Mini Mal Windsurfing Board and Windsurfer LT - Patrice Belbeoch/ Exocet Boards
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Part 2 of the chat with Patrice Belbeoch from Exocet at the Defi Wind 2024.
We look at the Mini Mal Windsurfing Board and Windsurfer LT
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Windsurfer LT has been fantastic for the sport!
While many are sceptical, they tend to reconsider after giving it a good run:)
This long wave board is genius 👏 and I think it will be just pure fun to sail, maybe even more fun than short boards in strong wind
Not as radical, though:) Deffinately fun.
Merci Patrice de ramener la Windsurfer, cette planche nous permettait à l'époque d'aller sur l'eau qu'importe la force du vent, enfin le plaisir de naviguer sans se questionner, bravo. I'm giving a chance to practice your french Ben! Cheers.
I tried a Windsurfer LT in Bonaire this spring (Jibe City), it was a beautiful ride. The beach/board boys had very positive comments when I pulled it out saying things like it was a comfortable, laid back cruiser, ie, they don’t want to always feel like they’re driving a jittery sports car, it’s also nice to fly down a highway in a big, comfy sedan.
Patrice Belbeoch seems brilliant. Love it
Best video, best explanations. Had the Windstyler. Bought the Windsup in 10, now the LT. ❤thx for bringing windsurfing back to life!
Such creative ideas, it makes you re-think what you want to do on a board. Fascinating stuff!
I had the Kona Mini-Tanker, which was a singal fin version of this. It was really fun in light wind and small waves and when I sold it I regretted it immediately. The original was heavier and a little narrower, but it was still fun in the right conditions.
Really great to see interesting new ideas for longer boards.
I was going to give up windsurfing, too much kit, too many options, too many things to achieve (footstraps, waterstart etc). Now I have the LT I’ve sold everything else and absolutely love it. Just perfect sailing!
I've got windsup 11 8 for sailing at my local beach where its normally offshore wind with gusty shifty wind until you're 300m off the beach and with 7.5m its great fun. I've sailed the old Kona 10 5 in gusty onshore and great to easily get out the back and turns well
I agree about the fun to ride big old style boards in breeze but I think recent sails are much better.
Long wave board looks cool
That breeze seems fantastic for guys who live by the ocean for when the wind is off. Unfortunately not me🙈
It would work as a freeride platfrom as well, but there are better (and, honestly, cheaper) solutions for that. But, a gnarly sea side break might be worth exploring. That's the whole idea - on a mediocre day (low wind, heavy break, gusty wind, strong current), Breeze can salvage it.
Kona offered a selection of different windsurf longboards about 15 years ago. I then had this exact mini-mal shape labeled as Kona Boards. A lot of fun in absolute lightwinds with small sails! Cool to see someone is still trying to offer these kind of „experimental“ niche boards. Unfortunately, mine broke one day in half trying to go out in too big waves and being washed properly.
Enjoyed that! That wave board is super cool. Even in the best places for wind, one still gets poor wind days and that would double your water time I reckon.
I would love to have that board in my quiver!
Luckily I have the Kona 11'5 which got me back into windsurfing and then I graduated to the 9'5 which is my goto marginal board. Fab news that they have introduced the Breeze line as my 9'5 is really beat up now and I am looking for a replacement. Great thing is that they all go upwind in non planing conditions and will catch any wave or swell going, fast too and so they are great boards to hoon around on. I'm out in the same wind strength as the wingers, though I'm surfing the waves and they are surfing the swell. So glad they have now introduced the V to make things even more easy going.
Are we going to see that light wind wave board at Cloudbreak this year? 😂
If a brave hero would step out, definitely:)
The longboard reminds me on the 2,80 longboard by f2 y’all remember promoted by brain the ire man Talma. Love so see it come back… this style never made it to be a standart but I like to c it’s still a thing
Would love to try one !
Not in the vid but Exocet has a great raceboard too 🤙😁
Exocet needs a dealer in Canada! 11'8 windsup is my most used board by far but had to import it. Curious on the breeze series and RSD2 raceboard (not sure if they still make it?) as well!
Would be curious on riding the Breeze series strapless as well. Love the 11'8 windsup in small waves, but always wanted a scaled down version for a little more control on steeper waves, but still ride longboard style stepping/trimming the board.
Love this!
great idea. Kona has a similar design for a long long board...with a daggerboard.
Awesome board 😍🤙
Mini Mal sailboards were around in Sydney in the early 1990’s.
I was about to start kite surfing a few years ago…
145L wave board - wow!
Moin Ben! 2 videos per day?! It must be Sunday?!
great video Ben. i started in79 in rio on a windsurfer. i want to import one but the dollar rates in brazil is really high. i have to sell a kidney to get one 😀
Heaps cool!
So Patrice might go 40kts on the mini mal if he goes 35 on the windsup? 😮
He is modest but can still shred:)
Ben knows exocet invented the Kona right?
based on some of the comments in here it seems like too many people don't know that Exocet invented the Kona, pity they don't always get the credit they deserve... but exciting to see the Breeze getting some hype!
Ben, like the trop board shape sam years ago... just longer
I didn't really appreciate it, when Ben made it seem like light wind and waves are rare "certain/specific conditions". Most ocean wave sailing is in light wind with mushy small waves. Very little is like Portugal when it's firing. So the Breeze is for most waveriders, most of the time.
I said ‘it’s a specific board for light wind wave riding’ …it is
Portugal firing? For 9 months of the year it’s mostly wobble and ride sailing. Very gusty.. not many people enjoy it. To get the most out of it you need to be pretty good at wobble and ride or have a ‘specific’ board like this maybe.
It would be great if they allowed you to test some of those out if the norm board, as an example the windsup, otherwise imposible to find tests on that kind of boards
@@mesopelagicecologychannel211 We can think of something if Ben is up to the challenge:)
I just want to add, it's not a theoretical or even new design. I have an x-wave longboard 11'5" and it really can bottom turn well, even in onshore conditions. The recent video of the LT at Corros had conditions with far more wind than these boards need, but the LT really didn't turn well at all. These wave longboards are just the ticket, with more rocker, thin rails, and narrower shape. We get so many light wind small wave days in Florida, I'd probably quit windsurfing if these things didn't exist.
@@mesopelagicecologychannel211 Valid point. We are discussing it internally as well.