definitely not my kind of conditions + Jaws

Today I had one of the shortest sessions at Hookipa: 20 minutes.
First couple of waves were actually allright, but after two big ones seriously overpowered on a 4.2 and with huge chops in the bottom turn area I decided to call it a day.
Oh, well. I sailed two sessions for a total of two hours yesterday in over mast high waves, so I was also pretty tired.
As I said, the windier it gets here, the worse. At least for me. I don't like all that power in my sail. I want to surf the wave more than sail it. I like the energy of the wave more than the one of the wind. That's just my personal preference.
All the pros that were out instead, didn't seem to be bothered much...

Sailor of the day in my photoshoot time frame was Kauli. I'm guessing he had someone taking photos of his jumps and he was full on the task. I missed a remarkable push loop into forward perfectly landed. But I caught these four jumps in a row.







These are the rest of the shots.
Victor.


Paolo goes for another wipeout. I sold him that 4.2 and it probably has like 6 years. As I said, Superfreaks are pretty much indestructible.




Victor in what looks like the start of a forward off the lip.
Graham is sailing very well and did a bunch of those, but unfortunately I didn't catch any.


Francisco.


Victor.


Another one that was into forwards off the lip was Philip Koster. That's his jumping foot and you can tell.


Kauli's bit of a damage.



Philippe.

Boujmaa.


Mark's bit of a damage.



Back to yesterday, it was a busy day at Jaws.
Here's a sweet video by Ridge Lenny.


There were some gnarly wipeouts, as Polakow says in this little interview by Jay.

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Fortunately Robby survived. Unfortunately so didn't Sion Milowsky at Mavericks...

And this is Jimmie Hepp's shot of Kauli's wipeout. He did get barreled... he just didn't make it out!


Tomorrow more of the same horribly strong wind. I'm not going windsurfing. But there might be small waves on the south shore...