That's about how long i can last without a kite session.
After that i'm like a junky looking for a fix.
Living across the road from the beach , Watching kites go bye and being 4 months into a 8 month recovery from a kite crash . I would do just about anything for a session .![]()
When they taught us to kite, they didnt teach us how to deal with no bloody wind,chin up bro, she'll blow again soon![]()
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I,m a FIFO Kiter 28 days off 9 days on............only 16 days to go. ![]()
No wonder I drink. [}:)] and buy gear online that I don't really need.
For you guys that are climbing the walls, injured, had enough of the misuss & need some kind of kite fix take a look at 'Revolution Kites'. I guarantee these kites are extremely challenging , very addictive & a lot of fun. As long as you haven't broken your wrists, it gets you out of the house to the beach or local park from very low winds up to 15 Knts. Also have a zero wind kite, which can be flown indoors if its pissing down & you have a basket ball court for a lounge room.
2 non seasons + a shop keeping me off the water even when it was on.
Then a great season (well not great but pretty damn good) and Im off with a stuffed hip for the whole of it .... I reckon I get 1st dibs at complaining.
But final treatment seems to be working so its game on for me from next week on.
Yeeeow
Reckon I might be needing a few lessons though.
No laffing if u see me out there flailing around like stunned porpoise.
I don't even last a week without a fix, longer then that I get frustrated ill even go down the beach and chill out hoping the wind blows on those lull days lol
And those that don't kite or are pretenders have no idea what we are talking about here! They kin of look at you funny like their is something wrong with you Maybe there is. ..![]()
Few observations on the addiction below.
The missus avoids me after only a week of no wind. Winter time tends to offer durations of up to 5 weeks of a nag free home.
When u havnt had a sesh in ages,rock up to the local with day light dwindling and someone always wants a land or launch as u run lines out.
Tourists or bystands like to watch u wanting to launch - from a downwind position,and again in dwindling daylight when ur itching for a punt.
Non kiters think that in a bee's fart wind must mean its on.
No anger issues here - just havnt kited in a few days ![]()
Have a feeling we are about to have the two week barrier tested soon....![]()
hey yesterday was a nice taster for winter though...so good!