Touch wood, no bad injuries tomorrow please.


Moffs is breaking across the bay as we speak.

Tooway lake is filling up.

My 9m got ripped into 2 today.

There was a near miss behind me, one kite fell out of the sky and landed on my head.

Bridle lines around my head again... Just lovely.

I didn't panic this time. I had a wing tip in-front of my face and my bar was all caught in the kite.

I ejected, the other bloke let his kite go and we were swept onto Pincushion Island. Swell wasn't too bad so we didn't get slammed, just a knee graze.

Too much kiting drama in my life.

Pretty bummed so went and took photos in the water with the go pro.

Underoath said..
My 9m got ripped into 2 today.

There was a near miss behind me, one kite fell out of the sky and landed on my head.

Bridle lines around my head again... Just lovely.

I didn't panic this time. I had a wing tip in-front of my face and my bar was all caught in the kite.

I ejected, the other bloke let his kite go and we were swept onto Pincushion Island. Swell wasn't too bad so we didn't get slammed, just a knee graze.

Too much kiting drama in my life.

Pretty bummed so went and took photos in the water with the go pro.

just realised who you are hahahaha oh o looks like my days of anonymously talking **** on seabreeze are numbered. was wondering what you were doing with the gopro in the water.

i stayed in the furtherest downwind run so all my kooky bull**** didnt affect anyone else too much. they chose a real funny area for the comp. they should of carted everyone over to north shore and set off from there would of had entire place to themselves and all the grannys and drunkards could of watched in relative safety as opposed to us copping lulls dropping our kites on there heads in that mad rotor. but hay what do i know.

Underoath said..
My 9m got ripped into 2 today.

There was a near miss behind me, one kite fell out of the sky and landed on my head.

Bridle lines around my head again... Just lovely.

I didn't panic this time. I had a wing tip in-front of my face and my bar was all caught in the kite.

I ejected, the other bloke let his kite go and we were swept onto Pincushion Island. Swell wasn't too bad so we didn't get slammed, just a knee graze.

Too much kiting drama in my life.

Pretty bummed so went and took photos in the water with the go pro.

Why does everyone want to land their kites on your head?

Yeh man, you know big dune? Haha

Any of you guys riding along the Gold Coast over the weekend, with a Blue/White kite? I saw you on the Ch7 News

Oh cool, I really want to kite at the islands.

kiteflo said..
I'm fairly new to the kite surfing and seabreeze community and I'm wondering why loftywinds cops the red ones for pretty much every comment?

thaks for reminding me i had actually forgot to red thumb him hahaha

basicly the more you comment the more people you will upset so whoever has the most comments tends to get bombarded by "undeserved" red thumbs. the real point of it all is that the whole thumb thing doesnt mean ****. ive seen some absolutely terrible advice on here and it gets supported.

so if you care about the points or thumbs and **** your just going to stress for no reason. trick is to not use them as any sort of guide and take everything you read online with a pinch of salt. whatever the **** that means.

kemp the islands is a piece of piss. i did zilzie to grt keppel then grt keppell to pumpkin (xxxx island) then back so many weekends. you can get from xxxx to farnbrough in a half hour if you get a good trajectory. a few of the little ones were quite hard to land on so dont get to tempted. but i remember i started off by just dicking around practiceing on old macgregor or whatever that really close one was and it just kinda grew from there till i experimented with takeing camping gear with me etc etc

oh and talk to the local coastguard in rosslyn they were pretty helpful with navigating me away from the sharkiest of areas hahaha but they also would like a heads up on when your going to do any major crossings etc so yeah 15k aprox 30 minutes always double it if the winds a bit skewy and make sure you understand how higher level winds effect lower level winds time wise. dont want to end up staying night on island only to have her switch on you. had this happen a few times not unexpectidly but just not the right strength i was expecting but its pretty fool proof with farnbrough being there your going to get picked up by 4wd's on the weekend. easters a great time for this sort of **** lift wise (and rdo yo )

kiteflo said..
I'm fairly new to the kite surfing and seabreeze community and I'm wondering why loftywinds cops the red ones for pretty much every comment?

They all give me red thumbs because they cannot stand an 48yo kook that can kite, get cheap gear, modify it to make it work, and still get stoked out there for almost 90% off the price of what most young-guns pay for gear and lessons.
Oh and also because my opinion is seen as "dangerous", yet I know the reality compared to their glossy magazine-style training they've received either from a DVD or mates/trainer.
I learnt from Trial and Error, and got battered the hard way - so yeah I do know what I am talking about.
But meh... do young idiots listen to experience and wisdom these days unless one is black, a pro basketballer or footballer, with gold chains and skinny clad women by his side? Nah

Loftywinds said..

do young idiots listen to experience and wisdom these days unless one is black, a pro basketballer or footballer, with gold chains and skinny clad women by his side? Nah

well listen to it when you throw a handle pass :)