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Posted: May 13th, 2012, 9:43pm CEST by sergem
The essential experience, compressed in about 3 minutes.
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Posted: April 4th, 2012, 6:13am CEST by sergem
Last day of March, storm-trailing SW, many other SW sites at too low tide, I went and tried Marina Bay (thanks Steve & Vincent!). A spot to watch, for sure!
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Some of 2011 footage I found on my hard drive. Now where are the storms or snow?
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This season being what it is, it took several anomalies to deliver normal TI conditions this Saturday.
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Well-matched tune that I long forgotten. Thanks Brad!
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Posted: May 16th, 2011, 4:55am CEST by sergem
My buddy Aaron just posted an AWESOME video of their Punta San Carlos adventures. Make sure to comment at the source.
Punta San Carlos Home Movie from Catapult Media on Vimeo.
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Posted: April 8th, 2011, 7:22am CEST by sergem
Finally conditions befitting April. 3 meter sails at 3rd. So pitted!
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Massively entertaining video from Stanford Windsurfing Club (thanks for pointer, Jacob!)
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No wind, cold outside and waist is getting ready for 2011 season? Cheer up!
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From early ASD times Kipps teaches windsurfing at Coyote. Since I can’t catch him, I asked him to put the camera on his mast.
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I caught the bug and so now I have to do this all the time.
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Friday evening at Candlestick.
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Posted: July 27th, 2010, 10:05pm CEST by sergem
Highlights of the freestyle “expression” session from Friday July 23rd during US Nationals at Crissy Field. Very little wind, especially inside.
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Posted: July 24th, 2010, 7:50am CEST by sergem
Heat 1 of slalom on July 23rd
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 8:34pm CEST by sergem
On Saturday. (photo stills are here)
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Posted: July 10th, 2010, 7:28am CEST by sergem
Friday July 9th. Clean sweet power.
HOT NEWS: FREESTYLE COMPETITION AT THE U.S. WINDSURFING NATIONALS.
Crissy Field July 20th-24th.
There will be 2 Divisions.
New-School – Any trick counts.
Old-School – Bring your Carving Tricks and Light Wind Maneuvers.
The only Aerial Trick that will be scored is a Forward.
You can enter both Divisions if you like!
Entrance [...]
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Posted: May 14th, 2010, 7:10am CEST by sergem
Kevin Kan at Candlestick testing doublecam HD.
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Posted: May 5th, 2010, 6:48am CEST by sergem
5 vulcans from Sofy in review format. Below is a Quicktime clip that takes a while to load, but lets you pause it and review frame by frame, just click on paused video and use arrow keys. Sailor: Sofien Sehiri.
QT_WriteOBJECT('http://videojibe.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sofy_vulcans-50-small.mov' , '528', '352' , '', 'QTSRC', [...]
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Posted: May 1st, 2010, 7:27am CEST by sergem
Updated with birthday party loops. Educated comments are welcome! Below is a Quicktime clip that takes a while to load, but lets you pause it and scrub back and forth frame by frame. Sailors: Kevin Kan, Aaron Vieira, Matt Harvey, Sofien Sehiri and Rich Wilde.
QT_WriteOBJECT('http://videojibe.com.s3.amazonaws.com/loops2.mov' , '528', '352' , '', 'QTSRC', [...]
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Posted: April 26th, 2010, 5:02am CEST by sergem
Abundant libations to Skiron from Team Dawg, plus lots of wind wishes produced a major birthday party. Fully downhauled 4.2 for my 190# is a lot of wind!
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 6:27am CEST by sergem
I signed up to Sofien’s Forward Loop Clinics. To pass the time I am trying to flat jump downwind and study the videos. Below is Quicktime that takes a while to load, but lets you pause it and scrub back and forth frame by frame. Sailors: Rich Wilde and Kevin Kan.
QT_WriteOBJECT('http://videojibe.com.s3.amazonaws.com/loops.mov' , '528', '352' [...]
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Posted: April 9th, 2010, 8:39am CEST by sergem
I asked RRD rider Sofien Sehiri to show some vulcans this Tuesday. There was very little wind, I am amazed he planed at all. (Clip that can be scrubbed frame-by-frame, with the full set of moves, is here – download and use a desktop video player).
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:25am CET by sergem
War-at-sea gusty, sweet rolling swell rides on the outside. 4.7/84L wave. Then quite holey for my kit – I quit after persevering for 40 minutes. Bloody cold, too. This is an official kick-off, though – get your sails from your attic or the season will end too soon!
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Gusts 22-40, and stink from Pillar Point #8 (Maverick’s Parking)
Site: Half Moon Bay harbor
Thanks for the comments!
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Nothing beats sweet warm water, rigged gear and tequila on the beach.
Site: Los Barriles (Vela Baja)
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I am thankful to any chance, however short, to sail 4.7/84L in November. Awesome. 60fps version:
Special thanks to Rich Wilde
Quality action photos of that day are here (by Mo Gunn)
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
For best viewing 60fps pleasure, Mozilla Firefox is recommended. Chrome is OK and there is no difference in IE.
old 30fps version, [...]
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Gusty as usual: best of Half Moon Bay’s wind from this morning:
Special thanks to Kipps.
Site: Half Moon Bay harbor
Thanks for the comments!
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I was making a 6x slow-motion of Kevin Kan’s shove-its, so I and my buddies could study it. I could not resist the urge to slap a music and run it at full tilt. If you look at the time counter, he was cranking one every 4 min on average
When I asked permission [...]
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Seeing on WRAMS a promise of improbable winds at this time of year, I promptly took a day off. Although 30kt average did not materialize, I was able to sail my 84L wave (and tack it twice). Never mind his messed up ankle, Kevin Kan delivered quite a performance. Team Crushpad (Dave) showed Aaron a [...]
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I finally paid a visit to the awe-inspiring site to be respected. Libretto is here and here (I was way overpowered on the outside, though):
It was well worth it, 3hrs of traffic, mental blocks and all.
Site: Crissy Field
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Educated tips are welcome:
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Rough cut, no music, for analysis purposes.
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My F2 Style has developed deck softness, so I got another board and quickly ran it through the paces, including a bit of swimming. Here is how it worked, on a new lightweight mast cam:
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: July 12th, 2009, 9:28am CEST by sergem
Warning - the only guy who completes a move in this video is Andy. The rest are carefully preselected splash sequences.
Site: The Access
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: June 1st, 2009, 8:23am CEST by sergem
Saturday, May 30th. 27mph wind average + ebb. I need 15 more kilos on the belly or 15 less liters in the board!
Site: Powerlines
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: May 25th, 2009, 11:38pm CEST by sergem
With most of the bay shrouded in 3000ft-tall fog blanket, shining sun and steady WNW in Palo Alto made sailors appear in record numbers. What a day!
Site: Palo Alto
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: April 26th, 2009, 7:07am CEST by sergem
I am lured by non-planing freestyle so I am giving up my 8.5 rig to make room for new gear.
This kit got me planing in 12mph average in Coyote Point - I am 190 lbs and the board was 145 JP X-Cite ride with 48 cm fin. With adjustable outhaul, you can also keep sailing [...]
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Posted: April 15th, 2009, 4:49am CEST by sergem
190#4.0/93l/25cm 11:30-12:30, early, while there were no stones in the wind yet.
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 9:03pm CEST by sergem
I need to lean forward more.
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 8:14am CEST by sergem
Huge holes, killer blasts, white-haired mogul swell. Happy Thursday!
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: March 23rd, 2009, 3:04am CET by sergem
Birds could not get upwind. Both sail (4.0) and board (93L) were flying readily on waterstart. I almost cannot believe that we sailed on a bigger day last spring. Here is a couple of minutes of shore-based footage for illustration:
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: March 9th, 2009, 7:09am CET by sergem
North Pacific High made a shy (with a tad of WSW) appearance today, first in the year. Paging Mike Godsey!
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: March 7th, 2009, 7:37am CET by sergem
Good old-fashioned 6.6 fun at Coyote. Unreliable clearing wind, kept switching to WSW, driving port tack right into chop. Need to work on keeping the horizon level!
Site: Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: March 2nd, 2009, 7:05am CET by sergem
Deceptive winter wind pattern, never mind the date. Got stuck waterstarting on the outside with some chop and little wind. Then it came up with a vengeance, I could only get couple of reaches with the kit that I rigged. Hey, it’s spring now and there are no excuses to keep sails dry anymore!
Site: Oyster [...]
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Monday 1:30pm-2:30pm at 3rd Avenue, and I again forgot the booties.
Site:
3rd Avenue
Thanks for the comments!
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Here is how I compressed this amazing Giampaolo’s video:
Premiere Elements Shadows/Highlights filter (enable remove flicker in clip’s field options)
Sometimes it is worth to add just little bit of sharpen filter too, but not in this case
Frameserve (Debugmode) video to VirtualDub to resize to 400×304 (multiple of 16) and convert sound to 22050Hz Mono
Mencoder to encode [...]
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I don't like to wash my wetsuit. This is usually the last step after wrap-up and it involves taking suit from the bag, going to backyard, hosing it inside out and the carrying it back to dry. Really kills your mood after the session.
more >>
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I don't like to wash my wetsuit. This is usually the last step after wrap-up and it involves taking suit from the bag, going to backyard, hosing it inside out and the carrying it back to dry. Really kills your mood after the session.
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Wanted to go surfing at 7:30, checked sensors and was pleasantly surprised.
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If you feel cold and skunked - check out these guys:
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First day after a long time. Quality wind.
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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My right boot's take on Friday conditions.
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Long Live the Season!
SE storm action in half Moon Bay on Sat Nov 1
Site:
Half Moon Bay Harbor
Thanks for the comments!
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Unexpected day of sun and wind on Sunday. SFO was 20-26 gusting to 31.
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Davenport, Sunday the 24th, camera-shaking wind, beautiful sailing.
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Posted: August 9th, 2008, 7:33am CEST by sergem
Amazing camerawork by Dave, screwed jibes by Sergey. Pretty light initially, honking "smooth Coyote wind" later on, but of course better part has missed the batteries.
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Posted: July 26th, 2008, 8:43am CEST by sergem
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Posted: July 26th, 2008, 8:28am CEST by sergem
Very helpful thingumabob for freestylers and just about any windsurfer working on technique.
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Posted: July 20th, 2008, 9:09pm CEST by sergem
They say it was blowing much better all week, but any day I can use my 93 is VERY GOOD!
stills
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 8:56am CEST by sergem
Clean sustainable energy - sometimes as pure as 24 gusting 25. Sweet.
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:50am CEST by sergem
This is the rig-3-times Sunday adventure (stills and slo-mo from Friday-Sunday are
inside).
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: April 29th, 2008, 7:00am CEST by sergem
Stills and slo-mo -
inside
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 7:39am CEST by sergem
Yes, I sailed on nuclear Saturday. No I didn't film, afraid to puncture the sail, as
happened once already. At the end (3 reaches) I still made a hole in it, but I doubt I would think of aiming the camera that day :)
This is the day after, laid back and comfortable on 5.8 (if you don't count frostbitten fingers).
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:53am CET by sergem
Despite short but frequent lulls, a very nice Coyote day, for most of us, anyway (March 23).
Urgent! -
donations needed for continued Coyote Point windsurfing launch site access!
Site:
Coyote Point
Thanks for the comments!
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