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o-man
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Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 03:07pm PT
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Santa Cruz Classic - Day 1
Bernd Roediger and Morgan Noireaux help kick off event
Over 70 riders from all over have gathered at Waddell Creek, just north of Santa Cruz, to compete in the first event of the American Windsurfing Tour. Despite light wind for most of the day just enough breeze kicked up late to get the event's first two heats in the books. Head Judge Matt Pritchard sent the junior division out who put on a show for the crowd lining the cliff. Heat one started with Nick Dudet picking off a solid wave and taking the lead. From there it was a battle of wave selection with Morgan Noireaux, Dudet and Jordan Reid duk]ing it out.
Heat two marked the competition debut of Harley Stone... the 12-year old son of former world champion Josh Stone. Although underpowered he toughed out the heat against Bernd Roediger, Jay Watermeyer and Sean Williams. Roediger picked the wave-of-the-day right at the start of the heat and is looking to be in top form for this competition.
Morgan Noireaux
http://vimeo.com/23374793
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2011 - 04:13am PT
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http://vimeo.com/23374793
Day Two Results... so far!
Bernd wins single eliminationIt was an action-packed day at Waddell with all the single eliminations nearing completion. The one final so far was for the youth and may have been the best heat of the day. Bernd Roediger edged Morgan Noireaux in an epic battle. I'm sure the double elim tomorrow will be just as exciting.
Youth Single Elimination:
1st - Bernd Roediger
2nd - Morgan Noireaux
3rd - Nick Dudet
Expert Men after Round 2:
Heat 13 - Francisco Goya, Jazz Glickenhaus, Josh Stone, Nathan Mershon
Heat 14 - Morgan Noireaux, Camille Juban, Kevin Pritchard, Kai Katchadourian
Women's Final:
Heat 6 - Ingrid Larouche, Carmen Hsu, Leah Doran, Sam Bittner
Masters Final:
Heat 6 - Brian Caserio, Reed Nelson
Amateur Men after Round 2:
Heat 13 - Ingrid Larouche, Vinnie Armato, Jordan Reid, Nick Dudet
Heat 14 - Reed Nelson, Eric Sorensen, Troy Collins, Brett Greene
Nathan Mershon
Jazz Glickenhaus lands Air Chacho... SICK!
Insane trick of the day goes to Jazz who landed an Air Chacho in his second heat helping him advance to the semifinals. Congrats to him for pushing the limits and nailing one of the toughest moves around!
Looking forward to Day 3...
The beach at Waddell is packed and we're looking forward to another killer day on the water. Follow the action at facebook.com/americanwindsurfing and twitter.com/windsurfingtour.
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2011 - 04:19am PT
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Final Results after Day 3
Nick DudetCompetition started at 11am allowing time for the completion of all the single eliminations and final double eliminations for the Youth, Women and Masters divisions. We're keeping the results of the Expert and Amateur classes a secret for now, but we will tell you that the Expert final was a stacked heat including Kevin Pritchard, Francisco Goya, Nathan Mershon and Morgan Noireaux.
Youth Double Elimination Final:
1st - Bernd Roediger
2nd - Morgan Noireaux
3rd - Jordan Reid
4th - Nick Dudet
5th - Harley Stone
Womens Double Elimination Final:
1st - Ingrid Larouche
2nd - Carmen Tsu
3rd - Leah Doran
Ingrid Larouche4th - Kathryn Fisher
5th - Natasha Kowalski
Masters Double Elimination Final:
1st - Brian Caserio
2nd - Reed Nelson
3rd - Macrae Wylde
4th - Atilla Tivador
5th - Royn Bartholdi
http://vimeo.com/23408850
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2011 - 06:47pm PT
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2011 - 04:17am PT
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Winners of the Santa Cruz Classic:
Expert:
1st: Nathan Mershon
2nd: Kevin Pritchard
3rd: Morgan Noiaroux
Amateur:
1st: Eric Sorensen
2nd: Ingrid Larouche
3rd: Nick Dudet
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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May 19, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
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Hey O Man,
I'm going to be on Kauai in 2 weeks and if time allows I might like to get myself back out there - do you know any of the rental/instructors over there to recommend? I'm not going to bring my board or anything probably just my harness.
I suppose Anini is about my speed right now, not Tunnels or one of the harder areas since I haven't sailed in a long time.
Mahalo!
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 20, 2011 - 01:51am PT
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Crusher I sure wish you were gonna be on Maui. I'm the head instructor for Windsurf School Of Maui and I could help you have a great time getting back in the straps.
I know that if you do get a chance to do some sailing you'll be stoked!
Post up on this thread when ya get back or sooner.
Have a great time on Kauai!
BTW: Check out this really cool write up about the AWT on Da News Blog http://danewsblog.blogspot.com/
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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May 20, 2011 - 06:53pm PT
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Yeah! Too bad not Maui this time...I have lots of good memories of Kanaha. I'll definitely post up if I go (or not), we're sure to have some nice pictures of the scenery anyway.
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2011 - 02:50pm PT
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Surf City Catamarans wrote:
"Who can explain to me why I get waaaay more response from my windsurfing pieces compared to a kick-butt mono or cat piece? Are the board guys just more into it? I've gotten calls from several windsurf mags, and a bunch of windsurf sites wanting to run my AWT piece from SA. I don't even windsurf. Come on, fire up guys!"
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 21, 2011 - 03:39pm PT
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Windsurfing is about stoke, such incredible experiences in the waves sometimes, you feel like you are floating afterwards.
O-man, ever sail the southside other then kihei or the nw side past the harbor?many strange and interesting places to shred when the conditions are right and the wind direction weird.
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2011 - 04:04am PT
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The south side is hit or miss and can be great. I have sailed hapi-o-pu(sp?) Embassy Suits and S-Turns park. I rarely take my wind surf gear over there when I go. There was a day last month that I went over and surfed, I would have had a way better time wave sailing than I did long boarding. I still got a ton of great head and better waves.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 22, 2011 - 04:47am PT
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Am I the only one a little put off by this thread? I'm a windsurf/kiter myself - and I'm into the open forum concept - but I feel like o-man has sort of dropped in on our world and made it into his free advertising venue.
I guess its when I see words like "shred" and "stoke" too many times I think I'm looking at some Windsurfing rag whose business is to "fire up" teenagers so they will buy more gear. Something to do with tone.
One of the things I like about this forum is that most of the people here have at least a little grey hair. Their perspective - or at least mine - has changed over the decades. Hype doesn't sell anymore. Actually I can say that is what I like about the Santa Cruz windsurfing scene too. Most the guys there are pushing 60, sailing like pros, and not making a big deal about it. Cool crowd.
There, got that off my chest, and you got a bump for free. ha
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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May 22, 2011 - 06:08am PT
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O-man has no shortage of rock cred to back up posting anything he wants...
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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May 22, 2011 - 01:25pm PT
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Studly/O-Man,
One day Mr. Crusher and I were hiking out the King's Highway, past Big/Little Beach and watched some guy ripping it up off (past) La Perouse Bay. Looked like he was having a blast - I think he would have had to sail pretty hard upwind to get up there but then could head back downwind with the waves. Maybe this is one of the places you guys are talking about. I was pleasantly surprised to see him out there.
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2011 - 06:06pm PT
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I have seen photos of guys wave sailing La Perouse and it looks awesome and a very sketchy launch!
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2011 - 06:17am PT
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I hadn't seen this video of the 2011 Santa Cruz Classic by Jordan Reid
http://vimeo.com/23780282
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