EXPOSURE

RIDER Christophe Defrance

LOCATION Port Camargue, France

PHOTOGRAPHER Fred Rimondi

Christophe: This session was insane! This day, I was enjoying cruising but it was good conditions so I decided to push the limit with the speeds and I managed to reach over 42 knots (around 78 km/h). I was riding a 4'1 Pro Carbon Biax, a wing of 700 cm² and a G10 stabilizer. This is just the beginning though, because I feel like I can go even faster…

RIDER Nikolas Plytas

LOCATION Varkiza, Greece

PHOTOGRAPHER Alex Grymanis

Nikolas: We had a fun session in Varkiza, Greece, despite the small unsurfable waves. We mainly focused on kick-out jumps, which were super fun. I see it as similar to snowboarding kickers, and I love it when I'm high enough to tweak it and enjoy the airtime. Alex was there with the water housing to capture the moment. It was a bit of a challenge to coordinate the wave with Alex’s position, so there were many attempts to get this shot right.

RIDER Dylan Wichmann

LOCATION Cape Town

PHOTOGRAPHER Samuel Tomé

Dylan: The past December in Cape Town was the windiest I have experienced since I started winging, my first ever wind sport. We were having five to six days of the week hitting 30 knots plus, and I quickly realized that in such strong winds, freestyle tricks make for some hectic wipeouts and slapping the water and crazy speeds. So I've been focusing a bit more on 'Big Air' rather than freestyle this past summer. Growing up as a surfer I never had the ability to ride switch like lots of the younger riders and those that came to winging with previous experience in other wind sports. It is much harder for me to hit the kickers on my heelside and I don’t see many other guys doing toeside Big Airs. I reached my milestone of 10m+ in this session and now it’s time to get up there with the heelside guys.