March Coverage....

This interview in the Dutch Surfmagazine done by Thijs van de Meer was the best interview till now. I would like to share it with you guys for the time be, between now and soon Pozo.
I'm looking foward to do that competition.

See you out there,

The Lamp

'This is my CRIB and these are my ride’s’.

Normally DK is already heated up with windy days around this time off the year, but this year it seems it got his starting problems.

I always keep a eye on the weather down there, but it seem that the Dutch weather been even better than there lately!
But last weekend that changed again, DK was promising.

We packed the station Mercedes of Red Hansie Together with Hugo ‘Boss’ and drove Thursday on Friday night up to Klitt.. During that drive the wind front change a bit , we cast the full wind front while driving in the North off Germany. That didn’t make life easy as we had a quit pack on the roof. Once there we took or nap and wake up few hours later. With the night still in or mind we wake up and saw flying birds instead of flying wind. Argg.

‘Lucky me I’m surfing too’

I was quit happy we brought or surfboards with us. As the wind was there but not there.
Hanstholm was covered with a huge cloud what kept the new front away, but at Old Macdonald’s it was 5 up to 6 beaufor, with perfect onshore hollow waves. We ripped or Bud off ‘ I never seen Hansie that stoked!!

‘Marathon sailing,’

Next morning wind was there ‘Oehfff’. The Locals were already out there on the water as the forecast was still sketchy. Luck was now on or side.
I rig my favourite sail up ‘4.7 Swelll’ and took my new big wave board under it.
First session was low wind , good for waking up and getting in the rhythm. Backside 360* went pretty well.. ‘Spining the shizzel my nizzel’..
Later the wind didn’t drop as thought , so after a small break I continued. With a bit more jumping ‘as the wind picked up’ I also enjoyed this ride.

I took a small power nap after this Session what I really needed. By the time I wake up It was still windy and light.. The waves picked up to a nice size and tuned into better line’s .

‘Same Gear different time of the day’

I never sailed so long on one day with one Kit. I pushed my head under the water to really wake up.
After that I catch wave rides after wave rides. ‘Wow’
At nine in the evening , I needed to stop, there was no more energy…

Next morning the wind was kind off there but the waves where at Hanstholm a bit low, this stayed till the end off the day, so we catch a last session off surf a Mac D and packed everything and drove up home with a peaceful feeling.

Thanks Hugo ‘Boss’ and red ‘Hansie’ for the Pica’s.
Next time i will stand behind it instead of infront...

See U out there,

The Lamp

From bad to a good Forward,
Hey guy’s,

This Sequence of Mark Welagen is from a few weeks ago during the Sunny Day’s.
Mark made for the fun a picture of the hole sequence for me, so some moments are not really balanced..

Back to the old day’s the Forward was my first big move what I learned.
I remember that I still count them some were up to 25 after that I lost the count.
I made them higher and higher and once I was in South Africa I also want to start going for the Double.

I found out that my rotation was not going ride to go for a double. I made the higher front loops pretty much end over end ( Killer Loops). At that moment I was already making good backloops and was surprised that a good nice rotated controlled forward was harder than a backloop. ‘Yes it really is’

I had some good advise of Mike the Killer. He makes perfect Forwards..
I had to start al over from the beginning on, that was a hard time.
Slowly I learned the hole process of the Frontloop. There are like 5 or 6 steps during going up and going into your rotation.

This days the best forwards are still made by the Pozo boy’s, they make “The Sky Man” Forward’s.
They go first full up wind (almost a backloop) and than going down wind into a Forward insane beautiful..

Hoop to see You guy’s out on the water soon again.

Photo is from Mark Welagen: www.trademarkphotography.nl

The Lamp

ON A Journey with the Swell...
I would like to take you guy’s along a small journey about my Point -7 Swell sails.
That's because I’m really stoked about the sails and each session the sail do surprise me again and again.

SO how does it comes they are working that well and why they got that big wind range???

On the Picture above I’m sailing with a 4.7 Swell, what is trimmed with full downhaul tension and almost a negative outhaul. If you look to the bottom till a little bit above the boom , the sail is fully curved above that {stabile power}. The sail open’s with to much wind by twisting in the top, but the bottom stay’s curved and powerful at the same time..

At that moment I was sailing on the max of the sail, but I was still convertible. The gust were a that time up to 39 knots!!This same size sail (4.7)I’m using too in really light wind conditions . Like 21-25 knots
On those moment’s I rig the sail up with less tension and with still negative outhaul.
So I get full power in my sail with a soft top end. because there is less tension on the sleeve and by this, the mast flex’s easier and also the sail top…

The different off both trims are that the sail in the first example, releasing the power by twisting open in the top. By the second example the sail released by having a soft top end off the mast .
So you got at all time the ride amount of power and easy handling.

See You Out there,

The lamp

Stoked!!!!!!!

The photo up is a delayed foward in my second round going out....

This shot i a nice sharp shot off a backloop..

I found two more shot's off me on the dutch forum http://forum.windsurfing.nl/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=13856658&start=20

Seems like that my stoked feeling on the water reflexed to the other sailors too out there on the water. thanks guy's for the stoked wurths on the forum.

Next to the jumping i found the waves for wave riding also prety sick. It's a pitty that there are no pictures off that!!

The upper photo's are from JePe

Thanks guy's

The Lamp