REAL Watersports announces REAL PERU09. It is a 10 day trip to Peru in August for kiteboard and surfing. It is going to be a great setup with a great location and accommodations. Peru is known for its great waves and wind in the winter, summer for us. I edited a quick video shot by Elliot Leboe of ACL Productions to show what Peru’s riding conditions will entail. Should be an amazing trip especially for us goofy footers!
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Today is my last day of the Trip. I got to spend it with my entire Dad’s side of the family for my grandparents 60th anniversary party. Everyone was there for the first time in years. It was great to see everyone, and the party was a blast.
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Today my grandpa and I headed to the Palm Springs art show. As usual there were tons of work that I really didn’t like at all nor could see how anyone would, but there were a few pieces there that were terrific.
After we had lunch, I went over to Andy Hurdman’s house. He let me borrow a wakeboard to go hit up the cable park (Thanks Andy!) for the first time. I was so excited. It was pretty empty due to the cooler weather, so that was nice to not be so nerve racking. I strapped up my boots and was out riding for an hour or so. It is very tiring, but they had some fun rails. My grandpa stayed around and took a couple shots of me riding. It was a great day.
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I arrived in Florida in the late morning. I headed to my grandparents house to drop off my stuff. We then went to a nice Japanese restaurant and garden. The Japanese garden was huge and very cool. We walked around for a couple of hours and then headed back to the house to rest. Then it was out to for a nice dinner.
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We woke up this morning just before sunrise. After looking out over Maui we narrowed down our search of waves off of Frank’s porch. We headed out to go check a couple breaks. The spot we rode was nicknames “Sandpiles” by the guys.
A few others joined us for the dawn session including, Bryan Altham, Randy Royse, Greg Sheehan and helicopter master Eddie. We rode there for a couple hours. There were some good waves that came through but the waves really backed off from the previous day.
Tomorrow is expected to pick up a lot again so we might be able to get a morning session in before my flight. After the session we checked a couple other spots, Kanaha was too far of a swim and by the time we got out to Paia the Kona winds were already starting to crank. We headed back to Frank’s house for a little R&R, food and editing.
Julien and I again headed to Morris’ house to do a little more work to his standups. Then we went to Hookipa where julien did Standup at Lanes and I shot Lanes and Hookipa. The waves were still large and there were some rippers out again. As soon as the sun went down, Frank came out to shoot a couple portrait shots. We then ran up to Haiku to go see Daniel the board glasser and then returned home for my last night in Maui for a while.
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I had got a bunch of editing done yesterday morning. After we headed back towards Paia. Julien headed out to Tow with Eraldo and Gerald. I hung out at Lanes and Hookipa. I took a nice nap on the beach and then Jon Modica and Greg Norman showed up.
The surf was large today, although my large is not a lot of these guy’s large. It was easily twice as big as the day before. They were calling it 6-7 foot Hawaiian. I wound up spending the rest of the day there shooting from the lookout watching the massive waves roll in. Without anywhere to store my gear I couldn’t head out.
I waited there until dark for Julien to come back in from towing. I meet up with Frank Forbes (the guy in the Standup shots from a couple days ago) again. He invited me to come to his house and then head out early in the morning to ride. I took him up on the offer so hopefully we’ll score something tomorrow.
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I’m not even going to tell you how we started the day today… after the coffee shop and some work we headed to Hookipa again. I hung out on the beach for an hour or so watching the surfers and relaxing. The tide started to drop a bit and the waves started to get better. I put the waterhousing together and swam out. The break was still packed at Hookipa.
We grabbed one shot at Hookipa before we had to move to a different break as it was too crowded to Standup there. We swam down to Lanes which looks a lot closer than it really is. Already at Lanes was Frank and Brian. I shot with the three of them for a couple hours.
The tide was really dropping out and the reef was getting uncomfortably shallow. To add upon that, twords the end of the session we had about 15 set waves hit us in a row. Duck dive after duck dive I made it out, somehow unscathed, while the boys were having a much tougher time on the inside with those big boards.
After shooting for a couple hours, the swim back to Hookipa was not the most enjoyable. Back on the beach exhausted and striping myself of gear I hear, “Hey do you shoot in Hatteras?” I look up and laugh, its Elliot Leboe of ACL Productions headed out for a surf. It was good to run into him again. We headed into town for a little and then again on the way home we stopped back at Lanes to shoot a couple sunset pictures.
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Day 15 was started the same as the last few days (I’m hoping one of these posts will start a little different). We headed up to Haiku to meet up again with Danny of D Surfboard Repair so that Julien could give him the exact specs for glassing his new Rawson Tow Board. I was able to get off a couple cool shots in the finishing and glassing rooms.
From there, we headed to Ho’okipa. The waves really didn’t look too great and it was way more crowded today because it is the weekend. I decided to shoot while Julien headed out on the SUP. I hiked around Ho’okipa a bit. After shooting and watching the grommets rip up the mushy waves, we headed to Morris’ house to work on one of the SUP boards.
We then went to the grocery store where I think there is at least a dollar markup on every product. On the way back home we stopped by Lanes so I could grab a couple sunset shots. As we were back on the road passing Ho’okipa Julien spotted a couple Humback’s out past the break. We pulled over to try and grab a shot.
We finally made it home with the ice half melted. Julien finished getting the ski ready for the up coming swell. I pulled out the strobes and setup for a couple portrait shots. After running completely out of light we headed in and called it a night.
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We started the day off again at the coffee shot getting some work done. I got to run into David and Rachael Hastilow at the coffee shop. They recently moved to Maui as David took up a new position at Cabrinha. We then ran across the street to Neilpryde shop to get fins and a sled for the ski.
It was back to Waiehu for another kite session. I swam out with the camera and Julien rode a 12m and surfboard again. There were a couple other guys at the beach this time. They were very nice and really good riders as well. Julien scored a couple good waves. I was out swimming for over an hour then headed back to the beach as I ran out of shots. I was going to go out for a session but the tide really backed off, and it became extremely shallow. We packed it up and headed back.
On the way home we stopped by Lanes to check out the kiters, surfers and windsurfer that were out riding. The waves really started to pick up by the end of the day, as the wind continued to blow. After that we headed around to the next turn, Hookipa, to watch the surfers. There were a ton of surfers out, it was still a bit disorganized but some were getting some good rides.
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