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Update from Friis
Once again I find myself back in Cape Town, South Africa for another winter of endless waves and windy beaches. This year has been a little different though. I joined a group of friends where I stay in a little wind hut in the garden of a hostel in the middle of Bloubergstrand. It’s been a great way to meet new people and it’s a perfect base for windsurfing north of Cape Town. Life down here runs in a very similar routine every day, you wake up, tjeck the forecast, the tide and the weather stations, then you go for a session, get back to the house for lunch, relax a bit and then you go for an evening session. By the time you get back home again you are so tired you only want to go to bed.
On the water this year I got it in my head that I wanted my Wave 360’s ready for competition and I’ve been charging every single wave hard to get the trick consistent. It’s not an easy thrick to get right because it requires perfect timing and choice of wave and section, but I’m starting to get the feeling for it now and my consistency is much better than before. I caught a few of them on my GoPro Hero 3 and put together this little video:
GoPro Wave 360's from Christopher Friis on Vimeo.
Here’s a few photos from a session I had in Whitsands the other day. It was blowing for 3,7 and the ramps were just perfect for jumping. I managed to pull off some pretty high tweaked pushloops, probably even the highest I’ve ever done. The best one unfortunately got a bit blurry, but you get the picture anyways! ;)
It’s also been a long time wish for me to put together a well made video and this year things have finaly come together as I have teamed up with videographer Henri Meyer and Manuel Grafenauer to produce a cool little short clip for the web. The past 3 weeks we have been testing, tuning in the cameras, worked on camera angles and getting the right light for the clip. It’s really a lot more work than you might think and I have a lot of respect for the people who do this for a living. Here is a few screenshots from some of our clips. Note that none of them has been color corrected yet! So it’s just the raw footage you are seeing.
I still have another month to go on here in Cape Town and I will probably be back with another update as soon as I have some good stuff for you guys ;)
Best regards
Christopher Friis
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