AGIOS ILIAS ROUND UP

I was waiting for some fotos to make this post but exept that
i got them last night there was also some busy days windsurfing and more.
so as i wrote to  twitter there was a big forecast for west coast more known
reef  ag.ilias .
i went for a 2 day trip with my friends alexis, giannis and lazaros but ended up
meeting almost everyone down there ,it must be aroun 30 -35 sails in the water
the second day , which is not so strange but if you consider that previous on this spot
there were tops 10-15 sailors it is big .
the most optimistic thing was that the level was going nuts, so even we were almost
double than usual there was nice cutbacks and turns and jumps every moment you
turned your eyes on the water .
having said that i start with some pics as they make it for a thousand words

1st day was not so  good, in terms of wind direction wave direction and wave
height,  IF  you live in hookipa or so  but for greece was typical .

backloop on my 4.8













and a small top turn













to finish the late afternoon session

2nd day was EPIC , i think it was one of the top 3-4 days i have ever sailed there .
waves everywhere good wind and direction and above all, warm ,13-15 celcious.
i generally don't have too much problem with low temperatures but this
winter is preety hard on us with temp around 10 or less degrees so this 2-3
days of south warm wind was even more apreciated .
back to the pics
these were taken from fotis papadopoulos
who unfortunately couldn't hit the water

dimitris papanaklis is a very experieced wave sailor and
can show that

vagelis divis aka 'jazzmenos' is getting really good on the waves
adopting a more kauli set up with at least 0.5m2 less sail size than others

no words for mr ZAKEL

i wanted to do the same but as you will see on the vid
didn't actually managed to ...

s pro making it vertical

nikos katsoulas was going ridicusly high on his jumps
but also check the vid below for the crashes

spot's hot local giannhs enjoying his flilka boards

i also want ti thank him for the hospitality once more,
he turned his house in a hotel for one night . thnx man


now the video ,actually videos as today there is also one only with
wipes
first the action


AGIOS ILIAS 2012 from fotios papadopoulos on Vimeo.

now the wipes


agios ilias wipeout from fotios papadopoulos on Vimeo.


i think this is my longest post ,but i have more to write
after this 2 days we got back to athens and scored one day
in varkiza which was magic .
one of varkiza's resident and almost 50 years old said that
he has seen it like this 3 times .
it was perfect, waves and sideshore wind in our home spot
my buddy 's comment was homespot delivers.
it is like these days that you hear about that once happened
and i say to you i feel very lucky having lived that.
unfortunately no fotos of  that day
 maybe someone was filming or taking any pictures , if so
please post it somewhere so we can remember this day .

wave mode is how i could describe last 10 days ,after that sessions
we also had another south wind forecast which provided good waves .
not a good period to have left over with no wave board ....
for this i have to thnx my friend giannhs who let me borrow his
quatro 76 KT .
i managed to do somethimg about this but this will be my next post
 oh i also had a cold freestlyle session after all this and was superb
i sailed almost 1,5 hour and did almost all my tricks .
that is what happens when you ' clear your mind 'a bit
as one of the biggest freestyle sailors has said to my friend alex tetsis .