WAKSA BIG AIR

When?
Sunday 10th December

Where?
Contacios, North Scarborough Beach, Scarborough

What Time?
Registration from 1 - 1:30pm, first boosting heats at 2pm or as soon as it is windy enough.

Entry Fee?
$10. Please bring correct change.

Prizes?
Biggest boost takes all! The winner takes the sum total of all entry fees, e.g. if 50 people enter the winner takes home $500.

Format?
No divisions, big air is big air regardless of whether you are man, woman, or child!
5 minute heats with a 2 minute turn around.
2 competitors per heat.
The longest hang time recorded on the day wins, you must land the jump. This is not an elimination format, it does not matter who you happen to be in a heat with, only your best air counts.
If time and conditions permit, a final boosting session between the top scoring 4 or 6 riders will be held at the end to determine the overall winner.
The duration of heats and number of competitors per heat may change depending upon conditions and numbers of entrants on the day.

What Else?
WAKSA will have the trusty BBQ going to keep you fed and softies to keep you watered.

Contact?
Ask here on the forum or email Jess at [email protected] for any further queries. Keep an eye on the forum for updates as the day draws closer, also check out www.waksa.org.au

Bring on the strong winds! cabbages, baked beans and 9 pints of guiness for me [}:)] Looking forward to Sunday and hopefully we will witness some great boosting... I do believe VB may get to show the east coaters how its done

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Originally posted by gruezi
looks like VB needs beer money again.

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Atually VB reckons this gig is Sssooo much of a good thing that he is planning on entering himself twice
to double his chances
Smart move - yeah

i'm fkn werkin

Will it be a C kite with almighty altitude or a bow kite with the hang time? Sunday will tell!

p.s That is not an invisible thread hanging from the channel 7 helicopter to my kite!

Hi Jan,
It has to be longest hangtime; you can't objectively measure height but you can time the duration of a jump. If you come up with a way to measure height let us know :)
Jess

Forgot to mention:

H1 = 1m, and therefore the equation reduces to:

V2 = V1 x H2.

Hi T.E.,

Just wondering...

Is it practically feasable to measure the distance to the kiter using the surveying laser stuff ?? I thought there would need to be a reflective target (prism?) at the location of the kiter??? Thanks.

Fred

I'll be there as long as VB man buys the first round of beers after!!!

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Originally posted by Tribal Elder



from your eye which should be pressed as close as humanly possible to the sand.

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Who gives a flying f...........whether its high or long.........I want 25 knots with 2m swell like forecast, far out.

a standard altimeter would do it no?

as long as it was water proof you put it on before heat set the needle it should record height?

Heres a spanner for the works

The problem I see is how do you run heats when the wind could be say 15 knots at 2 pm but 25 knots by 4 pm? The later your heat the more advantage you would have if the wind increased?

Wouldnt you run it straight through as quickly as possible where everyone gets 2/3 go's at it and you count their best?

then run it through again twice more in random order so every one gets a fair go at it?

let the debate begin

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[i]Originally posted by CarlBevo

let the debate begin

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A BIG AIR event is a battle of the blimps.
Crew will launch the biggest fat-arse kites in their quivers...
and then attempt to deal with the grunt.

It just so happens I have a cheap 16m for sale.
Refer 'Xmas present' topic.
Good luck to all aerialists.

Sounds great Jess!