Now that the summer breezes have finally arrived, here is a new Chat Thread to use and abuse...

Go hard or Go Home...

Im FIRST

Actually I was.... but I'll let you off....

IM SECOND! well technically 3rd but if norwester get away with first.....

Hey Blizzad do you own the scorpion??? ive been trying to find a pic of it but for one reason or another the pete lynn site wont let me look at it and google images has nuthin

I'll get a scorpion as soon as I possibly can. Shouldn't be too long I hope. (unless the G2 kills me first :wink: )

You can see some pics of them here:

www.peterlynnkiteboarding.com/

Blizard wrote


or you get a jump all messed up But after what has been said about the G2 I wouldn't turn my back on it oooooooooor it might get it's revenge.

KD

Pictures of the scorpian and also a vid can be found here.

http://www.extremekites.com.au/gallery/k.../peterlynn_scorpion/

Cant wait for tomorrow.

Well First for me cause you are the moderator Spig so you dont count
Any how lads give me some update on wind and tides for today and i will see if i can make it for a bit of a session later

dropping my leave form in today :? lets wait and see what happens

Wind is currently avg 13/ gust 18 from the NE

Low tide around 2:30pm

Perfect

Wicked c u @ the beach ......what beach today

North Beach up by Spigs house.

Then we can cruise to the waimak and Blizz can try and cross it again....I want to see it but on video this time.

We will hit the beach at 1.00 see all there....

Spig you better be out....Ookie maybe you should come say hello....Mason has work so he wont be coming....Me and Blizz and possibly Kitedaddy.

BRING SUNCREAM AND DRINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!we are going to need it.

Sorry I was stuck video editing and restoring the Media PC/Server data after a rather bad hardware failure. I might be able to squeeze in an hour at Tullet Park late friday morning, depends on how long the rehearsal for the wedding runs. :wink:

The wind looked good, how was it?

The wind was awesome yesterday. We got some pretty good footage.

...I also tried kitesurfing, which isn't so easy :shock:

Zenon hit 58kph in the flexifoil buggy, with spig's 3m sami2. Very fast indeed!!

I cracked a spar in the G2 (which seemed pretty angry at me yesterday for some weird reason :wink:) so I fixed it up with a bit of driftwood and kept flying. I didn't even notice it after that.

So we had like 16-18 knots right? I think that really is a sweet spot in terms of wind strength. The perfect amount in my opinion.

At 10-13 knots it just isn't fun enough.

Yeah, a bit gusty but 12-18 knots all afternoon...

Sweet...

yep! u stop u sink! makes it all a bit harder eh!

Yeeha 58.8kmph it twas....so wanted to crack 60kmph but that will have to wait till next time.

In my opinion that was a bit much wind....would have much perferred 15knts solid but that will change when i get meself a 4.0m Blade IV....then ill need all i can get.....

Also balancing on the thing seems like such a dark art!! But I think I'm getting it now, back foot does the work... front foot just guides the board.

best part was going about 50 metres, then getting waaaay too overpowered, loosing the board's edge and getting dragged through the surf. Bailing is way more fun than staying upright!!!

GPS? Anyone had a go at putting a bike speedo on a buggy?

Guess that makes it harder than landboarding. :wink:

hmmm no not really

weight should be roughly even

99% sure I'm doing an early morning roadie to the jibjam sat morning,.... bringing all the junk

Mint. The jib jam should be a good few days kiting.

did someone say "watchout!! It's a kite surfing newbie!!"

I'll bring my wetsuit...

ill bring mine too im keen to have a go....

Doofus how many boards do you have spare?????

hmmm, i'll be bringing 4

one big surfboardy kinda one
one regular twintip one
one small twintippy one
and a speed needle

the speed needle wont be ridable for u guys

but u can try any of the other 3

I got dips on riding the surf style board.....

o and anybody got a kite i can borrow....Blades aint really the right type of kite to fly....

SOLID i learned to static jump with the 7m man i swear thats about the most fun ive ever had on a kite. The second link to the petelynnscorpion worked looks like a sweet kite. I trained my dog to pull me on my Mountainboard its mint on the road he can run fast enuf for me to get speed wobbles speed wobbles are scary lol my trucks are nice and tight tho

Sweet Bond!! Sounds like you'll be pulling off kite loops in no time!

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:53 am



Haha... he finally admits the truth, about time too!!

fingers crossed for that forecasted NE today

Yup... it's definatly NE - ENE... currently blow only 6knots

I'll let you know what it's doing at around 3:00pm when the tide is on it's way out...

man yesterday was insanity very strong onshore SE the 3m was pulling me around when i flew it infront of me i made a skid as long as a house lol it seems i missed out on a primo session coz when i got there i had about 15 mins or so before it got gusty. Rob had been out for two hours kite surfing, Do kitesurf kites not get affected by gusts? coz they were ripping along the water at a steady speed and i was battln my foil.

Any way i got toeside lol i was leanen so far one way with the kite pulln me the other felt awesome.

Soon will be tryn air on my landboard yee harr!

Wind has dropped to 5 knots.... I'll keep an eye onm it in the next hour

well today sucked in terms of the wind... but it was a mint day for video editing.

As such, the first movie from the AEOBB (angry eyed octopus buggy brigade) is completed!

At the moment it's 120mb at the full res (6min 15sec), but a downloadable version will become available ASAP.

It's got some really cool footage included, taken from 3-4 different sessions, they include:

Waitangi day (20 knots cross onshore)
"the Sunday session" (12 knots of GAY onshore wind)
"after work sessions" (approx 18 or so knots)

Highlights of the film are my numerous crashes and silly antics. Zenon wheelies over the camera. Symptom nearly takes the cameraman out mid flight.

-Blizz.

haha i almost destroyed my camera last night i put it on the road and just as i was about to hit it i jumped but man it was so close lol, not so lol however is the wind which is almost bringing me to tearing my hair out and eating it because i havent been kiting for ages, apparently the worst summer rob's seen. jumpn wheelie bins and cruzing down streets if the wind dont come soon im gonna go mental!

do you need a harness to get air on your mtboard?

A harness is definitely required. It will make kiting heaps easier on your arms, and you you'll be able to fly for far longer.

Plus jumping without a harness just rips your arms out after a while.

We had pretty gay wind here too dude. Just farrr too light. But I did manage to cruise for a couple of hours on Saturday. First session on the Scorpion, and man is it awesome. 8)

For jumping as Blizz says you will need a harness......its almost a requirement nowddays

hey, which one of you guys was I talking to at Waikuku a while back who does all the kitemaking and repairs all the kites for peter lynn, can you please make yourself known! i have a bit of a sewing project that I could well use your help with if you're interested.

drop us a pm

cheers,
Shane.

That would be Blizzad aka William.....give him a pm.

Sewing project you say? I'm in... PM sent

> still no wind at all I thnk im actually losing hair lol (literally)the winds been ofshore gusty the shittest wind you can get here because its extremely unpredictable. been doing a bit of mountainboarding tho the next best thing to KGB, met another kid with a mountainboard so now i know 5 people in rtown with boards which is pretty cool. Man MBS has changed heaps, my new m8 will was riding a mbs razor hes had for about 4years but i think his dad used to ride it lol its got the old school bindings and channel trucks nothing like the matrix nowdays, had a bit of fun sliding it round on the grass coz the tires have no tread at all.

L8az BOND

P.S i myt be gettn woosh if i can out here in rtown so you might be seeing more of me on this forum

so when do we get to see it ya muppets?

I got unlimited traffic here and an internet server in the next room with lots of space

so stick it on a cd and post it to me or something, save ys burning up your jetstream mb's

damn bad influence aeobb's making me bend my stuff

What happened? :shock:

Shame I wasn't there with the camera!

BTW Great to finally start meeting a few of the people here.

decided that the jumping thing looked easy which is kinda true, but my buggy is now bent, no huge surprise really.

hehe

yea everytime we try upload it it times out and fails 1/2 way through...

Righto then doofus, I'll mail you through a CD ASAP.

I'm sick of waiting for these other two to sort it out :roll:

Pm with your postal address, and I'll get it out to you by the weekend.
Cheers, Will

ok here it goes

Blizz i have a smaller version of the video for you to send him come get it off me today after i finish work 7.30ish.

Yeah I gotta say jumping does look cool, it's getting back to the ground bit that I'm a little less keen on. Was it the rear axle?

yup

easy to bend back though