Extreme Windsurfing At Hookipa Beach And Tahiti – Antoni Martin & Camille Juban
Oct 27, 2026
Polynesians have been using boards with sails for hundreds of years. It wasn’t until the 1960s that windsurf board design real …
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Yeah, when you see
the leap on Tiopo,
you just want to go big
or go huge.
Wind
surf,
I
noticed
he
progressed
really
quickly
when
he
was
like
10
years
old.
He got things.
And then I got him at Hoquipa really early in the summer.
And, you know, it was windy and there were still little waves.
And he was flying out and he would go.
Off the waves, going out, jumping, hooked in.
And I kept yelling to him, no, you got on hook,
you got on hook, and he just blew me
off and just always jumped hooked in.
And then that led to later on him doing all his no-handed,
one-handed stuff, because he's
so
comfortable
hooked
in,
so
that
kind
of
was
an
indication
there.
When surfing at Hoquipa,
my dad would catch waves with me, and he'd sit.
Either below or above me, it didn't really matter.
But he would shout, wait, wait, wait,
because I had a tendency to go too early.
So he'd be, wait, wait, wait,
and then when it was time to go, he would shout, go!
And that was when I knew that it was okay
to race down the line and go into a bottom turn.

