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Originally posted by carbine
5 guys 20 and under throwing down at woodies offshore. yeah it has changed, the young folk are stepping up and pushing it hard. While the older riders are becoming waveslave. 
Yeah,
The groms do tricks cause they're made of rubber.
They bounce back pretty good after a real bad kiteloop or two.
hehehe
Sometimes on a windy afternoon when there are no waves I visit the local flatwater spot.
For me, it's like watching another sport and it's great entertainment.
(I just spectate, I don't kite flatwater.)
The flatwater beach is always covered in spaghetti and the crew continually swap gear.
It's a fucn kitesurfing orgy.
Showponies boost huge in front of the carpark (that's the stuff I like),
and it's generally happy-hour at kitebeach.
The local wavespot is different.
The inside is dead for wind due to wind-shadows and the direction is weird.
The inside flats don't suit tricks or even straight-line kiting.
The launch is dodge too and death-luffs are common.
So there's not much happening on the beach and there's not much happening on the inside flats.
The reefline is the physical borderline for wind and wave action.
A wavey line made of limestone rock drawn in the Indian Ocean.
So you chug out across the flats, hit the reefline and lean into the power.
Catch a few, kill a couple of hours, and then dump the bitch back on the sand where you started from.
It's two sports.
I like the difference.
Viva la difference.
