You would imagine the son of Dave Ezzy, must have been drip-fed on windsurfing since the day he was born. With a sail loft in the garden and his dad heading for Ho’okipa every windy afternoon, surely it just had to be a matter of time before his son was hooked on sailing?
GE: “My dad didn’t make a special an effort to push windsurfing into my life. He left that up to me. But given that his whole life revolves around windsurfing, I couldn’t escape being a part of it. When I was really little my dad was a designer and board member of North Sails. When I was four, he left North and focused on Ezzy Sails, which he had started way before I was born. Every month, the mailman would deliver windsurfing magazines from around the world. During some point of my childhood, even Josh Angulo lived at our house for a short period of time. I can’t escape it! I am a child of windsurfing. Even so, I didn’t step onto a windsurf board until I was 10 or so. And that wasn’t with my dad. It was at a summer kids’ camp at Kanaha. All my friends did it, so I did it to. After that, my dad started teaching and sailing with me”