Winds Going Wimpy

Looks like I was wrong in my last post about the winds continuing. When I stopped by Kanaha yesterday, a 5.8 would have been a stretch. Somehow sailing 5.8 after several days of 4.0 just didn't appeal to me, so I left. Turns out it picked up to 5.0 a little later - good mellow stuff for all the sailors battered by the high winds the previous days.

Today it slacked off even more and clocked around to northerly. Mid-teens and onshore winds was the best the north shore could muster today.

Looks like we're going into a light wind pattern for a few days. So, surf on over to MauiWindsurfing.net to find some new windsurfing video clips, including something called an "essex jibe" (or so I'm told) and young local ripper Kai Lenny in what looks like a flat water backloop attempt (or maybe a shove it attemtp, I'm not sure). Kai was in last weekend's Matt Pritchard jump clinic and was working on flat water backloops. According to his dad, he already has backloops wired when he launches off of a wave, and now he's working on a flat water version. Keep in mind he's only ~12 years old.