Girl Power by "Tree"
Hey there MSG's!
Tree, one of our fabulously hilarious surf instructors, emailed me this classic video of her summer with Maui Surfer Girls and beyond! Let us know what you think! We love our one and only "Tree-Top"!
January 22, 2008
January 14, 2008
January 08, 2008
Winter "Boot" Camp - 2008
I'm honored to have spent the first week of 2008 - with a group of intelligent, courageous & adventurous, spontaneous dance party surfer girls! Gaby Barsotti, Fanny Poliquin-Bureau, Ashley Russell, and Michaela Steinbeck - you are all amazing young women!
Each day we piled into "Falcor" and hit the northshore waves. Blaring Gaby's ipod from Hanumanu to Lahaina Breakwall - we were rockin it hard - 2 sessions per day! I was so impressed with the girls stamina and eagerness to charge the north shore waves. Granted we had our down time chillin' at our Paia crash pad - playing Crainium & cracking open coconuts with a pick axe. Then there was our afternoon adventure to the new flow master wave pool in Kihei, Da Rush, where we all suffered whiplash from our dramatic wipe outs! Video highlights from our camp will be shortly uploaded -- keep posted!
"...Without self-discovery, a person may still have self confidence, but it is a self confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens. Self discovery is the end product of a great challenge mastered, when the mind commands the body to do the seemingly impossible, when courage and strength are summoned to extraordinary limits for the sake of something outside the self--a principle, an onerous task, another human life." --Kurt Hahn
January 03, 2008
Happy New Year!
Haole Makahiki Hou!
All of us Maui Surfer Girls wish you all the blessings that 2008 has in store for you!
We are currently in our Winter "Boot" Camp session and will update you soon on our northshore surf adventures!
Be GREAT in '08!
December 28, 2007
Barrel Rides 101
I discovered this mind blowin' - barrel haulin' clip today!
Check out the first barrel ride -- one of the longest in and out barrel rides that I've ever seen! I will die a very happy Maui surfer girl - if I ever experience a ride in the barrel like this one.
Check this out!!
December 26, 2007
Mele Kalikimaka from Maui Surfer Girls
Our warmest holiday wishes from all of us at Maui Surfer Girls!
Check this out: Surfing Santa Clip
FYI, Maui recently opened a standing wave park: Da Rush Maui
And Check this CLASSIC surfing santa footage out:** LIVE ALOHA IN '08! **
December 20, 2007
Ultimate Tow-Surf Footage of Jaws
This is one of my most favorite tow surf clips that I've ever seen. It's mind blowing! The clip really gives you a birds eye view of the enormity at Jaws. Heli-footage is the way to capture Jaws.
A few years ago I had a unique opportunity to film Jaws from a helicoptor. While Jace Panebianco was filming The Windsurfing Movie, he randomly asked me a favor. He was stuck at a modelling gig and couldn't break free to film one of the most important shoots of the movie -- Naish, Levi, and all the pros were windsurfing Jaws that afternoon. He told me I had the steadiest hand without a tri-pod, so he trusted me to take the footage for him. I was completely honored. So, I dropped everything I was doing that day and ran over to his house to pick up his Panasonic cam. Off I went to the heli pad to meet one of my favorite photographers, Eric Aedar, and a mini-me version of the Magnum PI helicoptor. Only a week prior I surfed Jaws for the first time, and now I was about to get another ride of my life -- hanging out of a doorless helicopter shooting the 40+ foot waves of Jaws. I don't know what was more exciting - feeling my feet strapped to my little 6'0 tow board chattering down the face of Jaws or feeling the seatbelt tighten on my hips as the helicopter made dramatic bank turns racing out of the way of the spraying walls of water heaving towards us. Amazingly we landed safely at sunset, and my hair coated with sea spray looked like I just stuck my head in a commercial dryer. Ahhh, I felt invigorated like never before.
Heli footage tangent...sorry...here it is folks. BTW, 4 million people have viewed this on youtube, so you've probably already seen it.
December 15, 2007
Billabong Pro 2007 - Day 2
Honolua Bay + Glassy 4-5 foot barrelling waves = Pure surf perfection!
I found my favorite little perch on the side of Honolua Bay's gorgeous cliffs and shot round 3 of the Billabong Pro Maui. I captured only an -inth of all that beauty oozing out this oceanic paradise. The ladies were scoring so many clean barrels -- it was making me sit so far on the edge of my seat - that I literally almost fell off the cliff. My photographer friend Nicole Sanchez, who had me sit next to her on a safer part of the cliff, captured these amazing photos of the afternoon. Sponsors, spectators, competitors -- please contact Nicole Sanchez if you'd like to purchase any of these stunning images: Behind The Lens Maui Photography
The big news concluding yesterday's event was that Stephanie Gilmore has indeed made womens surf history -- our 2007 World Champ as rookie! If that wasn't enough for the young gun, today she also won the Billabong Pro Maui contest! Big congrats to "Happy Stephanie Gilmore"! She just opened the door to all the other young guns like Carissa Moore, Lani Doherty, Katrina Petroni, etc that will surely follow in Stephanie's footsteps. You just wait...a new generation of young rippers are hitting the ASP scene!
Enjoy the images and footage from yesterday's competition compliments of Maui Surfer Girls & Behind the Lens Maui!
Thank you Nicole Sanchez of Behind the Lens Maui for these amazing images!!
December 11, 2007
Biggest Waves Ever Ridden at Mavericks
As I was surfin' the internet tonight, I found this incredible footage on surfline.com. They claim that these are some of the biggest waves ridden at Mavericks during that last mondo swell.
The level of tow surfing is off the charts - See for yourself!
December 10, 2007
Billabong Pro 2007 - Trials
In the green spiralina shake waters of Honolua Bay, the Billabong Pro 2007 kicked off in 4-6 foot waves. Maui got pounded with storms last week, and the ocean has turned all shades of brown. It felt good to dry out on the sunny cliffs of Honolua Bay to watch another year of world class women's competion. Honolua Bay wanted to shut down during a few heats...long waits, mushy waves. But the contest prevailed, as did the konas.
The exciting news of this years contest is the three contenders for the 2007 WCT Championship title. The young dynamo from Brazil, Sylvana Lima, is currently 3rd on the tour. And another South American ripper - Peru's pride and joy, Sophia Mulanovich, is the former world champ and has a good shot at a second title. Last but not least, Stephanie Gilmore from Australia might make ASP history at this event. If she clinches the world title Stephanie will become the first to win the title on her rookie year. You go girl! All three have advanced through the first two rounds. They are fierce competitors, so it'll be awesome to see how the next day of competition will play out.
I love this contest because it's in my backyard. But even better is that it determines three winners of the tour: the Billabong Pro, Triple Crown, and the World Tour. The buzz is pretty thick on the heat scorched, red dirt of Honolua Bay.
Here's some of my favorite clips - I shot from the cliff today. Enjoy!
