It's that time of the year again, the Aloha Classic will be taking place from 21-10 to 01-11 at Ho'okipa beach.

With Marcilio Browne and Lina Erpenstein leading by a small margin, it could be quite an interesting wrap up of the wave tour this year.

Monday was a layday.

The heat draws are up: liveheats.com/events/187569

Very nice videos from Paul (van Bellen) about his maiden trip to Maui, especially the second one will be a trip down memory lane for the people that have been on Maui themselves. The first one is not bad either with a bit of back story on how Paul got to where he in in life now.

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Let's hope for a great contest! Bring it on!!

Did you see the video of Kai's new board. Insane! Would love to see it in the flesh to understand what he did with the shape

I have, it looks incredibly loose, very surfboard style as he likes that. Probably unsailable for us mere mortals. It's set up as a quad (MFC 4x4).

Tuesday the 22nd a layday as well.

Hey thanks for sharing Cuchufleta. I'm trying my best to get you guys some videos to learn more about Maui and windsurfing. Today went to Hot Sails... really interesting... will post later.

No worries, I should be thanking you for your vids Paul. They are taking me back to when I visited Maui, some 16 years ago now.

Keep 'em coming and enjoy your stay, Maui is incredible!

Here's your 3rd video, excellent as always:

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Let's hope they can start the comp on Thursday.

Love your work Paul. Am super interested in what you are showing. Is there any chance you could hit up Kai Lenny and Bernd to talk about their boards

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Flying Dutchman said..
Hey thanks for sharing Cuchufleta. I'm trying my best to get you guys some videos to learn more about Maui and windsurfing. Today went to Hot Sails... really interesting... will post later.

Your excitement when you first got to Ho'okipa reminded me of my visit 36 years ago when I was such a fan boy that I got Robbie's autograph! He was so generous with his time and it is awesome to see him still out there ripping!
Great job with the videos, Paul

loving the videos Paul, keep them coming.
Kai's an absolute beast behind the kit!!!!!
Glad you finally got to Maui mate, enjoy yewwww!

Thanks to the drones the audience is already diversifying
or is it just Gunsails guerrilla marketing?

Its been good so far. Enough wind and waves. Good coverage. I guess all the competition categories could be wrapped up in 2 more full days and from the windguru forecast it looks like there will be similar conditions for the next 3 days, Friday-Sunday. Then for Monday-Wednesday the waves in particular look to be better. So do we finish the competition ASAP or gamble on the forecast and finishing the competition in better conditions later?

Live for day 2.

Good waves but super light

Thx. Great way to spend a sat morning in Australia.

Waves are looking great

Let's hope that the wind will fill in a bit and they can commence with the comp

some awesome critical riding on that self-made contraption
he's going Kauli

Exciting to see what looks like a jump forward in evolution. Goya said it was basically a surfboard with a mast track and a bit of extra volume.

seems like Kai has a couple of different version there. Must be a small board. It sinks when he's dredging

seems more bi-directional as in their brotherly podcast Kai mentioned adopting windsurfboard bottom-shapes in his surfboards against traditional paradigms in that guild..
Anyways: smart campaign towards his own pedigree brand or line. Your wallets will take a hit :)
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Fascinating stuff. Thx

Fascinating indeed!
Unfortunately no live stream tonight. Juniors and Masters on today.

From the PWA insta :

Plan for Today is to run the Juniors and the Masters.

This means there will be no live broadcast but you can follow the action on the stories and we will record the action to bring you a highlights clip later.

Heat order:
Masters r1 h1-2
Youth r1 h1
Master r2 h1-4
Youth r1 h2
Masters semi h1-2
Youth final
Masters final

The finals are going to be of a very high level if the swell hangs around. Competition is tightening up

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Let's hope on a good finals day (today?)

In the Masters division it was Keith Teboul that came out on top. Nice looking board as well, a real Thruster set up (3 equal sized fins).

In the youth it was Liam Dunckerbeck claiming the victory.

Layday today, possible finals day tomorrow Monday 28th

More waiting but Paul will keep us entertained:

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Gestalt said..
Love your work Paul. Am super interested in what you are showing. Is there any chance you could hit up Kai Lenny and Bernd to talk about their boards

Kai Lenny board coming up!!

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Doogs500 said..
loving the videos Paul, keep them coming.
Kai's an absolute beast behind the kit!!!!!
Glad you finally got to Maui mate, enjoy yewwww!

Cheers Doogs ya legend!!!

I finally got to chat with my childhood hero!

Never meet your heroes, they say. Worked out pretty well for you Paul! Maui is good to you!

Tonight (Netherlands), finals. First possible start at 11:00 a.m. Hawaiian time.

Amazing sailing today. Awesome livestream. Absolutely glued to the screen.

Anyone know what that yellow thing is on Bernd's back?

He was in a conference call with his employer and some A-list clients, just like any other windsurfer worth his/her salt.

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philn said..
Anyone know what that yellow thing is on Bernd's back?

Was a dry bag listening to music.... according to him his favourite moments happened at:

"Fade to Black" Metallica
"Talk to me" Stevie nicks
"Voices Carry" Till Tuesday
"Ruin" Martin Odonnel
"Devi Prayer" Ananda

During the final he was listening to this:

(Bernd is such a farking legend haha)

Hi Paul
Love your content can you please catchup with dutch Rider Julia Meijer?

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Gnarawedo said..
Hi Paul
Love your content can you please catchup with dutch Rider Julia Meijer?

Tell her if she sees me to say hello! I have no idea who it is.

So he was using earbuds also ?
Don't know any that would stick for me !!

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Flying Dutchman said..

Gestalt said..
Love your work Paul. Am super interested in what you are showing. Is there any chance you could hit up Kai Lenny and Bernd to talk about their boards

Kai Lenny board coming up!!

Doogs500 said..
loving the videos Paul, keep them coming.
Kai's an absolute beast behind the kit!!!!!
Glad you finally got to Maui mate, enjoy yewwww!

Cheers Doogs ya legend!!!

I finally got to chat with my childhood hero!

What a great event! Wish it wasn't over. Can't wait to seeing Kai's board. So glad you managed to swing it for all the nerds.