Last Day of Summer

It was the last day off summer on Saturday, and I was thinking that if you live on the east coast and like wind and waves at the same time, this summer's been a little under par. The forecast for the day was a bit dogey, there were a few storms around, and a bit of rain.

Then the skys cleared, the water was warm, there was clean, good sized surf and enough steady wind. Summer 08/09, all is forgiven!

Here's a short clip of the session to see if I can share the feeling...

Hi to Phil who was around that day as well

really enjoyed that video thanks Nerk, fingers crossed for autumn

nice legs

Nice work nerk,you are wasted in your current profession .A job in watersports video production beckons
Where wer you?

wow awsum vid mate!!

you clips are getting better all the time wont be long and you will have one on your head that would make 3 camera angles,top arvo nice waves nice wind and no one else around for miles might be on again today but from the south
phil (rfw1)

Awesome editing. How do you get the camera rotation - is that some post-processing software or does the camera figure it out on the fly? I haven't seen that before.

Thanks everyone...

That's at Redhead. Just a good tide/swell size combination to have the outer banks working but not closing out. Wind coming over the headland a bit but suprisingly steady. Phil seemed to be sailing a couple of feet downwind of the headland somehow.


Post-processing required. I use VirtualDub and Deshaker from sourceforge.net, but there are commercial alternatives. It does most of the work, but there is tweaking required. The kitecam stuff is unwatchable without it. The board mounted camera seems to look better with a bit of stabilisation so that the board moves up and down with the chop, not the kiter.



Working on a camera mounting system to look down on the back of the board, but it's been too uncomfortatble so far!

fantastic stuff.

Really enjoyed watching your vid Nerk, thank you for sharing!!
Strapless riding rocks