paulh115

Crazyness

2012-01-22T23:19:00.000-08:00

Supermarket crazyness. This is how we roll in the US. 2 hamburgers?.... NOOOO 30! 1 liter of Coke..... Hell noo. At least 50 cans. So that's how it goes. To live cheap on Maui you buy Bulk. Everything in big loads. Here are some examples, but I will definately post again, because I love Bulk.

Out of Control

2012-01-21T20:53:00.000-08:00

Today 4.4 overpowered action. Sailed at Uppers Kanaha, Camp one and it was sick! Super difficult because there is chop coming from every side. Could try the 4.4 to the max. I also tried the 16 Black project freestyle fin. Good grip and slide. Tommorrow we're going to set some GPS records and some crazy supermarket stuff. Hopefully I can also try the 4.0 Freestyle pro tommorrow.

Pictures by: Nicky Lam
Patrik Diethelm FS 90 / Hot Sails Maui Freestyle pro 4.4

Night

2012-01-21T12:19:00.000-08:00

It seems that I'm making more pictures during the night that during the day. Today is testing day though, so hopefully I can get on the new 4.4 Freestyle pro with Patrik 90 and let somebody take some pictures. Some action footage now and than is always fun :P.

Kona one

2012-01-14T23:55:00.000-08:00

Windsurfing, surfing, swimming, designing..... everything is happening here on the island. Wind has changed its direction for Kona these days. Really light but good for an early morning surf and sometimes a later windsurf session. Tommorrow some rest and work on the all new Hotsails sail bags. Freestyle pro is going to be a crazy one! Keep you updated. Aloha!

Bonfire

2012-01-08T10:34:00.000-08:00

It is weekend, Nicky arrived, nice bonfire at the beach and today it will be time to hit the water again. Probably for some wavesailing at uppers.

Jeff is ready to burn the christmas tree down to the ground!

Action

2012-01-06T19:28:00.000-08:00

Freestyle, wave, slalom, you can do it all. I do hav eto say that this was the bumpiest freestyle session ever. Timing is crucial and there is chop everywhere. Kinda like Fuerte but the other way around. So freestyle was hard and really ahve to get used to the conditions, but the wave session afterwards was a lot of fun. Not really big and good to try stuff on.

Nick Warmuth doing a goiter.

Pictures by: Jeff Henderson (Tha Big Boss)

The Office

2012-01-05T21:03:00.000-08:00

The office / the people at the office / the stuff in the office. Woowww so much to experience when you're here on the island. I'm now here for two days and had two completely different sessions. On with pretty big waves and I was on my Patrik trailerwave 78 and Hotsails Firelight 5.5. I never use a 5.5. And today There were some waves, but definately not as high as yesterday. Way way smaller. But with a 4.2 pretty powered up.

Below you can find Chris Freeman working his @$$ off. Than we got Bart de Zwart, who charged Jaws yesterday. Some good pictures are allready circulating on facebook. And last but not least we got Tom Hammerton, Hot saildesigner.

I started on some small stuff. We'll be doing a video interview soon and a lot more coming up!

The trip

2012-01-04T10:43:00.000-08:00

From super rainy Amsterdam, to Burger King monster small Coca-Cola to the island of Maui. I arrived. Soon I will start doing some projects, surf a lot and keep you more updated on how life on the island is.

2011 Overview

2011-12-29T10:11:00.000-08:00

2011 has been different. It definately has its ups and downs. I did a few PWA events that were really fun and did some nice trips. But I also lost my dad a view months ago. Now I'm getting ready for 2012. I will go to Maui for 6 months and my study is going really well.

My forecast for 2012 looks a lot better than 2011, I hope it will be good for all you guys to.

See you in 2012

Greets Paul

Podersdorf is always hardcore! ps this is not one of the riders :P

Skateboarding with mr. Shane Pereira (http://www.shunoe.com)

Pictures by: Sjoerd Posthumus / Andraz Zan / me

2012

2011-12-24T15:25:00.000-08:00

Picture by: Horen Stalbe

Hotsails Freestyle pro test movie clip

2011-12-18T02:50:00.000-08:00

Here is the new short clip. Testing the new Hotsails Freestyle pro, with my Patrik Diethelme Freestyle 90 and 99. Test report about the sail soon! All the action footage was shot by Sjoerd Posthumus, upcoming action sports photographer. Check his website here: http://www.sjoerdposthumus.nl/#/1 Enjoy the clip.

New website

2011-12-14T12:10:00.000-08:00

I hope it will be soon, but I'm working on my new website: http://www.paulh115.com
It's my first time using wordpress and really have to get used to it and find my way in making a nice website that is completely up to date t othe standards we use today.

I would like to ask you, to give me input on this site! Thanks!

Here is the site http://www.paulh115.com/

Greets Paul

We go extreme!

2011-12-08T10:47:00.001-08:00

Oooh damm, sorry, you guys expected a movie probably. Well I'm bussy with that. Got the clips, editted it and I'm now thinking what to do with it in the after production. Maybe some effects some colours. Hopefully it will be finished soon.

Ooh and it took me about 1 and a half yeard before going to the barber :P.

New edit

2011-12-05T12:41:00.001-08:00

Working on a new clip filmed during my last two sessions. I was testing the new Hotsails Freestyle pro 4.8 on my Patrik Diethelm 90 and 99. Really good days, but it's starting to get pretty cold down here in Holland.

Filmed by Sjoerd Posthumus ( http://sjoerdposthumus.blogspot.com )

Shots

2011-12-03T08:56:00.001-08:00

Some shots while shooting intro stuff for the upcoming short clip.

Hotsails freestyle sail test p.1

2011-12-03T02:21:00.001-08:00

First good test on the Freestyle Pro 4.8. Ducks really easy but need to do some more testing before I will post a full size report. Small clip soon!

Thanks to Sjoerd Posthumus for filming: http://sjoerdposthumus.blogspot.com/

Hotsails freestyle sail development p.3

2011-11-23T12:53:00.001-08:00

The Design Part. As I do a study graphic design I needed to get involved with this design. There are a few made by Hot and a few by me.

Hopefully some wind in the upcoming days to do some testing!

Hot sketch 1.

Hot sketch 2.

Paul sketch 1 - I used the light stuff in the top. This is to expensive also Hot demanded to have the logo in full version in the top.

Paul sketch 2 - I put the logo in and also put the logo on the mast sleeve. This would cause the look to be a bit more agressive. These are just some colours I tried. Especially with print stuff you can do every colour you can imagine. I also included my padding design at the mastbase ;). Just a try, Hot is not making this "YET"! ;)

Paul design 3 - just an option

Notes that Tom made for the actual making of the sail. These were my first designs. I did not mentioned high load spots and stuff that need more reinforcement because of high pressure.

Hot / Paul final design - Hot made this final design. As you can see Hot took some stuff from my designs and made this sick final design. I like it a lot, maybe some strange sick colours if the sail will be in production.

For now 'note' that the sail is a prototype and it is not sure this will be a production sail!!!

The Fog

2011-11-21T11:39:00.001-08:00

There's a lot of fog at the moment. Trying some timelapses with my new camera. Here some

test shots.

Photos: Paul Zeper

Hotsails freestyle sail development p.2

2011-11-17T15:16:00.000-08:00

Check out the detailed pictures of the new Hotsails Freestyle pro 4.8.

foot - clew angle, allmost straight

clew patch
Loose leech / twist
profile / battens slightly more than half way over the mast
First batten above the boom
bottom batten
small dacron panel in the front of the sail

Hotsails freestyle sail development p.1

2011-11-14T13:19:00.000-08:00

I compared 3 hotsails sails. The Bolt 4.7, Firelight 5.0 and the new Freestyle pro 4.8 (no production sail yet). As you see immediately

the firelight is a bit bigger, 5.0, but in this report I will only look at the shaping and how the sails look on land. To be clear, all sails are

rigged for freestyle purpose, so not for wavesailing. With freestyle we want power, control with perfect handling for especially ducking.

When is a sail good for ducking? Well, when you duck a sail the sail should stay as neutral as possible. Lets say you duck with a camber

sail. When you throw the sail behind you de camber will flip to the other side giving the sail more swing and you'll throw it in the water

immediately. So we want some profile for power, but not to much.

Besides the ducking abbilities it must be light and easy to handle. Well all 3 sails are light. The firelight is the lightest production wavesail

at the moment. The Bolt is the 4 batten new school freestyle wave and the Freestyle pro s a 4 batten full monofilm sail that felt pretty

much the same as the firelight. I will not weigh the sails as that is a bit B@##SH@#@ in my opinion. It is the feeling especially on the water.

The Bolt

The Bolt is fully x-ply, making the sail a lot softer than monofilm sails. The bottom batten ends above the boom. Because of this the whole

sail twists. I can tell a bit more about the sail as I'm allready using it for more than 2 years now. To keep it short, some feautures with

okay / good / awesome.

- Getting planing: awesome

- Power: awesome

- Ducking: good

- Light on the water: okay

- Handling: good

The Bolt is pretty good, but as the moves get bigger and more technical, we (the Hot freestyle PWA team) demanded a new sail that was

even better. A sail where you don't even have to duck to do a massive kono or burner (not possible). So we came out with the Freestyle pro.

profile of the new Hotsails Freestyle pro

Freestyle pro

Okay, no water experience yet but rigged it an checked every detail. First, the construction is super light. Hot used the same mast sleeve as

on the Firelight. No OX-webbing, so it will not survive a mast breakage or reef walking experience as good as the OXwebbing mastsleeves.

But it is light and stiff. Besides the light sleeve the sail is allmost a 100% monofilm. Monofilm is not only light as you have it in

different thinckness, it is also stiff. Monofilm can give you a super stiff and direct feel.

Rigged the FSPro is very thight. The top has a lot more tension than the Bolt and the top two battens are pulled thighter away from the mast

to. Only the bottom batten has some profile for the power. There is a small stroke of dacron in the front of the sail. This will give you

some forgiveness and an easier built up. What does that mean? When you duck the sail and crab it on the other side of the boom the dacron

absorbes some wind and than you can push out to do you move. No dacron would mean instant power and a bigger chance of getting blown

of your board.

Conclusion for now, stiff, direct, light. It will be more stable than the Bolt, but don't know if it will plane as fast. It seems that the sail is going to be

better in ducking and you'll probably also get a higher top speed than with the Bolt. It is definately weaker.

Batten tension of the Firelight

Firelight

The Firelight is the new super light wavesail. It feels light and it looks light. Super detail and some really nice exotic materials. But I don't care!

How will it be for freestyle? At the moment there is about zero wind and zero degrees in Holland so I can just tell what I see.

The firelight has a lot of profile. It looks powerfull. The two bottom battens have some seamshaping, so fast planning guaranteed. The sail

feels really light, but don't know how it will feel if the wind will fill the sail. I think the handling will be easy, but the ducking will be harder. Like

the camber example. I think the sail has to much shaping for freestyle.

One more thing is the line from the clew to the mastbase. With the Bolt it's straight and with the FSpro allmost straight. The Firelight has a lot

more square meters under the boom. So also for ducking maybe more difficult.

Conclusion: hard one, can't really tell, feels light, will plane fast, questionmark for ducking.

I think this is it for now. Nex time less text more compare photo's and enjoy your sneak preview of the new Hotsails Freestyle pro.

New Camera test

2011-11-10T14:45:00.000-08:00

A day on the road true The Hague with my new camera. Not a lot of testing yet. Have to clear up my mind before getting really creative again. This is just a post to keep things going. Enjoi!

Beats&Pieces

2011-11-09T05:19:00.000-08:00

Last friday Beats&Pieces was happening. It was a great succes with around 200 different people that showed up and checked out the pieces and listened to the music. Up to the next one.

Thanks to all the Artists:

Art: Robin Leevel, Caro Butters, Wairtistic, Jut & Jul, en Setik.

Dj's: Mike Jungerius, Vincent-Paolo, Mr Blonde, Paulsebastian & Teenageluck

Adventure trip

2011-11-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

Winter

2011-10-20T03:02:00.000-07:00

Cold has entered the Netherlands. But not cold enough. Still have my shoes and headcap in the back, so when it really gets cold. I leave Holland! I'm preparing some trips for this winter. Less competitions, more video / photo / training. As we like to call it "training". Here is some stuff from thursdays session. A pic because I want to update, and a pic because my mom had vintage pictures. Vintage rocks!

Here is a picture of my mom back in the days. One of the first windsurfers. The windglider. Aah yeah.

Pictures by: Sjoerd Posthumus / Paul Zeper

Beats & Pieces

2011-10-13T00:52:00.000-07:00

4 Novembre Beats & Pieces. Hoofddorp, Duycker. BE THERE!

Flyer by: http://wairtistic.tumblr.com/