About umi
umi is about creating artistic windsurfing media that excites and inspires. Windsurfing is a wonderful sport involving travel and adventure, umi wants to show this side of the sport.
umi is the brainchild of Brendan Pyatt and Mart Kuperij who both have been working in the windsurfing industry for several years as a photographer and editor respectively. Both successful in their own fields they want to bring their passion and energy together without the confines that working for other parties brings. Creative freedom for the ultimate freesport...
At the moment umi is working on several video projects. 'Novela das 8' shows Kauli Seadi in Chile, Cape Verde, at home in Brazil, Maui and Jaws and also features a chapter on the PWA events, a look at his amazing competition performances. A thank you to the guys at Quatro/Naish, on whose gear he earned his first two world titles, and a warm welcome to his new sponsors JP/NeilPryde. 'Just like that' is a surf style film based around Alex Mussolini, Jonas Ceballos and Thomas Traversa.
umi is anything we want it to be. Pulling different creative people together to make what we want to make, how we want to make it. For now umi will be concentrating on making windsurf films, but don’t be surprised to see some other exciting umi stuff in the near future!
