Water Work

Water ~ Scuba

NAUI/PADI

• Wetsuits
• Buoyancy Compensator Devices
• Tanks
• Dive Computers
• Regulators
• Gauges

As a diver you are weightless and can move in all directions. You approach the freedom of a bird as you move in three dimensions in a fluid environment.”

~Dennis Graver

Experienced Scuba Instructor.

Colin has been playing and working under the water for many years. Whether your looking for a coordinator to assist in planning action with safety, A player with a extensive background, or a professional instructor to train your cast… Colin can help.

What is NAUI/PADI Scuba?

National Association of Underwater Instructors is what scuba NAUI means. PADI is the acronym for the Professional Association of Diving Instructors. Located all over the world, these agencies offer their own process of certification and training for individuals.

The non profit organization for scuba, NAUI has classes that are longer than average and much more difficult than most scuba classes. It is believed by the proponents that people who get certified from this class, have much stronger skills needed for scuba diving. This may be due to the fact that they study more information for longer periods of time.

The organization that does its business for a profit is called PADI. This organization offers much shorter classes then NAUI and the tests are also less difficult to pass. Do not confuse this as making there classes and certification inadequate. PADI is known as the largest certification programs for scuba divers all over the world. They offer more of a variety of classes in different prices ranges for everyone, making it much easier for people to get certified in scuba diving.

Water ~ Surfing

Proficient at:

• Cutback:
• Floater:
• Top-Turn:
• Air / Aerial:
• Hanging Ten/five

Surfing expresses … a pure yearning for visceral, physical contact with the natural world.

~Matt Warshaw

The tube ride is the ultimate surfing maneuver

Growing up with Jaws and Pipeline in his backyard,,, Colin has been playing and working on the water most his life and can deliver convincing water action on your production.

Surfing Breakdown

Surfing is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore.

Surfing can be broken into several skills: drop in positioning to catch the wave, the pop-up, and positioning on the wave. Paddling out requires strength but also the mastery of techniques to break through oncoming waves (duck diving, eskimo roll). Drop in positioning requires experience at predicting the wave set and where they will break. The surfer must pop up quickly as soon as the wave starts pushing the board forward. Preferred positioning on the wave is determined by experience at reading wave features including where the wave is breaking.

Water ~ Wind Surfing

Proficient At:

• Formula Windsurfing
• Raceboard
• Slalom
• Super X
• Speed Racing
• Freestyle
• Wavesailing

Windsurfing is king and we are its tiny pawns.

~Bob Rowland

Exciting Sport With Deep Roots In Island Culture

Windsurfing as a sport didn’t develop until very recently, as far as sports go. The Polynesians had an early version of it, which they had developed for voyages that were too long to make simply by surf board. In this incarnation, it was more of a means of transportation than recreation. Surfing in general for the Polynesians was part recreation, part religious experience, and part of daily life. When the Europeans sent missionaries to ‘civilize’ the Polynesians, the religious significance of surfing turned it into a priority for the missionaries to stamp out. Thankfully for us today, they failed to get the Polynesians to give up surfing, and eventually the practice spread to Australia and California.

How Does WindSurfing Work?

Windsurfing or sailboarding is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually two to four meters long, powered by the orthogonal effect of the wind on a sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating universal joint and comprises a mast, wishbone boom and sail.

Windsurfing can be said to straddle both the laid-back culture of surf sports and the more rules-based environment of sailing. Although it might be considered a minimalistic version of a sailboat, a windsurfer offers experiences that are outside the scope of any other sailing craft design. Windsurfers can perform jumps, inverted loops, spinning maneuvers, and other “freestyle” moves that cannot be matched by any sailboat. Windsurfers were the first to ride the world’s largest waves, such as Jaws on the island of Maui, and, with very few exceptions, it was not until the advent of tow-in surfing that waves of that size became accessible to surfers on more traditional surfboards. Extreme waves aside, many expert windsurfers will ride the same waves as wave surfers do and are themselves usually very accomplished without a rig on a conventional surfboard.