pretty windy today...
 

for anyone who couldnt ride because they didnt have a small enough kite, i still have a 2005 7m yarga thats just chillin in my garage....

could have ridden a B3 trainer kite at East Beach today. I got gust registering 29 knots on the beach. SW meter said up to 38 around 1 pm.

we were all (about 4-5 people) hanging on to 9m bow kites completely litt

awsome session,
the 7m would have been litt as well, but doable if we were on 9m bows....
unless you only weigh 125 :)
there was someone riding an 7,8, or 9m octane and doing fine....

They only make 8 Octanes of those sizes so it must have been an 8M...

It was Mike Hall on the Octane.

I was riding a 9m Fuel most of the day, but got off the water at about 12-12:30.

NUKIN.

I had to go home early to seek relief via Advil, heating pad, ice cream, etc...Crazy ass wind.

causeway was pretty insane. Got out there at about 3:00pm....and just watched one guy on his 7m waroo, while I contemplated on-shore whether or not launching my 9m waroo would be such a good idea. I declined. There were some pretty insane gusts...one of them actually knocked me back a few steps and almost ripped out a couple of small street signs. Ikite showed SW at 30 gusting to 40 from 2pm-4pm. I noticed the wind picking up heavily at the causeway from about 3-4:15pm and helped the 7m guy call it quits....needless to say, he was litt as well. I wish I would have studied later in the day and caught the wind when it was a bit more reasonable. There's always tomorrow morning....

got there at noon.. everyone was on 12's..

second i got it pumped up it picked up about 5 to 10 mph more.. and stuck.

i gave the 12 a whirl and there was no way it was going to be fun..

got the 9m 'roo in the air and had a freakin blast. had to take a sit during that one 45 min section where it just went off..

once it calmed a bit i went back out and had tons of fun.

watching Billy P on his 9m going HUGE and then throwing passes.. holy shhhhht.
that man is insane.

i know that today i boosted larger than ever in my life.. hit a few that just sent me to the clouds..

epic day indeed.

nearly 4 hours on the water today.

wow.

Did anyone pick up a slingshot bar today? I left mine out there. 813-713-6210. Thanks.

Didn't get to spend much time on the Monkey's today. Smallest size was a 12M. Who knew these winds were going to be on like that ALL DAY!

After sitting around for awhile, got a fun chance to ride a 5M Waroo. That was interesting.

We will shoot again for Sunday with the Monkey's. Glad to see everybody made it home safe. Considering the winds, no one got jacked.'

Later,
Steve-O

Sat on my ass in the office and stared out the window at the trees trying not to break because they were getting blown around so much. 'Flew' a 1/3M Paper airplane into the dude in the adjacent cube to mine and went to a 'board' meeting. Waited at the salad 'bar' in 'line' for lunch while all you lucky bastards rode.

There was some heat out there today and I had to throw some of it! I too had some of the highest jumps of my life. I'm getting used to having some height -just need to learn to land it, since my back seemed to be absorbing more than is healthy. By the way, some of my biggest jumps of the day were on the Monkey kites before it BLEW UP. Everyone should try those kites. I would like to see what the low end of the 12m will be.


Sorry you couldn't make it Toby.

yeah , glad I got to go out in the morning DP session when it was just 20-25 kts , ( had to quickly de-rig from my 14 to my 12m XBow II after just two runs ) , and had the whole place to myself for awhile with crazy gusts sometimes

Pretty sure that was a 12m kite, brah...

i couldn't go.. had scuba class:(

good news though.. i passed the test! lol

i'll be out tomarrow (friday) if still windy.

E-Bone was right. It was a 12M. It was sick. E-Bone - I got to get my 12 out about 3:30 and ride for several hours. It rocked - the winds backed down a little. I have some pics of Billy. I know he has a ton but does he want them? If so, let me know if he has an e-mail address. The file is too big for me to post unless someone can tell me how to do it.

Tony

Tony,

Look here:

http://www.fksa.org/showthread.php?p=3846#post3846

I hope this helps!

Toby

Billy on a 12m.. damn.

We have also posted some pics on the Extreme Kites forum at this link, then simply put that link in a post at FKSA:

http://www.extremekiteskiteboarding....opic.php?t=338

Tony, if you have a number of pics and you need to resize them to 80x600 or something you can pick up a free copy of Jalbum.

google it..

its a free web photo album generator .. very cool.. free.. and simple to use.. and it will auto resize your photos for you. i use it to batch-resize a bunch of photos quickly. (pain in the ass to open each one and resize one at a time).

it will dump all the resized photos in a folder so it wont affect the originals. it also generates the html and what not if you have a webserver you can post to.. or you can just get a flickr.com account and upload them there ..

let me know if you have any questions or need any help. we would all love to see what photos you have. Also might be able to email them to Roy and i'm sure he would post them at http://www.epickitesurfing.com/

Roy's email is kite@epickitesurfing.com

later..

B

and another thing..

i missed out on the monkey kites yesterday.. i was LITT on my 9m waroo.. the guys on the MK 12ms looked like they were having fun but the kites were definitely very powered and the it was gusty as hell.

hopefully Sunday will be more 12m friendly.

:)

looked like solid kites. I did check out the bar and it looked clean as a whistle .. similar to the waroo 2007 bar/depower w/ stopper.

Bryan-

Thanks a lot. I talked to Roy. I am going to send them his way.