great swell and unique sideshore conditions!!! @ IJmuiden 20 august 2010

Afterwork session, i couldnt get the afternoon off from work. I ended up with a evening session. And that on one of the best 'wave'days of the year! Perfect swell, side sideoffwinds. The swell was great, that because the stormy weather from yesterday. The wind blowing all night long in onshore directions, made sure the waves were building up at dawn. THe wind changed from onshore to sideoffshore which made it a special undutch wavesailing day.During the daytime it was good for 4.5-5.0m2. When i arrived the wind dropped unfortunately and i was sailing minimal with the 5.4m2 sado and SOS82. But man oh man, it was so much fun riding those waves, frontside waverides, off the lips, aerial off the lips. Not much of jumping today but that didnt matter at all. Nobody took pictures from today, havent find any yet on the web. I guess everyone was standing on the water themselves. What a day, a day not to forget;

Onshore winds with heavy conditions @ wijk aan zee 29th of august 2010

Onshore conditions at Wijk aan Zee /// pictures taken by Wouter IJssel de Schepper. from aboves cameraposition, standing on the blocks.
there were not much people around, so enough space cruising trough the brakes



Rain RAin and more rain today, combined with a few sunny moments.
About 7 beaufort today, rigged the 4.5m2 and SOS82 underneeth.




A out off control backloop..


My friend Wouter, wasnt able to surf himself, so he came by and shoot some pictures! Many thanks.
backside off


going trough the wijk aan zee shorebreaks


Tabletop

Tommorow its going to be an epic day, with sideshore conditions with loads of swell.. Hopefully i can get off work a bit sooner.

evening Gps- speedsession @ Horst 24th of august 2010

Yesterday evening, when i got on the wind dropped. Just my luck. Today I more luck on my side. had still my windsurfgear inside the car. After i finished work, i drove straight to my local spot strand Horst for a short evening session.

There was enough wind this time for the Fanatic Falcon speed board. Yeah! Rigged up my good old Naish Stealth 6.0m2 and put on a caspar elite 25cm speed vin underneeth.
For about one and half hour i been speedsurfing. Thats been ages ago (october 2008?). The wind was at first a bit on and off. (WZW 16-31knots) But as darkness came in + the rain and lightning the wind got stronger.
Tried my best for 5 good runs before dark. But ended up with 3 nice 10seconds runs of 67+ and 2 in the 66+. All the lightning around me wasnt that fun. My personal records were quite outdated, as theyre from october 2008. Its important to have 5 good 10 sec run for a nice average. I had an average 5x10 66,9kmh. PR! I went up 30 places in the world ranking too ;o) from 383 to 350 lol. ( there about 2300 participants worldwide)

My max speed today was 71,9kmh, also for me a new speedrecord.
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But still not totally satisfied, and having a long way to here in this discipline. That makes it fun doing it. Next time (26th of augusts) ill be @ Wijk on my waveboards again.

Strand Horst 23 aug 2010 arrived to late

An afterwork and after diner, decided to towards Horst for a little speed-eveningsession. And little it was. rigged up my smallest sail 6.0m2 Naish Stealth and while rigging the wind dropped to a minimum.

How fun is that, hearing everyone is having their PR's and coming off the water. As i couldnt step on my board, or plane or whatever. Walked a few miles in the water. and went off. Bummer. Next time ill try to be on time, when the windmachine is still on ;o)