July 29, 2011

Hawaii

2 days to go before the Molokai2Oahu race…
Today is my last day of training, I’ve spent all week with Ekolu Kalama and his family, they taught precious things about paddling technique, paddling culture and hawaiian culture, we’ve been doing SUP, Outtrigger canoe and surf.
Conditions here are similar to what we can find in some places [...]

July 15, 2011

Molokai2Oahu 2011

16 days before the race… Everything seems to be ready… Soon I will be flying to Hawaii for the 2nd time of the year (1rst time was for the Battle of Paddle in Oahu) to take part in the legendary race : The Molokai to Oahu , a 32 miles open ocean crossing from Molokai [...]

July 14, 2011

press

July 12, 2011

Vote for the SUP Man of the year 2011 on SUP Connect

Vote for me or for others, you decide who’s the SUP Connect SUP man of the year !
http://supconnect.mylocallineup.com/SUP-Men/

July 7, 2011

New SUP Nidecker 14′ in action !

July 2, 2011

New Kialoa Toro Paddle

Thanks to the “W Bros”, sunshort.com and Kialoa I am one of the lucky owners of the new Kialoa Toro , the new race paddle from Kialoa.
I am using Kialoa paddles since 2009 and I just love them, thinking about a new model was very exciting but I was afraid that it would just feel [...]

18 years ago…

I found a video of my brother and I 18 years ago Bodyboarding at the Reunion Island (I was 11yo he was 13…)…
no time to upload the video, but here’s a couple of screen captures…

Funny thing is that I can remember some waves as if it was yesterday, like this one for exemple …

Golden Island Race

Just back from the Golden Island Race in South East France, the main race was a 4 stars EuroSUPA Long Distance Race and there was aslo 4km amateur races, slalom races (6 men heats BOP style race on very short course) and there was a Nautical mille record to attempt.
I’ve started saturday morning with the [...]

Naish tour Bordeaux

Fun event on the Garonne, on the 10k race I took a good start next to Gaetan Séné until I manage to break away and take a little advantage… All of a sudden I realised that he was on the left hand side of the river, flying with the current and I was… stuck in [...]

King of the Island, Italy

I went to Italy for the first time (except the one time I had to go to Milan Airport to fly to Marocco) and discovered a beautiful country.
The King of the Island race took part in Bergeggi, near Genova, I already knew a few riders (the Italian Champions Fabrizio Gasbarro and Leonard Nika, the “Adrenalina [...]