ajs18s said..

gdmclean said..

On a side note, it wont be long before someone invents a tracking device. Wear something on your wrist like a fitbit watch or similar that shows direction and distance, with the tracker being embedded in the board. Id buy one if it were made.

They do, but it is not wireless yet....

haha

FlyByKite said..

drewpweiner said..

Unfortunately some newbies are stubborn and don't take onboard good advice from experienced people. If you would prefer to be able to keep seeing your BOARD... ditch the legrope before you have a serious accident with the board and are unable to ever see it again. It'll be easier to find your BOARD if you can still see it, before it takes out an eye...or both! If losing a board is more important to you than your safety, you have the wrong mindset.
Learn to body drag properly is no1 before riding a board, unless you have a boat crew and retrieval team there for you. Good luck

Good advice. I had a leash on yesterday and found it so hard to pull the board back to me and keep the kite at 12. So you end up like a sitting duck as opposed to keeping the kite in the air in case you feel a chomp in which case you can send the kite from 3 to 9 oclock and get blasted out of the water away from the shark.

Also, if you are kiting with people then sometimes someone will bring your board back to you. It is just such a huge worry when you are waaaaay out the back in the deep ocean and you can't see your board anywhere.

If I was that worried about sharks I'd give up entering the ocean.
You know fear attracts sharks, most people who are attacked by dogs are the scared ones.
I don't think I would be sending my kite from "3 to 9 o'clock and blasting out of the water away from the shark."
(Unless I can see the shark has let go and away from me)
That might just rip what ever the shark has in it's mouth away from the rest of you.
Better off punching it in the nose or poking at it's eyes.
If you can't keep the kite at 12 while pulling your board in, what chance will you have in controlling the kite
if a shark is attacking you?
"Waaaaaaay out the back" - Most shark attacks are in shallow water.
Have fun

Is that proven? Seems like a wives tail to me. I am not sure for how you can account for the telepathy of fear. Whos knows tho
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My whole idea was to take off with me in the shark at the same time, then land me and him on the beach and that ****er can lose HIS life and not mine.

I can't believe humans are so intelligent and yet not intelligent enough to deter our predators, haha. Maybe because we are still so stupid as to listen to environmentalist talk of "the impact on the environment if sharks were wiped out" yeah bull****... That sounds like the **** that spews from my arse when I speak of the devastating impact on evolution that was caused from the meteor wiping out most of the dinosaurs... we which just so happen gave rise to intelligent primates, so devastating hey?

Mate, I really don't think kite surfing is for you. Try a sport where you can't argue with everyone and where there isn't a forum to post on - you'll be a lot happier.

Been watching Drewpweiners posts for a while and im sure hes a very experienced kiter having a troll at our expense.

Who are you Drew?

JoeMc said..
Been watching Drewpweiners posts for a while and im sure hes a very experienced kiter having a troll at our expense.

Who are you Drew?

Just someone who is unsatisfied with their personal life and therefore finds it amusing to push the boundaries of expected social conventions on internet forums. That's honest ;)

drewpweiner said..
I can't believe humans are so intelligent and yet not intelligent enough to deter our predators, haha. Maybe because we are still so stupid as to listen to environmentalist talk of "the impact on the environment if sharks were wiped out" yeah bull****... That sounds like the **** that spews from my arse when I speak of the devastating impact on evolution that was caused from the meteor wiping out most of the dinosaurs... we which just so happen gave rise to intelligent primates, so devastating hey?

Troll or not, this weiner sounds like a total fark stick

I like leashes on tt riders. It lets me know who the gupters are on the water. I'll stay upwind of those dudes, which isn't hard because the leash guys usually can only just hold ground, let alone actually going upwind.

One thing is certain. I've never a seen tt leash user rip. They are all bellow average to crappola!

harlie said..

never seen a surfboard "go upwind". Even if you endup 25m downwind of it the surfboards are pushed by the wind so fast.

Everyone goes through a period of loosing their board, either suck it up and improve or use a leach and run the risk

Ever kited in a river mouth?

Yep, been there done that. Cotton Tree, outgoing tide, board was out of reach within seconds. I body dragged back to the beach, landed my kite and was able to catch glimpses of my board periodically.... was waiting for it when half hour later it washed up in the surf about 500m further south. Happy ending for me.
New board still cheaper than dental work after getting smashed in the teeth though