MAUI WOWIE
Earlier this year I was hanging out with the Fanatic team at a house in Spreks on a wet and dreary day when we came up with the idea of checking Kihei. Ever keen to score some action on an otherwise dead day on the North Shore, myself Max Rowe and Gollito Estredo lead the charge and forty minutes later were in the car park at Maui Sunset faced with 4m conditions and waist high ramps. A sick session ensued as Gollito and Max diced with the shallow reef throwing huge moves although ironically it was me who cut up my legs after walking into a submerged chunk of coral on my way back in! When Gollito is in the zone, some of the freestyle moves he can produce are off the hook. With power in his sail, and any sort of ramp on offer, anything is possible; such is the talent of the five times world champ. When he is sailing for the camera it is almost like he is in performing in a competition, cursing when he misses a ramp and fist clenching when he nails a sick move! As for looking at the lens, that is never a problem with Gollito, its almost like a sixth sense to throw his head the camera’s way from whatever position he finds himself in from his crazy moves. Later that evening when we smugly returned to the North shore, the rest of the guys were still lounging around on the couch at the house after enduring a whole afternoon of torrential rain, mosquitos and zero wind. We had scored and needless to say like all good windsurfers, we rubbed it into the couch crew as much as possible!
