To go or not to go? Well that’s a silly question!!

So I get back from Australia a little broken after my hooked in Pushloop crash and am told i have to take it easy and rest my shoulder for 8 – 12 weeks!!!

WWWhhattttt… are you kidding me…  nah,  that cant be right?  …that would take me to late April early March..  which means i would miss the Simmer Photoshoot on Maui!!

Well as you can guess after 4 weeks i was going pretty crazy… but my shoulder was feeling a lot better… i say better.. in that i mean i could move it and stuff with out my arm feeling like it was going to drop off.

So i started to test it a bit with pull ups etc and it seemed to be ok. In fact the worst thing was (and still is) sleeping on that side.. it’s just not possible for more than 30secs to a minute.. it bloody kills!  Also doing the dishes, cooking and vacuuming were very painful too

Anyway after pushing the Physio a bit i managed to get out of him that it wouldn’t do any more damage if i sailed on it (I showed him some freeride videos , it would just be painful… Well that’s the green light i thought and got straight on the phone to Simmer and told them i could make the shoot in Maui.. Game on!!! Just needed to pack the ibuprofen and ice packs!

Now I’ve had some pretty average trips to Maui over the years as I seem to scare the wind away!  But last year was amazing and easily my best trip to Maui ever!! I think i sailed everyday for just over 3 weeks with  waves pretty much all the time.

So this year I was going to Maui with high hopes. plus these hopes were raised when looking at the forecast the weeks before as there was bugger all wind which surely meant by the time i got there it was going to be cranking!

Justyna was pretty excited anyway as she was making her first trip to Maui. A place she’d dreamed of visiting since she was a little girl so with visions of coconuts, palm trees, hawain shirts and hulu dancing it was time to start packing!

To be continued..    Woooooooooo!