QUICK-FIRE QUESTIONS
Three words to describe yourself?
1. Driven
2. Lazy, (Myself and life are a paradox!)
3. Happy
Name five other sailors whose style you really admire and why?
1: Josh Angulo is the early 90s was highly influential. The projection into tweaked airs was such a natural extension of hitting the lip really hard, full-rail driven with a certain ‘F%#@ You’ attitude.
2: Kauli [Seadi] in Cabo Verde for his tight full-rail no slide carving was a joy to watch. He looked pretty on it in Maui this year too.
3: Levi [Siver] for combining smooth, fluent and radical all at the same time.
4: [Philip] Koester for repeatedly blowing my brain with a solid full rail power hack to boot.
5: Jaeger Stone is also smooth and radical. But it’s kind of like a [Kelly]
Slater thing. He’s just a pleasure to watch and then he will blow your mind.
Where’s home for you right now?
Margaret River. But I don’t get to spend so much time there these days. Ben Severne is always giving me shit with comments like “you heading home?” when I go to Thailand, because I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in Bangkok lately!
What ambitions do you have?
Windsurfing wise? None really. Although I’ve been finding myself still wanting to go to Chile if that comp ever goes ahead or maybe the Peru AWT event. But these are just excuses to go and sail some good waves. I guess you can say that’s my main ambition. Just to stay on the water and feel like I’m still improving, which is the case, because our boards keep getting better. To keep up the stoke and keep having fun. You never know what’s around the corner!
What’s your ideal quiver of three boards for a road trip from Margaret River down to Esperance and why?
82, 74, and 70 quads. 82 for the grovel around days which are probably the best. (Cleanest) 74 is my go to board for pretty much everything. I’m usually on my 5.0 so I’m usually on my 74. It handles the groveling days to powered up equally as well. If it starts to get bloody windy or I’m powered up on my 4.7 I’ll jump down to the 70. As the board gets smaller so does the response and agility.
What conditions excite you these days?
The same as always. Side to side-off 6-8 feet down-the-line, which I’ve had a bit of recently. I get equally frothed over good Tenerife or cross-on conditions. As Long as you’re powered up and there are lips to hit, it’s all good wholesome fun!