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Guincho with Graham

Graham does Guincho from umi pictures on Vimeo. Brendan and I crashed the party at Guincho this summer. Even though it is one of the best summer wave spots in Europe, Guincho remains off the main map of the windsurfing media. We took a quirky hotel right on the beach and focused all of our […]

Guincho with James Bond

Here is a clip from the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The whole opening sequence takes place around Guincho and on Guincho beach itself. Good thing the waves weren’t too big that day!

Baja’s Mexican Memories

Graham Ezzy goes down south from umi pictures on Vimeo. Mexico is like jail; easy to enter, hard to leave. At the end of July, the waves in Baja were so good that even though I’d left my passport at a friend’s house in New York City, I crossed the border into Mexico in search […]