In this blog you will find updates about where I am and what I'm doing. Also you will find in this blog everything about me and my windsurf career..

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

THIS IS IT,

The Flash,

"Dutch weather open’s for a new Sun Shine moment,
Moment were we are looking for"

The Lens open’s for a new Moment, a shot with movement, me passing trying to find the ride action, clouds passing above with the same wind where I’m floating on, water that moves from that same wind what started somewhere far away, we trying to get movement in one, THE FLASH..

The Shot, that moment of action, nature and beauty in one Flash.

Dutch waves and weather is hard, but for sure worth it.

Thanks to RUBEN SNITSLAAR who invest his time on that moment out off the water.. www.klatser.com

More will follow....

The Lamp
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Monday, November 30, 2009

THIS IS IT and much more coming.

New photo's on the Aloha site: http://picasaweb.google.com/aloha.noordpier/

Wednesday more off Mark Welagen.

Stay tuned and enjoy the ride,

The Lamp
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HOW TO DO BACKSIDE 360 IN THE DUTCH SURFMAGAZINE,


Watershot made by Ruben Snitslaar www.klatser.com
Landshot made by JePe

The Surfmagazine you can find in your local bookstore....

Wave Boarder, The Lamp
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Sunday, November 29, 2009


“THIS IS IT”


I’m at the moment more dead than alive after three weeks off almost none stop windsurfing.
From Just wave riding, jumping to combine off those, windsurf windsurf and allot more windsurf.

Today it was the last day off those three weeks off sailing.

It was really Cream of the la Cream’s of all day‘s.

Holly shit, floating out on my big wave board and 5.7 Swell Sail with side offshore light wind and 2 m full hollow lines waves breaking, for Dutch waves they where pretty hollow. Just Sick.

How stabile the last 3 weeks were is really special for Dutch weather system.
Let see what the Month December will bring..

It’s time for a Kit Kat Break..

Picture on the top is from Mark Welagen, made on Thurstday..

Soon more coming!! For now more on www.klatser.com

Oehff

See U out there,

The Lamp
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Monday, November 23, 2009


Holland better than ever,

It started 1/5 week ago with wind blowing from the south.
Till now it didn’t stop, still windy and there is one more week coming.

I’m enjoying this days as nothing else, each day a new day with similar condition’s.
Goals lately are to improve my wave riding, finish my turns all the way.. Carving it from top to bottum to backside.. Finding the best angle To get the best speed during the turns, when you find those turns it feels amazing..

This day’s I also med a different wind than I felt ever before. So gusty, fuck, like last week I had at leached 3 times a proper take off for a backloop where I had on the highest point just suddenly no more wind, what happened after that was just funny, falling as dead bird out off the air… au…

Yesterday I had the worst timing ever in everything, I started with a5.0 what was way to powered up, than I tuned to a 4.1 what was good but also not good, I was speeding and on the same moment standing still, than I tuned to a 4.7 were I had one round when the wind died totally. I was so pist off that really didn’t want to gif up, I rig up again my 5.0, here I found slowly a okay session with down line wave riding till the dark came sooner than I wished…

In the evening someone asked me “what it takes to get there were I’m ride now” I found that day the perfect answer on that question. To not gif up at all times..

Yesterday I saw a kid on the water, I quess he is 12 years old, he had a smile from ear to ear. I hope he has that same spirit..

Thanks to JePe For the pictures..

See You Out There,

The Lamp

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Biografie Martin ten Hoeve

Picture a sunny day in 1988, a seventies windsurfboard, a red old fashioned triangle sail and a little eastern breeze at the beach of Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands...the ideal ingredients to learn windsurfing!

That’s how it all started for me, Martin ten Hoeve from Heemskerk, the Netherlands. Every Summer me and my family spent our holidays at the beach of Egmond aan Zee where we have a little house (caravan) at the beach. My friends and I started windsurfing, after a few years my passion was born! In those years my nickname was Flow: all the other windsurfers couldn’t surf with just a little breeze while I (because of my age and weight) was flowing around the water like a mad man! At a certain moment in time I realized that I wanted to make more out of windsurfing than just a hobby. So at 16 years of age I bought a (motor)bike with a trailer so I could go surfing whenever I wanted in Wijk aan Zee, that became my homespot.

In the Winter 2000/2001 I made my very first surftrip to South Africa, I stayed there for three months. Because of the fantastic weather conditions (steady wind all the time) my surfskills grew very much. (Nowadays I make this trip every year, when I don’t travel I work as a furniture specialist to finance my trips.) In the Summer of 2003 I made my first sponsor deal with Van Someren Consultancy, an enterprise that’s specialized in groundwater research.

In the same year I started to enter big surfing competitions, my first victory was in 2004: I won the Naish Wave Challenge. Quite an achievement: I was one of the only amateurs that entered the competition. During Wintertime I went to South Africa again to improve my skills and to get ready for the competition season in Summer of 2005.

My first Worldcup competition was in May of 2005 in Pozo (Gran Canaria) in Spain. Because of my good results in competitions in the past I was about to get a wildcard to enter the main event. When I finally got to Pozo after a tiring trip the organisation told me that the only way to get a wildcard was by winning the pre rounds. So I entered the pre rounds and I won! I entered the main event and was very much impressed by the high level the surfers had. Also I was a amazed by the fact that I could surf a long with those professionals without being a lot less than them.

2006 was a exciting year where I came 25de during the PWA event in Pozo Gran Ganaria. Later that year became vice Champion by beating P Volwater in the final off the Dutch Champion ships..

In 2007 I started with a new sponsor deals by signing a contract by Fanatic/North Sails/ Prolimit and where I also will start Slalom…

I am on the way and convinced that I will succeed!

Face your fears, live your dreams! See you out there on the water!

Martin ten Hoeve