Going with yellow now!

Hello everybody,


already a month ago since my last update here.... time flies when it's windy!
We had a couple of really good days here at the Belgian coast, the weekend of 22nd and 23th of June being the headliner. See a new little clip about that weekend here:

On Saturday Sam and I rode to Wissant France and had a great day with 4.7 and 4.0.
See some footage below from a harnessmount I made out of an old boom-end:

Tabletopforwarding the hell out of rainbows!

Good waves in Wissant, just love the 77l Witch

Grip!

Forward

Tabletopfwd again, nice view

This was a hard one, made my camera shift down unfortunately

Cutback

Learned this one on Saturday, One footed forward. Tried about 2, then landed  them pretty much consistent

So much fun when the waves are almost perfect

Big shove it

On Sunday the wind picked up a little bit later on the day. I was already riding with 5.4 that afternoon and decided to keep the 5.4 on to get used to the big sail in somewhat high wind. Everybody always complains about the Boxers being backhanded and unstable when overpowered but that is a thing of the past. Yes they have a lot of power, but when you can handle it the sails are really stable and provide awesome lift when overpowered.
On the 5.4 I even landed some backloops and some nice tabletop forwards. For the size, it's really manoeuvrable.

Some pics of Sunday, thanks to my girlfriend for having cold toes and filming me!

One footed front on film!

Againnn little tablefront

First backloopwave of the day!

Yes!

Little tabletop

Now the wind is completely gone for already more than a week, and it looks like it's going to stay away some more time.
In the meantime I got some time to do some emailing...

K4-fins and Zuidwest6.nl offered me a very good deal on the yellow fins and got 4 sets for my 2 boards.
K4's are plactic moulded, and more felxible than G10 alternatives. Which is more suitable for multifin boards nowadays. The flex provides more drive and speed in the turns, en allows to push the board really hard in the cutback.

Also the price is way more interesting compared to a MFC or MUFFIN-finset. For example you pay a minimum of 216 euros for a MFC trifinset, but at K4, you can get a trifinset for just 69.50 euros!!!
That's a huge difference you could use to pay your gas...

For the Witchcraft K4 provided the new Ezzy assymetric fins. They are available in 1 and 2 degrees of toe-in. For my WC the 1's are most suitable since the boxes already have some toe. Got them in 10 and 12cm, can't wait to rip it up with them!

Here an article about the new Ezzy's and a test with a Quad board:

About Ezzy assymetrics

U-ride test met Ezzy's

K4 Website 

Some pictures I took: 

Thanks Graham Ezzy :)

Ezzy's 12, Stubby 13

Flex 17cm

For people interested in testing the K4's, I have available:
-Flex twin 17cm US (can be used for a quad)
-Stubby twin 16cm US (can be used for a quad)
-Stubby center 13 & 14cm US
-Ezzy's 10 & 12cm MT

Contact me on facebook for possible spots we can meet.


That was it for this update. Next time I'll hopefully have some pics with the K4's under my boards!

Thans a lot to K4 and Zuidwest6.nl for giving me this support!

Let's hope for WIIIINNNDDDDD

Long update!

Hi everybody,

It's been a while since the last update, but with no wind at all for about 2 months here in Belgium there wasn't much to update!
In the meanwhile my knee and ankle got a lot better and no problems anymore on the water.
I went to Wissant a couple of days in those 2 months, but the conditions were far from perfect. Small waves and gusty 4.7 wind.
We had some fun and it was just good to be on the water with friends again.
We were getting pretty frustrated as the weeks passed without any wind and waves.

Some nice waves in Wissant but just nog enough wind sometimes.

Fail in Wissant!

Also I was in contact with Jeroen Aerts who wanted to do an article about Belgian windsurfers who go to better places in wintertime. We all had to write a little section about our stay in South Africa.
To bad the names got a little mixed up, with my picture is a line of Robin Caris, and the other way round.

A picture I took

Sketchy backloop-pic

For the first time I decided to compete in the Belgian Championship Wave, never did any wave-contest before so I was quite nervous for my first heats.

Friday 10th of May was the first day of competition for the single elimination, my first heat was against Annelies Brak which I won with a nice Tabletop Forward.

Next heat was against Jonas Handekyn  ( Last Belgian Champion) which I knew I couldn't win on forehand.
I tried my best and until the last 2 minutes it was very close but then Jonas did a nice Taka and a one-handed  backloop and that was it for me.
Note to myself: Get on those Takas!

Jonas Handekyn with a Taka in our heat. Congrats Joñas!!

Backside

Almost 'till the end one-handed

Me, Jonas and Dieter (Congrats to Dieter for winning the event!!!)

So my day of competing was over but there was still another day for the doubles.
Saturday the wind picked up very late, around 15.45. First start at 16.15 with the new guys.
My first heat was in the 4th round against Stijn De Pauw.
I didn't know a lot about Stijn and vice versa so it was a guess how I would do.
I decided to trim my sail with a little bit to much power to make sure I could do enough jumps and have enough power to wave-ride.
That was a good guess and it payed of, I did a high stalled forward, a tabletopforward, a good one-handed forward and a very clean cheeseroll. I don't know what the judges scored for but I won this heat.

Getting pumped up!

Matthias and me going out at the beginning of the heat

Incoming!

Next time I'm tailgrabbing it!

Next heat was against Tom scheirlinck and too bad for me but the wind died a little and I didn't manage to plane for the half of the heat so couldn't give my all. I lost this heat and that settled me for 7th place.

My goal was to be in top 10 so I'm quite happy with 7th place result.
Now I'm even more motivated to learn some new moves to hopefully get a better result  next year!

Check my facebook for full sequences of pictures. https://www.facebook.com/maxim.debuck

Special thanks to Sam Dekeyser for the nice pics and Twinsclub photographer Patrick Kindt.


So let's cross fingers for awesome conditions here in Belgium. A hardcore 4.0 session would be very welcome!

See you next update !!!