Maui Monday: Sept 5-12, 2011
by Graham
The waves are back! On the glorious 8th of September, a small north swell hit Hookipa right in the face. Unfortunately, I left the night of the 7th to go to the east coast. This only reaffirms one of surfing’s age-old lines: “It was always better before you got there and after you left.” So many times, you show up at the beach and your buddies laugh at how good the waves and wind were only thirty minutes before you pulled up– you missed it! Always!
But this only means that one should never be upset about missing out on good surf because one will always miss good surf. (If that makes any sense at all…). So, I remain calm and not jealous. I know there will be good waves and wind when I get back to Maui and that I’m happy with what I’m doing right now (sitting 4000 miles away from the Hawaiian waves).
Check some pics from the swell. The Kevin Pritchard and my dad David Ezzy got some good ones:
The Pritchard throws a taka!
Kevin throws buckets of spray with his rail.
My dad David Ezzy is the last one of the first generation of Hookipa windsurfers.
David Ezzy was in the first generation of Hookipa pros in the early 80’s, and now he is the last one still sailing at Hookipa. He still loves big waves– over mast high, and he goes out even when I think it’s too gnarly. I remember one winter day years ago that was double mast high and the wind was from the right at Hookipa but just half a mile down the coast at Lanes it was from the left (Kona’s starting). David went out anyway. He ended up getting stuck with no wind and having to duck dive (yes, duck dive) some monster sets on the outside– swimming down with his sail and board to get under the breaking wave. I couldn’t be more proud to have him as my teacher.