Another gem from Paul van Bellens’ video collection: “Terminators having fun” was released by F2 in the mid-nineties to promote its own range of boards. During the photoshoot on Maui, the team riders grab the latest Axxis, Xantos, Sputniks and the like, and blast back and forth along Maui’s North Shore on them. The shaper duo Peter Thommen and Werner Gnigler then explain the characteristics of these long, narrow ‘toothpicks’.
Particularly touching is the scene where newcomer Josh Stone, looking rather at a loss, tries to rig a slalom sail but gets stuck on the camber rings (“I don’t know what those plastic bits are, but I suppose they’re meant to stay on the mast”).
And, of course, a thrilling crash section is a must to round things off. It’s just that the high-energy synth music is more suited to on-hold music or lifts than to a windsurfing video.
More Windsurf Classics:
- “RIP” by Robby Naish
- “The Windsurfing Movie” and “The Windsurfing Movie II”
- “The New Style” – the funboard video from surf
- “The Aloha Man” starring Josh Stone
- “The Transatlantic Windsurf Race” from 1998
- The film about the 1996 North King of the Lake
- World Windsurfing Un-Cut – the film about the 1997 PWA season
- Epic manoeuvres and painful crashes at the first windsurfing park
Tobias Frauen
Editor
