Greetings back from a Dutch windsurf fan! I guess your Dutch roots go back a long way? Is there a relation with the Van Bellen windsurf store over here (close to my home spot in Zeeland)? Anyway, great speed spot you have over there!
@@AlainNLDB hey mate, yeah I was born in Dirksland and came to Australia in 1978 with my parents when I was 1 year old. Van Bellen Surf was started by my uncle Loo who sold the business some years ago but they kept the name because it was well known. Must be my Dutch roots that explains why I love windsurfing!
Amazing, and edit effort just as extreme, but to us former sailboarders, this video is truly astounding. Nothing quite beats the thrill of speed on a sailboard...especially the times having Botany Bay to myself in >20 knots when should have been in chemistry lecture/class!
saw the other vid of you guys in primbee. and it was so exiting. even the background sound [love somebody else] matched so perfect ..I wish I had that wind here in Miami...regards 🤙
Excellent, I would never dare taking out my phantom 4 in those kinds of wind! However this will help me try with probably stronger winds than I usually do :) The Cure!!! does remind me some good teenage years :)
Love this video Paul ! So well filmed + really gets across the crazy speeds they are travelling. At 1:37 the other windsurfer is doing the type of speed that most beginner windsurfers do...then the speed windsurfer totally storms past !! Really makes me want to get back to my windsurfing days with my Pryde rig etc..also just seen the board almost spinning out at 3:42 on the wave crests - looks like top end of force 6 or even 7, so a hefty sail for that bit.
Hi Alex, glad you enjoyed it. Yes, that other windsurfer was on freestyle gear so not a fair comparison by any stretch. When looking at the footage of me working upwind at 3:42 it does look like I'm spinning out but it is actually just the poor tracking ability of the small fins we use. That day I was using an 18cm long weed fin, this gives best access to the super shallow water and provides minimal wetted surface at speed. It tracks straight well enough at speeds above 30kts and when heading off the breeze, however, working upwind is difficult, especially if you start slowing down. These well designed fins can handle this angle of attack without fully spinning out.
@@detlevmueller2080 Wow. The technology has certainly moved on a lot from when I used to Windsurf back in the 80's + 90's with just one humble fin + watching out for the occasional anchor chain from moored boats. Also do you know how may knots you were going on that day or what your fastest speed has ever been. You mention 35 knot wind. Do you still use speed propellers on the fins ?
@@alexcave7573 we're now using Doppler GPS technology to log our speeds, in the video you can see them stuck to our shoulders. That day we were doing between 39 and 41kts. The fastest I have gone so far is 42.5kts at Primbee. Others have done up to 44kts at Primbee.
@@detlevmueller2080 Wow. You did 42 knots !! That is so quick. Most of the rib rescue boats do not even go that fast, so you could potentially speed past them if they were out at the same time rescuing someone at sea. In fact 42 knots is more akin to power boat speeds and to think that you were doing this under sail power!
Another awesome video! You fly so close and low to the action, amazing skills. I'm surprised how well the Phantom 4 is working for you in that much wind. I think My Phantom 3 would be drifting down wind quickly.
Raccoonov glad you enjoyed it. I was using a UFO 18cm 50 degree weed speed fin. Mark was using a Delta XT 16cm fin. These let us get into the shallow flat water on the speed boards. On slalom boards we are using 22-26cm fins.
Hello from France ! I used to practice windsurf and I was wondering how the water could be si flat with the wind speed required to ride that fast ... Until I saw how shallow the water was!
If you look on Google earth I go in San Pablo bay waist deep & I stay to the left up high but the fetch makes the waves build up fast great for jumping but not for speed like what your doing there! I noticed you stay in the middle of the lake if you get close do the trees act as a wind block? We all launch from Bullhead flats.and stay high if you don't you might spend the night in the bay or have to be rescued !
@@sqeakgeek Ah I see! I had a look on the map... looks like a great stretch of water to sail! if you go close to the trees at Prime the water is too shallow.
Paul van Bellen Well hey man if U find your self in the Bay Area look me up here & I will take U there kind of a secret spot only good on a northwest wind Also much less likely bumping into a white shark I am up in Sonoma county now & go to Bodega Bay where running into a large shark more possible BUT so is getting stung be a bee? However you won't lose a limb to a bee!😂👀😱
Чудове відео, просто супер швидкість, дякую Паул. Я початківець в віндсерфінгу. Але мрію, що через деякий час теж буду так літати! З повагою, з України!
Insane footage. Can imagine you've edited all night, I would have done the same. By the way, not sure if I would dare to use my drone in 35 knots. Good to know it's possible!
"There were heaps of shots I couldn't use because the gimbal was going haywire in the wind." I would've imagined, you were going pretty fast, the wind must be pretty strong.
Hi Kostas, water is semi-tidal so varies by about 20-50cm over the sailing area. On this day it was about 20-30cm deep. I was using an 18cm fin and hitting the bottom when I started slowing down. That’s why you don’t see any gybes.
We just know the area VERY well and use certain markers to give us an accurate reading of depth with tide and wind changes. In this video the water was 20-30cm deep in the main sailing area and I was using an 18cm fin. We regularly hit the bottom, however, our short fins are swept back at an angle of 50 degrees, so hitting the sandy bottom is usually not too violent. So long as we don't hit a big sand bar, log, rock, crab pot, car tire, stingray etc. Slowing down is a problem, so we tend to do few jibes and get out of the footstraps before we slow down.
Hi Fab, our peak speeds were from 38-42 knots. I was using an iSonic Speed Special W49 Board with a UFO 18cm 50 degree weed fin. Sails were a Gun GSR 6.3 and a Simmer SC Speed 5.8. Mark was also sailing an iSonic Speed Special W49 with an MUF Delta XT 16 fin and a North Warp 5.7 Sail. Keith was on a Naish SP80 with a custom 18cm fin and a Neil Pryde EVO 5.5 sail.
Detlev Mueller hi detlev. i watched many videos of you in primbee already and definitely want to go there. when was this video taken? which month of the year are good for flat water speedsurfing in primbee? where exactly is the place where you enter the water? and finally, can you recommend a place to rent the equipment? ... because we come from the other side of the planet 😉 cheers christian
@@christianmmoser Hi Christian, Primbee is best in winds from the NW-SW. These winds are most common during our winter (Jun-Aug) however we do get them all year round. In summer we get strong NE seabreezes and cold fronts from the SW-SE. Nearby are also the excellent wavesailing locations of Gerroa, Windang and Peggies. The video was taken last week (Thu-Fri). The previous video was from July 2018. The car park is in Bundah Pl, Primbee. It has a large grass rigging area. On google earth you can see the size of the shallow area of the lake nearby. Unfortunately, there is no local rental or windsurf shop. We are about 1.5hrs drive from Sydney and there are more options there. Try WindSurfnSnow, Windsurfing Religion or TheWindsurfingShed. Alternately, look on seabreeze.com.au for second hand equipment. If you have any further questions you can best post them on the seabreeze GPS forum. You will always get a response. It is rare that our sailors post on GPSSS, we mostly participate in GPS Team Challenge and you can see our posts there. The local teams are the Illawarra Speedsters and the ACT Gustbusters. The Sydney teams also sail here frequently. We look forward to sharing our wind and flat water with you!! Cheers, Detlev
Detlev Mueller hi detlev thank you very much! do i find the actual info about the wind situation on seabreeze or is there also a facebook group or something else where the people post if it’s good for surfing or not?
Tell me about it!!! It's taken 38 years of windsurfing to get decent footage of me to show my mates. I show them and they go "Nah, that's sped up!!!". I give up :(
Great job! Nice transition effect. Look my video if you would see another point of view. My home spot is Laguna of Venice (ITALY). But more chop than your spot! Lucky wind!
Hola hombre! It's not for me, that I wrote that.. It was just a suggest.. I think that with those beautiful scenes you composed your video, you show much more that "tecnical skills" about windsurf.. Also thanks to the drone, that video can be an artistic rapresentation of many other things, like the power of Nature espressed through the wind, the sense of freedom that gives that experiece, etc.. I mean.. the music, in my opinion, should be something like an "evocative soundtrack".. Not that terrible plastic acid old 80' forgettable track.. But it was just my idea, man.. Saludos!!
Looks like 6 people agree with you, and 471 don’t. 😜 But I know what you mean there’s many ways to approach making a video... for this one I decided to go high energy.
I was having a peaceful session until a massive flying mosquito started buzzing around my head. Seriously I’ve woken up for the past 3 night in a hot sweat thinking I’m getting attacked by Mossies. Bloody drones ruining my connection with nature.
Yes! In France we call the boom: "the weeeeshbonnn" (we use the actual english word, You know, the chicken bone...). Anyway, it is sill a little bit too low... mon ami! Just set it a little bit higher and You'll can push a little bit more on your legs. That's my advise. Cheers!
When the lockdown started last spring I saw windsurfers blasting over my local lake, I got curious about this sport, then I found this wonderful video with music from my teenage years, it really resonated with me, since then I'm totally hooked to this incredible sport! Thanks for making such beautiful videos!
Wooooouuuuwww... what a great Vid. This shows perfectly, how exciting and terrific Speed-Windsurfing in flatwater is... Great job, Paul. Thanx a bunch.
Yes, things can go wrong very quickly at those speeds. Most injuries are from hitting our gear at speed rather than hitting the ground. Our biggest risks are striking submerged objects, logs etc, especially after rain.
Thought the same. I am always afraid in the shallow water. No water start but possibly injuries. Wearing a helmet is a must. Can not understand people without a helmet going that fast.
You're a pretty posh Dutchy, when you fly from Amsterdam to Primbee Lake, just for TWO days windsurfing. Van Bellen? Sounds like Van Halen. Great video!
