maui monthly no.49. may 2009

#49

May 2009, Maui, Hawaii

Maui Monthly no.49. May ’09.2

Steven Van Broeckhoven wins the first EFPT event in SardiniaSteven Van Broeckhoven (F2-Maui Sails) has won the first event of the European Freestyle Pro Tour in Sardinia !!!!! He beat Davy Scheffers form Holland in the final. Steven is leading the EFPT ranking now. In a few days the next events of the efpt start in Greece. Steven is stoked with his first European Pro Tour victory and he’s determined to win the overall ranking.

Steven’s team mates also scored some good results lately. Niek van der Linde (Fanatic - Maui Sails) won King Of The Dam 2009 and

he is leading the Championship in Holland and Belgium. Niek

performed great with the Loco 5,2! Ben Van Hooydonk (F2 - Maui

Sails, loco 5,6) was 7th and first master, so "triple" good news.

Photos : www.efpt.net

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Steven’s event reportOn the final day of the first EFPT event in Sardinia the wind appeared, luckily. They started with the "famous heat number 3" which already had been canceled twice. Again this heat was canceled twice because they said "too little wind". But to be honest, the riders of that heat took too small sail sizes (4,5m!). Eventually they had to finish the heat officially. Davy Scheffers, my training fellow from Holland, performed very well with power moves to eliminate the strong sailing German Tilo Eber.

I had to start in the second round because I had enough points from last year results. First I had to compete against Mazocco Gamba. I did what I used to do and I showed all my power moves to the jury and the public. I did moves like burner, culo, kono, switch-stance kono, shaka-cana-brava, ponch, etc... The next heat was against the Brazilian Chico. The wind increased and I decided to take the Loco 5,2. I was nice full powered before the heat started, but during the heat the wind got less. But thanks to the excellent power of the Maui Sails Loco I could start planing early and put all my moves without crashing, and I won again. My next opponent was Andre Paskowski, who is a strong contender in all competitions with lots of strong moves in short time. I chose again for Loco 5,6 which gave me my favorite full power. I crashed 2 times but I sailed a good heat. Davy competed against Ackghazyan at the same time.

Our dream became true: both Davy and I in the final and the public going wild, wow! Davy and I decided to bring a great show in the final with power moves, which we did. The public was going crazy and we busted out all power moves. I had a perfect heat with 10 power moves and 2 slide moves like double puneta and "clew first flaka into flaka". I knew Davy performed also very well, so we had to wait for the decision of the jury. After our heat we got BIG applause from the public and many photos of us were taken.

Best Greetz,Steven Van Broeckhoven, B-72www.stevenb72.com www.teamthebunch.com


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Back to Cali!

After 2.5 weeks down in Baja, it was nice to get back to California, take a hot shower, grab the freestyle boards, and head north on the way to the Gorge. Our first stop was Lake Isabella, a great spring-summer windsurfing spot just outside of LA.

Tyson Poor and I were hosting a freestyle clinic that weekend, the wind came through and we had a great turnout, it was awesome to see so many people in Southern California getting into it.

Some of the participants were riding ’08 and ’09 Legends and loving them, which was great to see. I also got a chance to get a quick slalom sesh in on a 6.6 TR-5 XT that was insane! After that we headed north to San Francisco.

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After just finishing college up there, it was awesome to get back and get a sick delta session, and a few good days down at 3rd Ave as well. One last 11-hour drive, and our 6,000-mile demo tour through 6 states and Baja had officially come to an end.

We’ll be up in the Gorge for the rest of the season, so far we’ve already had great days out east and in the corridor, so be sure to keep your eye out for the white van, and don’t hesitate to give our rigs a go!

See you on the water, Casey Hauser.

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and the winner is...

Josh Angulo racing in Korea. Courtesy of John Carter/PWA


I’ve bounced around so much I really need to take a bit of time out to remember all the people and adventures I’ve had in May. May began in central europe, lake sailing in Austria and doing some serious board promotion and general networking. The slalom scene is exciting because you meet so many more people around the world. After Austria, I had a few days of refreshment when my wife came and met with me in Munich and we hung out mainly together and with some friends. From there it was the long jump to South Korea, where my slalom training started paying some dividends and despite some continued mistakes by my part, I came out with a respectable 8th place finish. Back to Munich, my summer time base camp, where with the enormous generosity of Surftool’s Peter and Severin Bader, K1x’s Christian Grosse, German Laird - Peter Stengel, Schrader, Laufer and that whole crew of awesome people, my travels have been made very easy and comfortable. Thanks a lot you guys !

Courtesy of John Carter/PWA


On the road in May

After an action filled day and a half, where Andy Laufer turned me and Bjorn Schrader on to the best ever meatballs and secret sauce at the Kaisergarten in Schwabing, I picked up Claudia and Noah in Munich airport and drove straight to Bienne, Switzerland. Summertime in Europe is gorgeous and Bienne is no exception. Jean Bouldoires put us up at his cousin Nic’s lakeside house and we spent two days going over design and finishing the 2010 slalom prototypes which I’m now testing.

From Bienne, it was down to Cotignac, France, where my friends Mike and Helen have their getaway villa. This little town tucked inland from Almanarre is honestly one of the coolest, prettiest and most intimate places I’ve been in the world. Mike and I scored one good day of speedsailing in Almanarre with French rippers Xavier Joly (Maui Sails) and speedboard designer Cristophe Fiorentini and their whole posse. All the French sailors are very hardcore with a very high level.

On the last day of the month I ended up at le Jai beach, where I ran into French windsurf Legend Olivier Auge and his son Baba (nickname). It’s really cool to see people like that after so many years. He was going on about how good Barry’s sails have been through time and all the guys were testing with me and lending me their GPS and really helpful and welcoming. It was great. I took the A7 back to the A8 got off at Brignolles and made my way to Cotignac, for an evening session in the pool with Noah and a nice homecooked dinner by Claudia. Life is good!

Aloha Josh.


There was a lot of travelling in MayAfter visiting the South of France early May we continued on to Lake Garda for 2 days to train on the big gear, expecting light wind for the first two PWA Slalom events of 2009. It was good to tune the 9,2 getting it planing in very little wind. We continued the scenic drive along the Cote D’azure through the Alps to Neusiedlersee for the first PWA event.

After a week at the lake and a well organized event, I visited family in Munich and left to South Korea the next day. We arrived early in Korea to check into the hotel for a comfortable room and found a good spot for our gear throughout the event. Over at Jinha beach I got the last minute invitation for the ’Wild winds’ in Venezuela.

It didn’t take me long to decide to go, especially after reading the description of steady trade winds, warm water, good parties and beautiful women. To get to El Yaque on Isla Margarita and the very fun and easy windsurfing conditions there, it was a big mission driving my car back to Amsterdam from Germany, missing our connecting flight in Lisbon, having to stay overnight and getting rescheduled on another airline to Madrid and Caracas the next day, then another terminal change and thus missing our island connecting flight too. One of my bags was missing, fortunately I could borrow an identical F2 board, boom and harness, while my travel companions Gonzalo and Ben needed some masts and booms that they were missing; with everyone helping each other out we were still ready to race on the next day.

It was pretty much 7,0 weather every day and the sailing is in ideal conditions, the water very warm and no wetsuit needed just lots of sunscreen. No rush at all for the skippers meeting in the morning, island style.

The event was held straight out the front of Campello’s test center, there was plenty of room to store everyone’s gear and to chill out in the shade in a good company of people. With 3 bullets on the first day and finally winning 7 out of 12 Slalom races it was a big reward after all the training in the spring. There was also a long distance race as well, between Margarita and the Isle of Coche covering a distance of about 20 km. With a good 25 knots at the start line the wind got lighter the further out we went, but I never stopped planing and was the first to round the buoy and to get back to the beach.

With Gonzalo and Taty in second and third overall, it’s a great team result for Maui Sails and good to win the event. People we let to try out our sails where amazed how lively and easy they feel, compared to what they were using. It was good to watch the Freestyle and the new moves, its pretty amazing how technical they are getting, what a high level. Well done to Taty for his solid performance in both disciplines with only a 4,9 Loco and 6,6 TR-5!

See you next month.Peter Volwater H-24


Courtesy of John Carter/PWA

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Peter Volwater leading the race in Korea. Courtesy of John Carter/PWA.

"I found that I am one of the first guys to plane on the 9,2 but races unfortunately are getting abandoned when it’s that light....." Peter Volwater H-24


Gabriel Browne slalom sailing MauiSails TR-5 on Kanaha, Maui. Courtesy of Barry Spanier.

No rules racing ... slalom sandwich Ross Williams, Josh Angulo and Gonzalo Costa Hoevel fight in the jibe in Korea. Courtesy of John Carter/PWA


Slalomish monthSlalom is on! May was a pretty busy month. The PWA slalom tour started so I had a lot of expectations to see what would happened with my new sails.

I went early to Austria to get some light wind lake sailing in. My equipment felt very good back in Maui but something could change on a fresh water lake. Josh and Gabriel were there early and it was a great reference as we were sailing back on Maui the week before together. It seemed that the 8.4 was gonna be killer for the event.

We didn’t do much racing but 4 rounds were completed. I end up counting a 2,3 and 4 giving me the 3rd place at the event. It was my first PWA podium and a great way to start the slalom year. I use my 8.4 TR-5xt in almost every race.

After that we rushed to Korea with Ben van der Steen, hoping that we could put some days in and get use to the new time zone. We didn’t have any wind on the previous days to the event and it was very difficult to adapt to the new time too. I was normally sleeping 3 hs only, from 11 till 2 am and then could not sleep any more. I think the night before I left I finally felt good!

The event was harder than Austria I would say. It was very difficult to choose the gear because the wind was super gusty. The start and the first leg were very small and most of the time there was a 5 kt difference between the start and the first mark. I made many strategy mistakes on the first two eliminations and score 14 and 15, but then manage to come back with a 3, 5 and a 7 when it got a little windier. I end up 7 at that event. The highlight of the event was that many crashed went through. I had that crash with Josh and Ross, and Finian crashed with Bjorn...no rules!!

After that we rushed to the "Margarita Wild Winds" in Venezuela. We had the missions of all missions to get there. My route was: Ulsan (where the PWA was)- Incheon (Seoul) - Istanbul - Amsterdam (spend the evening and left at 5 am) - Lisbon (where we missed the connection, spent the night) -


Austria event: "It was my first PWA podium and a great way to start the slalom year...."

Gonzalo Costa Hoevel leading the race in Austria. Courtesy of John Carter/PWA.


Madrid - Caracas (where we missed the connection again) - Margarita (where the masts and booms didn’t show up!!). I don’t know how many days it took in the end…very long but we made it at least to paradise Margarita where we scored 5 days of 7.0 conditions. I got 2nd there behind Peter H24 who was flying. My girlfriend Delfi flew there so I could spent a week holiday with her.

Now I am in Holland with Ben getting ready for Costa Brava for the third PWA of the year and then back home for a couple of weeks.

See you on the water.Gonzalo Costa Hoevel ARG-3


May seems short but I have done a lot of sailingAs freestyling is my main priority this year I have spent most of my time doing freestyle and sailed when ever the wind was good.

This month I spend about 21 days on the water exactly. The rest of the days wind was very light. Each day I am on the water I am learning something new, and this makes me want to windsurf each day more and more. Windsurfing is a sport that in my opinion you will never stop learning from it, each day or moment you learn how to get a better feeling of the sail or a better balance on the board. To me an easy sport makes it not enjoyable but everyone of us have his/her own opinion about that.

Well, on the 17th of may Elvis organized a slalom race and we had wind about 15-20 knots so as i didn´t had any slalom sails I went in my garage and get this TR3 9.2 and put it on my Isonic board 101 2008 and went out and won this event. The sail handled pretty okay on this small board. I thought I would be going slow but then the race started. With a perfect start and board speed plus jibe I was 10 meter ahead of the fleet. Tonky also got some new Vapor and was going fast as well, so is Patun, Ro, Andrew, Bjorn and many more.

On the 22nd I flew together with Kiri and Monique to Margarita for the WILD WINDS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL slalom and freetyle event.

On the 23rd the NATIONAL event started with great 25-35 knots of wind. I just brough one board (ISONIC 101) and one sail (TR5 6.6), the sail I borrow from a friend of mine. I had fun but I was fully overpowered on that big board with these choppy conditions I was always at the point of getting slammed but i held on very tight. A local guy name ALEXIX CARAGE is very fast and felt very comfortable and won the national with me in 2nd and Gollito in third.

Gabriel didn´t register for the national event but still he´s was doing very well cruising in the fleet. On the 24th, on my birthday, we had the best freestyle trick contest and the crowd decided who will be the winner so Kiri, Gollito, Ricardo, Diony, Antxion and I went on the water and impressed the crowd with our freestyle tricks for 20 minuuts. Then we came back to the beach and had this guy saying, "Let´s hear it for the riders!" At the end the ones who had the most and exactly the same applause was Gollito, Kiri, and I, and every one at the beach kinda boo’d Ricardo. It was kind of not so cool being booo at your home, but the top 3 got 100 dollars each. Hahahhahahh... funny... I liked it.

This is my first time here in Margarita and I pretty much like the place alot. As The International event will began on the 26 I still have nothing to say yet about the days here.

Taty Frans NB-9


A lot of sailing in MayI’ve been sailing a lot this month. First of all I went to Austria for the first PWA event of the year. I had the opportunity to be there five days before the event. I sailed everyday and the TR-5 9,2 was the sail that I use most of the races. Also the 8,4 felt very good in that conditions.

I went back home for one week and I practiced some FW events, as the wind there this time of the year is lighter. Probably I’m going to the FW Youth Worlds at Cadiz in the first week of July. I’ve never been in this event and I want to try one time as I’m still in the youth division.

Gabriel Browne durfing PWA event in Austria. Courtesy of John Carter/PW

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The best part of the month was the trip to Venezuela for the Margarita Wild Winds. Perfect place for slalom, windy everyday. I did a lot of training in medium to strong winds. I like the TR 5 7,0 a lot. I can use this sail with my small board and medium board. Now I know I have my sails ready for Costa Brava and the Canaries.

See you on the water !!Gabriel Browne BRA-50

Gabriel Browne on Maui, rigging on Hookipa. Courtesy of Bogo.


Where did the wind go?This has been the least windy month that I can remember on Maui. I had a couple of good days at the start of May, sailing on the larger Legend and Loco sizes, one day on slalom gear and then the wind just disappeared. It’s fortunate that we got most of our testing done early this year.

We’ve been busy at the loft, rigging and checking all the final versions in preparation for our first 2010 production run in June. I’m very excited about the 2010 wave line up as all the fine tuning has come together and the sails are looking great. I think that anyone who appreciates a light handling and responsive wave sail and tries a 2010 Legend will be on the verge of having a religious experience.

Another highlight for 2010 is the introduction of the ultra-light technora “GHOST XT” wave sail line. This is an exciting specialty line for those who want the ultimate in materials technology to take full advantage of those light wind and clean wave sessions. The GHOST XT will be available in sizes ranging from 5.0 up to 6.7.

An upside to this lack of wind has been that I’ve been getting some fun family surf sessions with my wifey and 4 year old daughter. I surf tandem with my daughter and every time we catch a wave she yells out “woo-hoo”.

Aloha,Artur Szpunar


"... For 2010 is the introduction of the ultra-light Technora “GHOSTXT” wave sail line."


and definitely no speed problems. All of them have said that starting and situational reaction are their weak points. Only more practice and experience can cure that. Josh was working out his new Magnum board line, Gonzalo and Peter were adapting the new sails to their very different boards, and Gabriel is just plain getting better all round.

May is always finalizing time for wave and freestyle sails and it’s great to say that they are ready now for production. And soon we will see Taty Frans returning to action with the improved Locos for 2010. Sample quivers have gone out to agents earlier in the month, and I expect it won’t be long until some are seen in various places around the world. Our new line of lightweight wave sails will be announced to the press soon. Art did lots of personal testing on this one and has a good emotional connection to how they work. It will be a special order thing similar to XT race sails, but well worth the small added cost.

Sell in May and Go away!There is an old expression in the stock world that says "Sell in May and Go away." This month in Maui it was more like "Try sail in May and the wind will go away!" What a month it has been for waiting and waiting... still waiting. I don’t think I have ever experienced such a lack of trade winds in the Spring months in thirty years. I really feel for all the people who have come here to sail. They will just have to discover all the other wonderful things about Maui in the meantime.

May began the global racing scene for us and all the preparation of the previous months would show... or not. I was really happy with what I have seen so far. Lots of improvement among our guys


On a personal note I want to congratulate, my youngest son, Cutter, on his graduation from Pacific High in Cape Blanco, Oregon. He did a great job in his final year and survived lots of personal challenges to accomplish this. I’ll be there to cheer him on.

AlohaBarry Spanier


What a beautiful May

We got a lot of days during the winter in Haiku, when it’s just still in the air, sunny, no wind or rain, well this month has been like that in Haiku, in fact over the whole state of Hawaii. The trades just stopped, I guess because we had so much wind during the first few months of the year, go figure. We did manage to get in a few light wind slalom days, which sure are nice, but they were few and far between. My brother paid me a visit for 10 days to go sailing, but only got in a few days, he’s been before this time of the year and was asking if the wind ever stops blowing, well now he got to experience it.


At least the boys had wind at both the two PWA slalom events they did so far. Gonzalo got third in Austria which was huge, while Peter, Gabriel and Josh showed signs of being consistent, but the main thing was the sails were going well and they enjoyed the regatta’s with good results.

The new wave sails are just about done, our team has been finalizing designs, which look fantastic and yet again have made improvements in handling, control, power. The sails continue to feel light and responsive on the wave, so we are looking forward to the first production run here real soon and getting the sails out into the market.

My Ironman training has been progressing into the race phase, which involves very long bike rides followed immediately by at least an hour running. The body is feeling good on the long runs and I’m learning weekly about when to push and when to rest. This is the real art in long distance triathlon training, along with nutrition during the workouts, it’s super key to rest and not over do it. I did Honolulu Triathlon last weekend as a training event and got my personal record for the Olympic distance race in 2 hours, 23 minutes.

Aloha,Phil McGain

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