A New Video
Well, I am just now coming off of a 7-week foot injury. My foot is still a bit sore, but I can feel it gaining strength every day. I jumped straight into hi-wind board testing with Windsurfing Magazine for my first days back on the water. It was a good way to get back, because I was riding boards without doing too much jumping. I did toss in a few forward loops today just to make sure that I could stil do it. I was a perferct 5 for 5, so I guess I haven’t lost it! Testing was fun, with 10 different maunufacturers entering their 80-90L boards for us to try.
Just came across another Oregon Coast video by Jake Miller, of Snakebite Productions. Jake and I are the featured riders. Enjoy.
A Few Water Shots
Here is a sequence of me that I came across on Francky’s website (http://www.mauiwatershoot.com/WELCOME.html). He captured my Pushloop while Cyrus rode the wave. I remember it was a good clean jump that I landed. Maui has a good forecast for this upcoming week, so check back for more.
It has now been 3 weeks since I injured my foot, but the healing process is going well. I was on crutches for 10 days, and have steadily improved since. I think I was lucky it wasn’t worse. I had no broke bones, and both my knee and ankle escaped without any pain. Moving forward, I think with some strategically placed tape, I will be on the water in just a few days.
Russ
Back to Maui!
I returned to Maui in August, and have been blessed with top notch conditions throughout the period. I have been sailing almost every day. There has been a steady supply of small windswell waves to play with, and more recently a large out of season North swell arrived. The North swell provided some really epic conditions with 4.2 winds and logo to mast high+ waves breaking across the reefs. It was nice to have good power in the sail giving opportunity for massive jumps and powerful waverides.
I was having a great time when I crashed on a pushloop. My foot got twisted and yanked out of the footstrap injuring some ligaments. Fortunately I do not have any broken bones and look to be back on the water soon. For now, it is a very sore foot and no sailing.
I did get a few nice pictures of sailing, prior to my foot injury on that day. The water shots were taken by Dave Baker. He can be found at http://hotsurfphotos.com/view_photog.php?photogid=3. The jump was provided by OES Australia Maui.
A Maui Video
This is a video created by Jake Miller of me riding Maui last winter. Most of the footage is from Kuau, but there is some from Ho’okipa and “Secrets” as well.
Russ Faurot Promo from Jake Miller on Vimeo.
See ya on the water.
A New Gorge Video
Here is a video created by Dave Troup of epicsesh.blogspot.com. The video is from a big day at Arlington in the Gorge. Enjoy.
