Maarten Molenaar is a professional athlete, filmmaker and tour manager of the Freestyle Pro Tour. He lives from and for windsurfing - and it is the discipline of freestyle in particular that spurs him on and in which he is currently putting all his energy. The 28-year-old managed to recover from testicular cancer and has built a life around windsurfing.
Last summer, he travelled to Fuerteventura to learn a new freestyle trick: the Pasko. The trick is named after the European champion and revolutionary filmmaker Andre Paskowski, who died of the same disease in 2013. For Maarten, this trick is therefore much more than just another challenging rotation. He pursued the ambitious goal of mastering the trick exactly on the tenth anniversary of André Paskowski's death in order to regain more self-confidence after his chemotherapy.
This is no ordinary action clip, but this 40-minute film tells an exciting, in-depth story.
Protagonist Maarten Molenaar will also be reporting on the background and making of the film for surf. You can read the article in one of the upcoming spring issues.
- On the website windsurfstories.com/pasko the film celebrates its premiere immediately.
For the next three days (from 5-7 January), "Pasko The Magic Move" will be available to stream there free of charge. So if you're interested in the film, you should take the opportunity this weekend. Have fun!
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- "The Investor": How the Wustrow surf centre became a film set
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