Primbee Speed Windsurfing II
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- G'Day friends,
So I went back to Primbee for 2 days straight on a strong wind forecast & managed to just get enough footage to make this video. Wind was gusting over 35 knots at times so I was certainly testing the limits of the Phantom 4. There were heaps of shots I couldn't use because the gimbal was going haywire in the wind.
I came home at 9pm from Primbee & it's now 7am I edited all night without sleep I was enjoying it too much!
I'm off to bed now...
Zzzzzzz,
Paul
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Water may be shallow, but the experience isn’t. You’re blessed and gifted. Footage is a living dream.
Cheers Mike!
Right that's it! I'm getting back on my windsurfer after 20 odd years and going for it👍.
Superb video,👌
Go for it!
When the lockdown started last spring I saw windsurfers blasting over my local lake, I got curious about this sport, then I found this wonderful video with music from my teenage years, it really resonated with me, since then I'm totally hooked to this incredible sport! Thanks for making such beautiful videos!
That’s so cool Aurelian welcome to the family!!
Great video. Absolutely the closest you can get to the feeling of sailing at high speed.
Cheers mate
Well done son! Loved it. Helps a 63 year old prep for winters paddleboarding sans sailing....ha!
Ha cheers Steve!
that´s the perfect days that makes life shining,.. love it
Cheers!
Amazing footage. I cannot imagine how much wiping out at this speed in such shallow water would hurt
Yes, things can go wrong very quickly at those speeds. Most injuries are from hitting our gear at speed rather than hitting the ground. Our biggest risks are striking submerged objects, logs etc, especially after rain.
Thought the same. I am always afraid in the shallow water. No water start but possibly injuries. Wearing a helmet is a must. Can not understand people without a helmet going that fast.
best speed windsurfing footage !!! Respect drone pilot-operator :)
Glad you liked it mate!
@@windsurfer what drone are you using ? Thank you for your time
@@dveziris For this video I was using a DJI Phantom 4. I've now sold that and use a Mavic 2 Zoom.
I was waiting for someone to attempt a jibe! :)
I never felt more alive than the moments after an epic windsurfing sesh!
Yeah I was hoping for that too but it was too shallow so most of the time they slow down and jump off the board. It was like 20cm deep in places
The passion doesn't know limits. The video is very nice.
Wooooouuuuwww... what a great Vid. This shows perfectly, how exciting and terrific Speed-Windsurfing in flatwater is... Great job, Paul. Thanx a bunch.
Cheers Freddy!
Amazing, and edit effort just as extreme, but to us former sailboarders, this video is truly astounding. Nothing quite beats the thrill of speed on a sailboard...especially the times having Botany Bay to myself in >20 knots when should have been in chemistry lecture/class!
Happy you enjoyed the video Sewerrat!
Incredible. What a speed
Perfect use of 80ies music for a 80ies sport.😄 ( started Windsurfing '78🤗)
Nice mate!
That "Love ya buddy!" spray at 3:01. This video was awesome!
Ha! Yeah I like that part too.
its beautiful, watch the sky and clouds move with speed against the trees, and yer boyo is hurtling along havin a thill from utopia!
Thank you John!!
Reminds me of my old windsurfing days down at Narbonne and Port Leaucate in the noughties, speedsailing up and down the Med coast in on offshore Tramontana with a then young Antoine Albeau...excellent bid and good to hear The Cure as the soundtrack. Top drone skills too.
Thanks Ian must have been some great times!
Amazing👍 I love it. That´s the feeling. Great sound too. Thank you for sharing
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Amazing footage, probably the best windsurfing video on TH-cam to show whats currently possible with drones at high winds, well done!
Cheers Lino!
Greetings back from a Dutch windsurf fan! I guess your Dutch roots go back a long way? Is there a relation with the Van Bellen windsurf store over here (close to my home spot in Zeeland)? Anyway, great speed spot you have over there!
@@AlainNLDB hey mate, yeah I was born in Dirksland and came to Australia in 1978 with my parents when I was 1 year old. Van Bellen Surf was started by my uncle Loo who sold the business some years ago but they kept the name because it was well known. Must be my Dutch roots that explains why I love windsurfing!
Absolutely brilliant footage. Great sailing. The spot looks like flat water heaven!
It's a great spot!
Love your work Paul - especially when you show our beautiful lake to the world. Personally I prefer the nor’easterly run from Whyjuck Bay to Kanahooka
john davey I’ll come back in a NE when there’s no waves 🤙
Rest assured John, we're already working hard to lure Paul back for a noreaster with the promise of good speed but a lot more gybing action, perhaps some choreographed runs, and all in a more drone-friendly wind!
Sounds good - and if you want some wind waves to show some air then try the Whyjuck Bay (Reddall Parade) to Kanahooka Point and.- its 3.5 klms and a great run
Awesome video- just the sort of sailing I love doing!
Cool Richard, windsurfing fast is great fun!
Amazing , love this .>.>.🌞✨🌈🌊😍Thank you for such Awesome inspiration. ! Love for Long Island , NY
You are so welcome!
Завораживающее видео! Огонь!
Wow, love Speed Windsurfing
very very very nice!!!!!!
Cheers mate!
Nice spot ; wonderfull video and Cure !
Laurent Laroche The Cure is good!
The need for speed is the Cure ! love it. thx for the nice vid.
Awesome sailing and video, in chocolate water, yum! Thks for sharing. Watching this hurts my ribs as I just got caught full speed (well, not as fast as this) in a kelp bed and got launched..
sabyx5 ouch mate it can hurt stacking going fast, hope all is ok!
Dream spot! Thumbs up!!!
Smog1988windsurfing it’s pretty sick!
Beautiful video!
Glad you liked it!
Awesome vid, mate. It takes me right there. I can feel the wind and smell the water.
Great! That was the idea!!
Nice spot! nice footage! nice speed! All good!
Clark Gaybeul 🤙
saw the other vid of you guys in primbee. and it was so exiting. even the background sound [love somebody else] matched so perfect ..I wish I had that wind here in Miami...regards 🤙
Just great! Reminds me so much of younger days at Leucate or Porto Pollo! I should go for it at least one mor time!
Get into it!
Great! Thanks. So weird to see people walking around in knee deep water just next to the surfer. With those sails you expect longer fins than that.
Yeah it's a special spot
Excellent, I would never dare taking out my phantom 4 in those kinds of wind! However this will help me try with probably stronger winds than I usually do :) The Cure!!! does remind me some good teenage years :)
Nicolas Bryant go for it mate you’ll be surprised what the drone can take.... just make sure you can fly home without draining battery!
i have watched this so many times and it looks a amazing place to Windsurf defo one of a kind
It's a great spot Simon!
@@windsurfer looks Incredible!
This video is pure perfection! Great video! (for a moment I felt as if I was there too! ;))
Ah cool Header, that was the idea mate!!
Absolutely Brilliant footage 👌 Couldn't fault it. Nice one.
Thank you SG!!
@@windsurfer your welcome 👍
Love this video Paul ! So well filmed + really gets across the crazy speeds they are travelling. At 1:37 the other windsurfer is doing the type of speed that most beginner windsurfers do...then the speed windsurfer totally storms past !! Really makes me want to get back to my windsurfing days with my Pryde rig etc..also just seen the board almost spinning out at 3:42 on the wave crests - looks like top end of force 6 or even 7, so a hefty sail for that bit.
Hi Alex, glad you enjoyed it. Yes, that other windsurfer was on freestyle gear so not a fair comparison by any stretch. When looking at the footage of me working upwind at 3:42 it does look like I'm spinning out but it is actually just the poor tracking ability of the small fins we use. That day I was using an 18cm long weed fin, this gives best access to the super shallow water and provides minimal wetted surface at speed. It tracks straight well enough at speeds above 30kts and when heading off the breeze, however, working upwind is difficult, especially if you start slowing down. These well designed fins can handle this angle of attack without fully spinning out.
@@detlevmueller2080 Wow. The technology has certainly moved on a lot from when I used to Windsurf back in the 80's + 90's with just one humble fin + watching out for the occasional anchor chain from moored boats. Also do you know how may knots you were going on that day or what your fastest speed has ever been. You mention 35 knot wind. Do you still use speed propellers on the fins ?
@@alexcave7573 we're now using Doppler GPS technology to log our speeds, in the video you can see them stuck to our shoulders. That day we were doing between 39 and 41kts. The fastest I have gone so far is 42.5kts at Primbee. Others have done up to 44kts at Primbee.
@@detlevmueller2080 Wow. You did 42 knots !! That is so quick. Most of the rib rescue boats do not even go that fast, so you could potentially speed past them if they were out at the same time rescuing someone at sea. In fact 42 knots is more akin to power boat speeds and to think that you were doing this under sail power!
Wow great VID.
Cheers!
Nice spot although murky water! I like the old fashion transitions, kinky touch.
Was a bit extra brown because the strong westerly winds brought brown soil from the outback.
great video. thanks. in fact the best i've ever seen of speed windsurfing.
Team33 cool!
@@windsurfer Is there a tide in that lake like some of the spots in Holland.
I'm asking because its only a foot or so deep in places!
@@team3383 Yeah there is a tide but it doesn't go up or down that much I think?
Great vid and with The Cure what else 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Sick video ! (again) Incredible how the spot remains ~flat with such a big water space upwind, it has to do with the shallow water I guess.
Ya it's the shallow water.
You're a pretty posh Dutchy, when you fly from Amsterdam to Primbee Lake, just for TWO days windsurfing. Van Bellen? Sounds like Van Halen. Great video!
I live in Australia mate
That is awesome! 2 feet deep? Shallow fin? Fast and furious!!!!! Like the Cure also.
1 foot deep!
So flat ! So speed ! So GOOOD ✌🤩🤙
Speed is fun!
Really great stuff Paul!
Cheers!
Best speed windsurfing.
🙌
Impressive! certainly motivating to start again!
Wow nice day ! When we have wind like this on S.F.bay in this direction the chop is still 2- 4 feet high your water is so flat in comparison .
Yeah Terry it’s the very shallow water that keeps it flat!
If you look on Google earth I go in San Pablo bay waist deep & I stay to the left up high but the fetch makes the waves build up fast great for jumping but not for speed like what your doing there! I noticed you stay in the middle of the lake if you get close do the trees act as a wind block? We all launch from Bullhead flats.and stay high if you don't you might spend the night in the bay or have to be rescued !
@@sqeakgeek Ah I see! I had a look on the map... looks like a great stretch of water to sail! if you go close to the trees at Prime the water is too shallow.
Paul van Bellen Well hey man if U find your self in the Bay Area look me up here & I will take U there kind of a secret spot only good on a northwest wind Also much less likely bumping into a white shark I am up in Sonoma county now & go to Bodega Bay where running into a large shark more possible BUT so is getting stung be a bee? However you won't lose a limb to a bee!😂👀😱
@@sqeakgeek That's very kind Terry! You're selling sailing in SF very well! haha
Thanks for this Paul. Amazing. Hard to believe it's real. I love the 80s TV-screen wipe at 3:18. That's how you edit with style!
Hey thanks!
Now that's some sweet action!
Excellent soundtrack too
Yeah I like that song too cheers David.
Amazing! and great music choice as usual!
Andie deRoux Thanks again!
Beautiful
Cheers!
GREAT FEELING WITH P4! GOOD JOB MAN
valerio com thank you mate!
Great great video! Reminds me of some of the old videos from NeilPryde.
Ha yeah was trying to get some of those vibes Prybarczyk 👍
@@windsurfer
You nailed it! "Screaming Waters" and those NeilPryde vids were the best.
Hope you make more. Thanks. :-)
prybarczyk thanks heaps mate those Neil Pryde videos were my childhood! 😍
great video and music!
Ca c'est du Speed!!! Et ça fait kiffer !!!
Content que tu aies aimé mon pote!
Another awesome video! You fly so close and low to the action, amazing skills. I'm surprised how well the Phantom 4 is working for you in that much wind. I think My Phantom 3 would be drifting down wind quickly.
Yeah it surprises me too!
Nice work again Paul :)
Darren N cheers!
Awesome!!
Tintin thanks!
marvelous !
Κωνσταντινος Παπαμιχελακης cheers mate
Inspirational!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love the contemplative quality to your videos and so 3 else would have used the cure as a soundtrack👌
Olivier Magere thanks mate!
awesome footage! Cant wait for summer brouwersdam! :D
GothicSocietyClan cool!
Buenísimo, saludos desde Argentina.
Salud!
awesome.
sjcavill 🤙
Amazing video, thanks! Really enjoyed watching it. By the way, i can see that the water is very shallow there. Which fins you were using?
Raccoonov glad you enjoyed it. I was using a UFO 18cm 50 degree weed speed fin. Mark was using a Delta XT 16cm fin. These let us get into the shallow flat water on the speed boards. On slalom boards we are using 22-26cm fins.
Hello from France ! I used to practice windsurf and I was wondering how the water could be si flat with the wind speed required to ride that fast ... Until I saw how shallow the water was!
just great!!!!
SUPER !!!
Glad you liked it mate
No pollution, no noise, maximum speed
Apart from the making of the gear and the car needed to get to the lake, it's pretty pollution free! ha ha
@@windsurfer you still can go to the lake in a EV car charged with green energy ;)
Philippe Venet we could go on 😂👍
Cool⤴️
koichi7716 👍
Bravo!
Paul, cada vez que veo este video me pregunto, como hacen para navegar con tan poca agua... Saludos!
Sí, han barrido hacia atrás las aletas y conocen muy bien el área!
Way cooler that kite boarding. Used to windsurf til i hurt my back. not at that level but was pretty good.
pigskin1000 Why is it always wind surfers trying to shit on kiteboarding? Why can’t they both be cool sports?
@@pinkyless they are both cool but one must be slightly cooler than the other right?? ha ha
Чудове відео, просто супер швидкість, дякую Паул. Я початківець в віндсерфінгу. Але мрію, що через деякий час теж буду так літати! З повагою, з України!
Ого, спасибо за ваш комментарий! Я надеюсь, что вы в безопасности в Украине!
Wow - nice video and great perspective :-)
Arctic Windsurfer glad you enjoyed it! 🤙
Great video!!
Cheers!
Really nice!!!
Thanks!
get some more of those Aerial shorts at a distance they look Amazing!
Great place. People are walking in the middle of the lake
insane spot
It's fun!
Insane footage. Can imagine you've edited all night, I would have done the same. By the way, not sure if I would dare to use my drone in 35 knots. Good to know it's possible!
Ha cheers mate yeah I love getting good footage!
Simple but nice footage
gabor parlagh 👍
"There were heaps of shots I couldn't use because the gimbal was going haywire in the wind." I would've imagined, you were going pretty fast, the wind must be pretty strong.
Was gusting up to 35-40 knots that day.
Pretty cool 😃👍
Cheers!
Good !!
Cheers Alby!
BRAVO
Thanks Cesar!
Great skills, I didn't know drones could keep up with speed boards. Tell me, how can a big lake be so flat in speed board conditions, is it very shallow?
mark051262 thanks mate. The lake is shallow where they are sailing it’s like 20-40cm deep which means chop doesn’t build up like in deeper water. Also there is some weed under the water too which also helps break down chop energy resulting in flat water in strong winds!
@@windsurfer Sounds like heaven. I thought I was lucky living around the corner from West Kirby lake, UK, But Primbee looks epic :)
I like watching the vids from West Kirby : )
Best windsurfing videography I've seen. Greetings from the Columbia River Gorge, Washington Sir; may I ask what gear you are using? drone+cam+FPV goggles? The stability is amazing considering the apparent wind I see...
Thanks mate! It's a DJI phantom 4. I'm not using goggles, just my iPhone + controller.
I can not understand...how deep is the water? What fins do you use? However, as usual, wonderful!
It's like 20-40cm deep in the sailing area. It's deeper upwind but choppier. They use swept back speed weed fins.
good music
Yeah I like that song too.
Great vid - no prangs this time! 😀
Chris Wright surprisingly no sail hits ha!
subbed.....sick footage... soo sick
QuintDaSharkHunter thanks!!!
I get laughed at when I tell people windsurfing is the best sport. I need to show them this video.
Tell me about it!!! It's taken 38 years of windsurfing to get decent footage of me to show my mates. I show them and they go "Nah, that's sped up!!!". I give up :(
ha ha
Impresionante
Gracias amigo!