Well i been just learning on an old arc840, mainly body drags and beach work,
Bought a liquid force spectrum 2, and today tried it for the first time with my board, got up and was able to carve out passed the breakers n back in again, tried riding switch back up the beach, but i gotta work on it!

Im just soo friggen happy that i was able to get up!

good feeling hey..i learnt on the same kites..

But there is a big downside in when u finally get up and going..

Thats, u will spend thousands from now,on new gear, spend heaps of time just looking at the wind on the net or the trees as soon as u hear them rustle..
Get angry if u cannot leave work early enough as a clean ne winds builds up..
Then theres the days where u plan a whole weekend around the forecast of sun,20knot winds and a road trip to that place....All to find the weather man lied to u..
And just wasted the whole weekend off planned events...
Have fun and all the best..

Good thing you live so close.

I moved house to be closer, because I was spending so much time driving to the beach just to find the forecast was wrong.

The winds are just starting to be consistent as well.

Bertus

good on ya, it is a great feeling.