When the seabreeze kicks in most afternoons off the coast of Adelaide it creates a surface chop of about 2 feet. I find that in a normal session that I tend to swallow quite alot of saltwater, thrown up from the board or just recovering the board, after coming off. Obviously, I'm not trying to take in saltwater, but surely this can't be good for you? Is there any long term effect?

The long term afect is that you learn to keep your mouth shut, learn to ride through chop without generating to much spray and fall off less resulting in less body draging.

In the long term, if you keep drinking salt water you will become dehydrated and die. The more salt water you drink the thirstier you will get and more dehydrated you will get. We drink water to flush salt from our body and can only get rid of certan amount of salt which is a lot less than the amount found in salt water there fore the amount of salt keeps building up.

But dont be woried as drinking a fresh water will flush out any salt in your body eventualy and the small amount you drink while kiting would probaly not be enougth to cause dehydration. But just remember better safe than sorry try not to drink all of the water at your local spot and you should be just fine.

Try closing your mouth whilst kiting. It should help.

^^^ if your talking about buttcrack, it helps to wear boardies or wettie when you kite.

i on the other hand get water up my nose... coz often at the time of hard impact, one needs to concentrate on many things at the same time ... i.e. how to stack without causing major injuries, depowing the kite, keeping the board away etc... so often do'nt have enough concentration left to fully shut nasal muscles... so a little bit of water always comes through...

so i try to crash less... (i suppose i could always try clothes peg)

shut ya mouth, bitch!

kyteryder said...

Try closing your mouth whilst kiting. It should help.

lol

Seriously though that does seem to work...