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A1 Surfsessions

  • 4. September 2019

In Spring we were shooting for a TV Show: The A1 Surfsessions. Host Phillip Mück (The Wild Routine) discovers the Windsurfing/Surfing Szene in Austria. After meeting Marco Lang at Surfworldcup Neusiedl, enjoying some Waves at Multiplex Citywave Vienna he visited me at home. Straight after breakfast we went for an urban Windsurfing session in Vienna…

Check it here: https://www.a1now.tv/de-int/playerpage/71875

Spring Season in Austria

  • 5. August 2019

An awesome Springseason here in Austria comes to an end, I guess this was one of the best years I can remember. Podersdorf and the Bridge were delivering! You name it, we had it. 3.6 full power for days? YES! 4.4 perfect freestyle conditions and warm water?! Yes, 5.2 lonely Foiling yes!!!
One of my personal highlights: winning the Austrian Champonships again. So I can call myself at least for one more year Austrian Freestyle Champion #twoinarow. check my short insta360 edit below…

Changes: Boardwise, we started quite early with developing the Freestyle Board further. After Capetown (and almost 3 seasons without changes) I had some ideas and wishes to make the Freestyle compact better. I was testing a few boards and was really conviced that I need more control but wanna keep the Skateboardfeeling – as some of the productionboards were quite boring. We introduced a wider square nose and more parallel rails. Further more we changed the length fromn 207 to 211 to get a bit more control in gnarly conditions into the board, to achieve that also the bottom got a slightly work over. Well, it works pretty good. After testing some days and changing boards run per run, tuning the setup I am convinced that this is my weapon of choice.

Foil: Yes I am going Foiling a lot lately, as it increases my Windsurfdays on Lake Neusiedl to almost 100% if I am keen. As many of you keep asking me through instagram. The biggest sail I use is the Duotone Idol 5.2 My Board is a custom Flikka Foil Board with a length of 204 and 74 wide and has 105l. I would describe it as a easy freeride board, perfect for learning. I made some fast progress on and can really recommend you a pure foilboard. If I feel ready for more advanced freestyle (I already do 360, Duckjibes, Jumps, riding fullspeed back….) I think I gonna change to something different, a bit more agile – but for now this board is perfect for me.
I use a Fanatic Foil with the „smaller“ 900 Frontwing. This is enough for me to fly when there is almost no wind (15m kites not working on a waveboard). I found out with my weight this has more control than a bigger frontwing.

Future Plans:
I gonna travel to Mauritius soon, will try to boost my level one more. Let’s see. Beside that I will put a lot of effort in my Media Project „Visionstorm“. I also realized my first TV Show for A1 now this spring which includes also some portrait of me – will let you know as soon it’s watchable!

Max

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Surfgames 2019

  • 4. Juni 201914. Juni 2019

After probably the best Springseason we ever had in Austria - the Austrian Freestyle Championships took place in Podersdorf during the Surfgames in the End of May. Unfortunatly there was just one very windy day (4.4 powered up) were we could Windsurf - so the format was a Super-Session. I could win in front of Chris Sammer with some solid Powermoves. Afterwards we run some Towin the whole weekend - but counted the contest already after just a few runs...so I had not such good moves counting (after many years without towin) and got 2nd. But with all those trainingsrun it would look totally different on the last day, as I landed Airfunnel Funnels and pushed for double Airfunnels... Anyways I had a super nice time with all the boys and can't wait to sail with them again soon. I got some proper Coverage in Austrian biggest newspaper (Kronenzeitung) and AustrianTV aswell. As it is still windy every week I will continue to chase the storms here and go a bit foiling between! Thanks for your support and see you soon.

Max

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Insta360 One X – next Level Action Camera?

  • 16. April 20195. August 2019

After quite some years of using Action Cameras to shoot some on board Windsurfing Action, last autumn Insta360 approached me to test their new OneX in Watersports. It’s a 360 Degree Video camera, which captures action in 5.7k and has some quite cool features. To demonstrate what is possible I made some short clips to show you the possibility of shooting a 360Video and editing it in classic style, because that also means you can shoot the action first and point the camera later.

FlowState Stablization – a Game Changer

My favourite feature about the Insta360 One is the so called „FlowState“ Stabilization. It gives you an electronical Videostabilization which comes very close to a gimbal. If you put the InstaOne the Selfie-Stick it even makes it invasible. It’s exactly the thing I did in the following shot:I was walking to the spot and while carying my board I had also the Selfie Stick in my hand. It’s smooth and stable and you can not see the stick! I am impressed!

Shooting Windsurf Action with the Insta360 One X

When it comes to capturing watersport action you have whole new possibilities with adjusting the angle and point of view after capturing it. For me with classic actioncameras it was always a problem that I got out of frame during a movement. This will simple never happen again. On the left you see the Video framed 180 Degrees but with no adjustment in the angle during the movement – a classic action camera view. On the right I adjusted the angle in different ways – as the Insta360 one shoots in 5.7K you are able to zoom in quite a bit to have a closer shot or zoom out to have a wideangle shot.

Which Housing?

As you can see the cool thing about is that you can really move the camera around. FlowState is also working really great while Windsurfing those hardcore chop on the brandvlei lake. The only small problem right now is, that you need a housing to make the Insta360 OneX waterproof. I first used the „Diving Case“ but found out it is not perfect for watersports as it is too open on the bottom – this is exactly what you can see in my video on the Skopu:

So I was talking back to Insta360 and they told me that I just need the cheaper „Venture Case“ – which is designed for watersport (OK my fault, I ordered the wrong one). On a new trip to Croatia I used the Venture Case and finally got some really pleasing results. With the Venture Case the Insta360 worked like a charm. As you can see on the following three Videos: Flaka with adjusted superwide view, Spock with adjusted view and rotating with the rotation (great possibilities in Waves I think!), and last but not least another cool Feature, the little Planet on a Funnel.

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different Views

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Selfie?! Yes, but with Bullet Time Shot

Sometimes it’s cool to take a selfie. Put it on the selfie stick and adjust the frame later, ok we now already that you can do that with the Insta360 one. With the camera the company delivers a rope which connects to the camera. If you swing the OneX around you – you get a Bullet Time Shot. Check the Video.

 

For me the best thing about it is, with the Insta360 App I can download these kind of shots directly to my mobilephone via Wifi and push it straight into my instagram stories. My plan is to really experiment with this feature through out the whole year and make a best of with some nice sunsets and sunsrises all over the world.

But how to edit the Videos? If you are on the go, you can do this on your mobilephone, the sample Videos from above are edited with Adobe Premiere and the Insta360 Plugins, but there is also a own Editing Suite from Insta360 (Insta360 Studio 2019) which is for free and works pretty amazing.

What’s next?!

My first tests in Capetown were not perfect – yes, but really promising. With the Venture Housing everything changed, altough I just hunted a few gusts with it in Punat (Krk, Croatia), it made me hooked. For those Windsurfers which are just cruising around, and don’t really jump – this camera is really the next step! You will get much better and more interesting footage! For Freestylers and Wavesailors – hell yeah – endless possibilities! You are changing the side and going out of the screen on your Actioncamera? On the Insta360 you can flip just turn the angle to the right point

In total for me the whole technology is the future: the stabilisation is amazing and with the shoot first, point later philosophy I will always have the right angle! The invisible selfiestick is also a big plus for a lot of sports or vlogging. What I really wanna try is the so called Drift Shot – you put the camera into something like an arrow and throw it, it captured shots like a drone in environments, where a drone is simple not possible to fly. I can not wait to test this little camera more!

P.S.: If you are into Wintersports – there is a instagram story/comercial I shot for JBL last Winter, and parts of it are with the Insta360 OneX – find it here

 

Capetown 2019

  • 25. März 201917. April 2019

After working my ass of on different projects and my mission to finish my university degree, I decided that I needed a creative break. I checked the usual spots around and gave Capetown 2nd chance. With a very nice crew we hit the plane to South Africa and with us the wind arrived after a bad season (I heard). The beginnig was crazy, I sailed almost everyday on my 3.6 for Freestyle and when we hit the waves (if there were some) in the afternoon often 3,7 was the choice. After Mauritius the South African Waves were quite difficult and very sketchy to ride for me. Anyways I was pushing my level as hard as I could and tried to inhale all those vibes. In the 2nd part of the trip the South-East wind got less and less, so I got some time on the SUP surfing some small (and sometimes smaller) waves - great fun. Anyways we (Marco Lufen and me) did a some videoshooting at an inland lake called Brandvlei, I guess there will be a very short edit soon. Somehow we missed quite the best sessions for filming....BUT this trip was about surfing not filming - there is some big project coming up - I will tell you more soonish...

 

Yours Max

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Win a Roadtrip

  • 10. März 2019

My Partner Chiemsee raffles a Roadtrip with their famous #Vanlife VW T6. Best thing, you not only win the Van for two weeks, you and your travelbuddy will get enough Chiemsee Clothes for the trip – sounds like a Surfers dream to me. Wanna take part? Check this link: https://www.chiemsee.com/vanlife/

Spotguide Rhodes

  • 1. März 201910. März 2019

In the newest issue of the Surf-Magazin is the last part of Andre’s and my Travelstory to Greece. Some magazines ago we had 8 pages with Kos, this time it’s the story of Rhodes. Rhodes is a very special island to me, as my windsurfroots start there. Feel Free to read the article online or printed and let me know how you like it! As all this stories would not be possible with the support of some amazing people, I would like to thank Chris Sammer (Duotone), Chiemsee, Surf & Action, Surfshop Upsidedown for supporting our Greecetrip.

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Almost a Cover

  • 20. Dezember 201810. März 2019

In the first Issue of 2019 in the Surf-Magazin, one of my shots was printed on the „inside“ Cover, the first Page inside the Magazin. Not a Cover but pretty cool. The Photo was taken by Max Matissek in Mauritius last summer.

 

New Video from Max Brinnich

New Video

  • 5. Dezember 2018

Time to make it official: SEEN 8, my new Video is here. This time you can find some crazy action from Vienna’s Citywindsurf Spot: „The Bridge“. But then…What is going on?! I crash straight into the 80s?! But hey Windsurfing was still there, the cars were sick aswell, the closes and sunglasses had a different style, but they had style, and the Windsurfequipment? Yes, different – but unexpected very good rideable and good fun. To say the truth riding the old Sunset Slalom with the more than 30year old North Sails was one of my best Crusing and Freeridedays I ve ever had – so much fun! But now go and check the Video.

Ah yes, and the Video takes part in the Windsurfers.de Video Competition. Check it out.

Autumn in Austria 2018

  • 25. November 20182. Dezember 2018

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Wow. That has been the best Autumn in Austria, since I ve been Windsurfing! The bridge was going of, a lot of perfect south-east wind days, really awesome conditions I could share with some of my best friends. I think after travelling so much the last 1,5 years coming home and sail almost every single day at the spots where you grew up, is just as good as it gets! When the South Wind kicked in September me and my buddy Jo started working on a proper Windsurf Action Clip straight out of Vienna. It will take part in the Panasonic Windsurf Video Competion hosted by Windsurfers.de, it will be online pretty soon!

Beside ripping up the Danube we got some storm days on Lake Neusiedl aswell. Hell yeah, nothing beats the feeling of being totally overpowered in some pure flying water gusts, two days stayed in my mind: First we experienced a massive NW day in Podersdorf. Flying water everywhere, measured windgusts up to 120km/h, me totally stacked on my Idol LTD 3.6 and my small Flikka FS Board. WHAT AN AWESOME DAY! A few days with SE directly followed the big storm, and guess what it got even better.

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THE DAY of the Year!

If you were following my stories on social media or here, this year Neusiedl was a bit of my Kryptonite, I just did not get warm with the spot during the EFPT Event there. Anyways a forecast popped up which predicted up to 45knots South Wind. Usually I would go to Weiden, but my friend Luki convinced me to give Neusiedl another try. Already on the way there, I heard on the Radio that’s up to 100km/h South Wind in Neusiedl. I was excited. After a few runs on my 4.0, I changed down to 3.6. And I was sailing until it got dark, as it was just THE DAY OF THE YEAR. I think for me it was also a gamechanger. As I finally realized I can land also the hardest moves in not ideal conditions when I pulled of my first planning shifty and some crazy Airfunnel Burners and Kabis in the mega chop. I think it has been at least one year that I ve been so stoked about Windsurfing! And for sure my personal highlight of 2018, which is crazy when you think back on what kind of dream spots I ve been, that I still find the biggest pleasure at the place where I grew up, where I learned to Windsurf and what I call my home!

 

What’s next? Right now I need to catch up with some projects I was working on the whole year to still push it out. There are three Windsurf Videos coming in the following weeks – so prepared! The plan is to squeeze in at least one or two Croatia trips now in December for some R&D Work on new Flikkaplans. I would love to hit the mountains aswell, as I ve a really cool new Cooperation coming up. Anyways latest in Jannuary it will be the time to kick Windsurfing 2019 of. I was thinking quite a lot how Windsurfing could be then. After all those years it is still my big Love. So there is only one way. Windsurf More. More Quality. Go Bigger and send it more!

 

Yours,

Max

 

25.11.2018

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  • Almost a Cover
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