance of having booties dangling from your harness is outweighed by the rare occasion that I would hope to need them.

[@tristanroget7704]

I'm in France and you are lucky that the water is hot XD (sorry for my bad english)

[@mattiapedrani4471]

19:17 Heard that so many times in Guincho this summer 😅 This clip is makin my nostalgia flare up haha - 24:39 OG Local judging you hard haha And personally Dumps' smooth boulders over Lanes' cheesegrater anyday! 😵‍💫

[@koav]

Sure smooth boulders sounds better but the boulders in this little bay are 100% gnarly with deep gaps between them and waves dumping hard onto shore line. On top of that the incessent current rips you on and off the rocks as you try to scramble with your gear to safety. if there was someone on the shore to help grab my gear I think I would have gone for it.

[@Felix-bh3fu]

Great video...like it

[@julienlg4513]

Hi, thanks for sharing your videos ! I went through the same misfortune this summer, quite luckier though because the mast broke when I was leaving the beach so I was like 50m from the shore. After coming back on the sand I thought I would have saved some energy by unrigging and packing in the water. Any advice on whether it's a good idea or not ?

[@koav]

@julienlg4513 I think you did the right thing by not unrigging your gear. In the time it takes for you to unrig your equipment the current will either pull you down towards Pavilions or out the channel (depending on the ay) which will leave you in a very undesirable situation. Sometimes it does make sense to unrig but usually if your are close to shore it is best to get swimming immediately towards the best possible exit point.

[@timettelt2515]

How do you have mount your GoPro for this epic Perspektiv while windsurfing?

[@koav]

I have the GoPro mounted on the front of my helmet just above my eyes where it does not distract my vision.

[@JuelZ925]

Did you ever sailed in pozo?

[@koav]

I haven't sailed in Pozo.

[@colargol3845]

seems there's lots of lulls and gusts, so catching a wave is a little tricky ?

[@koav]

Yes, Ho'okipa is almost always gusty and a little tricky to sail.

[@lancioniiarquitectos3166]

Which camera/model are you using?

[@koav]

Gopro Hero 10.

[@oliverkagi]

are there sea urchins at hookipa?

[@koav]

Yes, they are everywhere. The reef shelf that I landed on is full of them too.

[@oliverkagi]

@@koav oh man, so you were lucky not to get stung! 🍀

[@sprecklesville]

Man I was wincing all the way through that

[@aquaman1]

Any scratches on the bottom of the board?

[@koav]

Nope my board made it through without any damage... just the fins and my boom grip took a little punishment.

[@bretgrau8206]

I hate days like this

[@pablow129]

Is the sailor you are chating with in the last scene a real person or a robot?😉

[@koav]

@pablow129 He is both... on land a very real person and on the water a super hero with wings😁

[@colargol3845]

what kind of board (volume, length, width) and sail do you use on that session ?

[@colargol3845]

Oups my bad, I just had to read description: 🙈🙈🙈

[@Wind.junkie]

Hahaha at that day I snapped my mast and didn’t even go out ,see you there soon

[@dr.franciscotorresmarquezc7352]

Had some in Matanzas Chile

[@fasullamail]

Is there someone else here who had to do a walk of shame for going too much UPwind and not being able to come back downwind?! 😊 My 1st time with very strong wind I was overrigged (for the skills I had back then), with an unretractable daggerboard and with no food in my stomach... 😵‍💫 So, I couldn't sail even at beam reach. I even thought to come to the shore by swimming, but I was too far out. Lastly I committed to a long semi-planing upwind tack to the last chunk of the beach. Then, long W.o.S. on the PEBBLES. 😭 (how many precious lessons I learnt that day!)

[@themtchannel2110]

i do that,... 'the upwind leg' - haha

[@beachsky5980]

You think you could have sailed back if it happened offshore?

[@koav]

My sail was pooched... I tried lifting it out of the water and it just folded over. I was swimming no matter what.

[@ATCDave1]

It looked like you were pretty underpowered the whole time. Bummer man!

[@koav]

That's to norm at Ho'ookipa. I was actually well powered on this day. The wind is usually very light inside and windier after you pass outside the break.

[@oliverleclere1829]

No shame, only a tech mishap.. walk back and start over with a new mast.

[@windsurfingatmeerwijck]

Dude you are going like a Rocket.. But your boom is way to High. It has to be between nipple and shoulders. The Weight of the Sail is not on your harnness but on your Arms. Lower the boom and make the harness cords as long as the Elbow is to a Fist hand around the boom. Put your front leg streched and front leg bended or curved this is the Wright position. Don't get me wrong your doing a good job..you getting more Control out of it and I won't be so tirering.. Good luck.

[@koav]

Thanks for the feedback. The GoPro might make it look like my boom is high but in actual fact it is very low for my height 6'5" (198cm). I ride my boom at nipple height or even a little lower to force me to bend my knees when wave sailing. The Harness lines are 32" long but some Pro sailors like Kevin Prichard use lines that are 24"... I think your Harness lines are more of a personal preference.

[@windsurfingatmeerwijck]

Dude my apology it's the wrong movie... The comment was not for you.. I whas Writing One on a other when the movie ended and I whas not finishing Writing..

[@Stefmeisterados]

Nah, the walk of shame is drifting off and walking back

[@jimmycricketlopez2746]

Ur lucky u were out in small waves and harmed only ur ego. U need way more practise and experience to be out there.

[@koav]

Your right 20 years of experience isn't enough yet😂 No mater how long you sail Ho'okipa it always finds a way to humble you.

[@jimmycricketlopez2746]

@@koav you're right 20 years isn't enough experience, evidently.

[@looplessa1]

What an ignorant comment. The OP is clearly an experienced hookipa sailor. A broken mast can happen to anyone.