"Wind, Waves, and Rocks that loomed like sirens. What could go wrong? This book is the Top Gun of Windsurfing."
Bill Boyum
Author, Journals from the Edge

MAUI GLORY DAYS tells the story of Maui's golden age of windsurfing, from the early pioneering days at Kailua to the giant waves of Ho'okipa and Jaws. Relive the times of kings and legends; of a sport grew from longboards into high-performance windsurfing in big surf. Read about true stories of survival, from near-drownings to helicopter crashes, from Big Monday to the discovery of Jaws.

Maui Glory Days is told by Jonathan Weston, a windsurfing photographer and filmmaker whose work won Sports Illustrated Picture of the Year. He was the first watersports filmmaker to take audiences along for the ride with a helmet-mounted 16mm film point-of-view camera.

Go behind the scenes of the making of movies like Impact Zone, where Playboy Magazine called this movie, "The greatest audience participation film ever made." The book shares all the thrills, the dangers and the behind-the-scenes moments of an era when nobody had money in their pockets and all that mattered was getting on the water. Don't believe us? Read all the 5 Star Reviews on Amazon.

"A remarkable story of perseverance and triumph of the human spirit."
Barry Spanier
Sail Designer
 
Dan Wilson

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2019

The author has a quirky style that twists and turns ideas back into truths. The early windsurfing days in Maui were incredible and many times just scary. Jonathan photographed the action from the impact zone and wrote this story between breaths. His photographs bring life to the Hookipa big wave arena like no other. There are stories of people we only saw in magazines and a feeling of the hierarchy that ruled the waves. He humbly brings us into his imperfect story to the fact that Maui windsurfing, in the beginning, was the wild west, a true unknown frontier worthy of the hero’s and glory. Well done!

 

Dan Wilson

Lasik Engineer