I was nailing my board offs and kiteloops (mostly) before, so now I want to try the 360 boardoff again.

Really hope to be at the beach

no wind
none of these emocons thingys really convey the futility of off days.
i think its time to give up kiting in favour of line dancing or something.

You need to move to the city Belac there's been a couple of awesome days this week. Nate and I hit the beach yesterday after work and was rewarded with a couple of long runs to spencerville and back hitting speed of 60+ kmph. Though i did have my first OBE of the season at spencerville. It was the result of a quick turn to avoid Nate and i crossing kites and i was to far up the beach near the soft side and the kite was to low in the wind window and over a went and up the beach i was dragged, was a bit of a buzz after the event. Hopefully we'll get some kiting in this weekend as i was to busy last weekend working still got some work to do this weekend, though hoping to finish it tomorrow morn and get some mountain biking and buggying in.

Just a heads up after an awesome afternoon down on the beach with the peter lynn guys and a little racing. We had a visit from the ranger similar to late year asking us to go north of waimari beach and south of south brighton surf club as per the CWA guidelines. Thats all i'm going to say.

Mason and I had an absolute blast out there on Friday.. Was awesome.

hmm mr ranger again.. Keep it sensible boys.. here is what i propose we shall do.

Nobody flying through the yellow flags excessively. If you need to go through this area do it at walking pace with your kite as high as it can be..

Do not ever set up right in front of the surf club and do not set up infront of groups of people on the beach. Find a clear spot.

Its all common sense but its up to us to enforce it and keep everything safe. I for one will be making sure i do it but i also wont be exclusively flying wayy down south or wayy up north as asked by the ranger unless it is really really busy which it will be getting worse in the weekends.

See you on the beach guys!

ZenoN wrote:
Mason and I had an absolute blast out there on Friday.. Was awesome.

hmm mr ranger again.. Keep it sensible boys.. here is what i propose we shall do.

Nobody flying through the yellow flags excessively. If you need to go through this area do it at walking pace with your kite as high as it can be..

Do not ever set up right in front of the surf club and do not set up infront of groups of people on the beach. Find a clear spot.

Its all common sense but its up to us to enforce it and keep everything safe. I for one will be making sure i do it but i also wont be exclusively flying wayy down south or wayy up north as asked by the ranger unless it is really really busy which it will be getting worse in the weekends.

See you on the beach guys!

Sounds good to me, i'll be doing the same, as i find up the north and down the south is often full of dog walkers.

not to mention crazy nudists up north and loads of horses...

Stay sensible and we should be fine..

ZenoN wrote:
not to mention crazy nudists up north and loads of horses...

Stay sensible and we should be fine..

Ah forgot about the old man and his fishing rod

Well, this week I've managed to get out 3 times already, I'm so loving living next to the beach!

Did clock myself one today coming down from a big slow 360 and got lofted a bit high and hit my head pretty hard, so glad I wear my helmet!

So I"m still trying to get some filming done, need to sort out my tapes and stuff...

Well i hit the beach this evening for a short blast to dry out my Rage as a packed it away a little wet from nelson this weekend and thought i give wheels in the buggy another go and don't know what went right this time but nailed them and did a bout 10 really good ones and one going from at least 200m maybe more. what great fun now just have to get them going in the opposite direction.

Nice getting out there again tonight, slightly SEish so not the best coming up wind (to where the dry sand was) but felt good getting some big floaty air again.

Tried some small kiteloops but with the soft stuff being so close I get loosing my bottle, managed a few small ones but nothing to write home about.
My flexibility is way down, can barely grab the handle to get the board off now

ah well, enjoying being able to hit the beach for a hour before dinner

Ive been neglecting my land based kite activities in favour of the slightly more wet activity that is kitesurfing at the estuary..

Need to get back to the beach and stomp some new tricks..

Martin, you need to stop complaining... if its not your flexibility its your loss of muscle blah de blah.... cant pull my weight anymore... cant touch my toes.. just kite already....

but it is all those things
I"m getting out way more now, but I keep realising 'shit, I'm getting old...'

well yes i realise that but god dam i dont need to be told everytime your out mate... ... just get up a fly... its good for the body and mind...

Nice to see a whole bunch of kites up this afternoon!
Was getting some really nice air and good speed on the hard stuff, still bottling out of those 720's though, same with the kiteloops (when nobody's around to pick up the mess afterwards)

Glad summer finally decided to pay us a visit

Its a good 10 knots+ today(sat) and looking at hitting the beach around 3pm when the tide is low enough.

I think I'll be in town around then, but if I do get out it'll be south of the pier, as my house is right neext to that carpark there.
Looks like a great day and I can confirm that 10knots, I"d say it was a minimum right now