Well what a day it was today.

Woke up to find one of the best winds for the beach. NE!! woohoo. still to cold for me to want to hit the water so the beach was on.

A whole series of texts later to various people and the meet was set for 2 oclock north beach.

had almost the whole gang by 3ish...with myself on mountain board, will in the buggy, nathan on mountain board, craig hansen on buggy and richard in buggy and finally caleb on mountain board.

The wind was cranking....16 knots give a few more for gusts and we were rocking.
Stupid me decided on the 12m ion 2 for the day and what a choice...big floaty jumps on the board.
Nathan on his sabre 9.5m which was POWERED even for him....some nice jumps and spins...and wipeouts as well.
Will spent most of the day on craigs 8m synergy and that thing is QUICK...watched some great wipeouts from that combo...
Richard was flying a 2 m ish PL race foil...cant remember the name. and did 61kmph clocked on his gps...i think all that were riding the buggys managed somewhere around the same speed at some point of another.
Caleb was learning on his mountain board with the sabre 7m and by the end of the day was doing well.
Craig was rocking with a series of kties over the day. started with a small reactor i think or whatever it was but he broke it....then continued the day on another reactor...some nice jumps and good speed runs...i think he also blitzed the entire beach...! waimak to southshore...twice!!! not bad for the first ride of the season.
O and then we had Ray turn up while we all went to the waimak. He hit the water on the 10.5 ion 2 and was ripping...some nice wee jumps thrown in to boot.

All in all one mighty brilliant day out for the first good ride of the season...bring on the warmth of summer for today got freaking cold by the end of it.

WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

I'm sore all over. The 8m synergy is deadly :twisted:

Great session. I couldn't believe how great it really turned out today. I'd say it's in the "top ten of all time." Next time I have to beat that damn orange blokart... he is quick.

If Richard clocked 61, I can't imagine how fast Craig and I were going :shock:

Craig's estimates are 70-80kph, which is probably about right... seeing as he has done the moose numerous times before. That 8m synergy is fast... Today was definitely the fastest that I have ever gone.

And that 12m ion.... It's like your own personal elevator. 8) Sheet in and go up.

Let's get on the water.
Cheers guys, Will

ahhh... that sounds like a good session.

now zennon i heard gps in there somewhere. you should be borrowing it and doing a speed up try to beat my 48kph.

funfunfun! alltho it seems whenever i get near a kite i've got flu :? , but couldn't resist the pull of a stonker day at the north shore.

second attempt at a bar and depower, first was on a snowboard with a foot and a half of powder beneath, second time is in yesterdays tempest. but what fun , reckon i could well get into that. couldn't quite figure out how to stop, hence the inventive landings, but was getting nice powerslides by the end of the day. alltho doing them switch is soo tricky, ate sand right next to 3 fine foxy ladys :oops: . jumps next i think.

i'll bring my camera along to the next one and see if i can get some good footage, the light was amazing around half five.

Ahh, shut up you lot!!!! we have not seen wind in Palmy for 3 months now, don't know whats happened, we usually get too much.
Good to hear some one is having fun.........hope it moves this way a little

I will. dont you worry. i first need to build my board....thats the weekend task maybe. if i can manage to get school work done. then ill need a job to pay for the trucks and bits.

8m synergy? wouldn't you need a whole bucket load more wind for that kite? or is way more powerfull than the venom?
i know my 10m venom is only just starting to fire up at those wind speeds.

same day in Auckalnd perrin and i did a buggy run on our almost totally wet beach , i got 66.3kmph on reactor 2.2 and perrin 77.4kmph on yak 2.2. Great to hear you lads had a good session, im looking fwd to the moose even more now... on oct 18-19

I am still sore in the abs 2 days later, makes bending over loads of fun NOT!!!

It was a great day and good to see everyone there. Well pleased with my 61 kmph its my highest yet and was hoping to break 60 this year to!! Though i had the GPS on the wrong screen and didn't know how fast i was going and got the speed wobbles a few times so backed off a bit, especially after wiping out twice on the way up to the wiamak. if i ahd known how fast The kite was the 2.6m PL viper i like that kite in those winds i find the 3.3m blade a bit to much in that wind.

So good to get out in a decent wind after only a few light wind session over the winter. Blew those cobwebs away.

tomorrow mornings looking promissing for another sunday bash, predicting noreasters and sunny , think low tide is around 9am'ish. does anyone know a good free wind speed/direection site so we can check it out, long way to drive for me if its poo. might have some dutch newbies with me.

we dont have any decent wind websites. the one that i have been using to give me an approximate value is

http://www.zl3gp.co.nz/wxlive/ and that is totally live.

That and i often text spig.

your welcome to text me for wind reports i tend to check the wind at north beach using the macrocarpa wind ometer next to the beach every...10mins!

Hey my friend kyle is learning to landboard (very quickly!)

and he's looking at getting a kite... you got some for him to demo? Depowerable foils?

yeah man. Ive got that sabre that caleb was flying and a nice 10.5m Ion 2...not a foil but depower and great for the landboard.

Ill be in touch next weekend when its good tides for the beach, we can get him out on the gear.

looks like me and a dutch are heading over for a mornig rip, if theres any chance of bringing a 3m four line alnog for him to learn with that would be ... super. gonna get some sleep now, seee you's tommorow :mrgreen:

what does mr green mean as an emotion? he's kinda non-descript.

scrapping this ride then. all the sites i can find have the wind going from sse to nne, and wind speeds 3km to 11km, but that just don't sound umpthy enough to drag me down the beech.

question, 1 knot is about 1 mile per hour yeah? so that would make todays max wind about 5 knots?

Belac!

holy crap! Where is this MTBoarding park???

I wanna come ride it!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOO!!! looking at your air strip blog at the moment!! AAArghh!!

It looks amaaazing! Are you guys riding today?

The winds to light at the mo 6-7.5 knots and from SE. Had no joy with the 6.4 reactor this morning.

pm 'd you spoonhead, i'll be up there from about 1pm if you do fancy coming over.

Got some stuff to sort out, but I'll be at North brighton in about 2 hours. TOO EPIC to miss.

About time I hit the water again. :twisted:

What are you doing in the water? swimming or fishing..?

There aint much wind here about 5 knots.

Would be great if it picked up tho!

how about now?

probably 10 now... a bit SE

i will be back at north Btown at about 430 so hopefully its picked up to 20 knots by the time i get home