Windsurfing at Hookipa / High Surf Advisory Oct. 15th 🌊🌊🌊

[@allafleche]

I love this raw footage, you can realize how hard it is to get out, come back, ma,age the current and all.

[@Bended-Planks]

totally agree 🤙

[@nefelibatics]

If you're not well versed in doing a quick tack, and I'1m not, to keep coming back and forth waiting for a pause between the sets, it's simply not possible to do it in such high surf. These guys know all the tricks, they keep barely floating their small boards in the light offshore wind until they speed out. They're on another level!

[@Bended-Planks]

@@nefelibatics just like you said, it's not easy to wait for the right moment. In any case, the average board volume was 83 - 88 liters

[@icysurfer1]

Awesome. 4 Years there as a surfer, We watched these guys after the wind came up, and replaced 'em, at 430pm +/- after work, when the wind died daily in Winter.

[@Bended-Planks]

still now same routine 🤙

[@SuperFlo8888]

@@Bended-Planks: you have same schedule as Josh stone in old day😅

[@RyanNuijen]

Awesome. Thanks for posting this.

[@Bended-Planks]

thankx , ! 🤙

[@MikelWie]

Thank you for this video! Amazing!

[@Bended-Planks]

You're welcome 🤙

[@Waterwind_it]

Well...., this video is perhaps even more incredible than the one of the 14th. Conditions are wonderful, but also really challenging. Hookipa calls for illustrious victims. Bernd as always excels above all. Thanks so much for sharing, and letting us dream. Bye from Italy!!

[@Bended-Planks]

Un saluto da Maui e grazie per il commento con il quale sono daccordo. Bernd e un fenomeno, surfa completamente diverso degli altri, uno spettacolo vederlo. Per l' Aloha Classic sembra che ci sia poca onda, comunque sono arrivati in tanti quest anno a partecipare. Un saluto!

[@Bended-Planks]

Morisio Federico in grande forma a Hookipa ma non ha surfato gli ultimi giorno perche un minisco gli da fastidio. Per l´Aloha é pronto! @federicomorisio

[@Waterwind_it]

@@Bended-Planks Saluta Fede. Un grosso in bocca al Lupo!

[@Bended-Planks]

@@Waterwind_it 🤙🤙

[@nefelibatics]

Such amazing footage! So nice to see Marcilio doing 360s in such rough whitewaters! Not to mention Bernd always seeming comfortable in that generalized mayhem!

[@Bended-Planks]

Yeah ! Thankx, and Bernd well-deserved the Aloha Classic Victory !

[@schobihh2703]

Bernd is so in sync with the spot. And I love is "old" seat harness from the 80th

[@Bended-Planks]

Bernd is a phenomenon, watching him is really fun. He is the best and coolest guy. His seat harness is Cult! 🤙

[@robtangent4664]

The impact zone!

[@TRUMP2four]

Gotta love the mecca of windsurfing 🤙🏻🌊🏝️

[@Bended-Planks]

🤙

[@johnmartinsen963]

I❤UNO❣❣7:14

[@Bended-Planks]

Yeah UNO ! 😀

[@petepumpkin2076]

thank you!

[@Bended-Planks]

you're welcome 🤙

[@fangiodino5990]

Killer😂😮

[@ericpostk223]

Hello from France. Thanks for the video that takes us on a journey. Can you film the technique used by some windfsurfers to get through the waves? for instance typically extend the film session after 9:40 thanks

[@Bended-Planks]

The thing is, in Hookipa, when the waves are big, you don't have much of a chance if you try to go straight through the waves. You have to go straight from the starting point past the rocks into the channel at the left hand side. The problem is that there isn't much wind and you risk ending up right in the rocks, what is'nt funny. I try to put a video together soon. Thankx

[@robinsrealm983]

Yes Please - this!

[@allafleche]

If the wind is light during the comp then Bernd is a big favorite imho.

[@Bended-Planks]

totally agree 🤙

[@andreu4934]

12:36🫨 10:50🙌

[@gatesurfer]

Few kites, no wings. I guess windsurfing rules when it gets rough.

[@Bended-Planks]

correct ! 🤙🤙

[@loskiff]

Did the North Sails at 6:40 survived? Any hole or tearing? I see something like a broken batten, but cannot verify clearly...that's a really good test bench for the toughness of the north's fabric

[@Bended-Planks]

The sail did not tear, Northsails uses great material, the same as in the America's Cup

[@allafleche]

Japanese guy seems to have a really big sail

[@Bended-Planks]

actually not, it just looks like that. I think they were out with 4.5 🤙

[@allafleche]

@@Bended-Planks still 4.5, but they are light and the wind seems really strong

[@allafleche]

I don't know if windugu is accurate at hookipa, but the forecast for the comp is really bad, no wind no wave, when the previous week was full on of course.

[@Bended-Planks]

I think they wait till Thursday, It doesn't look bad with 4-5 feet and wind up to 18 kts