no... not using the fuel this season... using the liquid force hi fi - brown/gold colour with black/white tips... usually i kite mostly between romawi st and the rock wall on the west end, or even past it sometimes... only stay closer to the pier when it's not too crowded...
i don't really bother kiting in light winds though...
which is your kite?
hi gents (and ladies with male seabreeze personae),
i was out yesterday from about 5-7pm on a white and orange switchy. i'm probably most recognisable by my superhero rashie which covers my whole head except my face (yes i'm a ranga). unless it's quiet i tend to ride further out, and roam up to apex park now and then.
have finally joined the mako facebook group and plan to be a bit more social when my schedule and a mako event line up. i would be up for an altona-seabreeze-anonymous-users bbq at which identities are revealed. maybe lunch on a day when a later seabreeze is forecast?
ciao, brendan
^^^^ white rashie over your head?
if so, then i'm pretty sure i've kited past you last night close to 6 pm, i was also kiting close to the apex park, but then had a massive stack during half committed front roll, smashed flat backwards into the water at high speed (possibly shallows, but can't remember)... lost all my reflexes after that and decided to call it quits for couple days...
anyways, i'll look out for your kites next time i'm out...
Thanks for the tip! My problem was actually the kiteloop not the downloop, but I think either way you are right that the mistake is trying to pull youself through it as opposed to taking off more vertically by using the back leg.
I also found them a bit easier when riding against the swell direction or even with the assistance of a wave/chop, because you tend to jump more vertically with less forward momentum.
Cant wait to try kiteloops/pussyloops without style, but only with full protection! 
With all due respect to Superlizard, if i was going to choose a fake nick it wouldn't be that. Mind you "Mr Plow" is hardly super imaginative either.
we use to park our cars and ride where the park is and circus is ,away from people swiming and other water users ....power lines.... roads....
But the council blocked us from parking there about 4 years ago, so we had to move closer to all the above. 
you can still ride there though... i still see people rigging up at the beach near the park... but yesterday was a full house down there 
Altona is a full house every day just about and each year it's getting worse
What has happened to this thread? It started off as a dig at me and now everybody just wants to catch up for a chat and BBQ's.
I'm feeling left out will anybody give me a cuddle
I usually fly a green and yellow 09 switchblade but at the moment I am flying a orange Nomad and before the Switchblade I was flying a Flexifoil ION3 which I'm shore everybody would have heard me whinge about.
I will await my cuddle
Enough cuddles, I get disoriented if I feel too good for too long. Back to the complaining for me at least.
Who were the morons launching with kites pointed to the trees yesterday? Green and yellow Naish seagull, there were two of them or ridden by two different people? Spoke to one of them, a german-sounding woman, about this and she seemed to understand (after her kite nearly drifted into a tree) but then saw other incidents as I was on the water and packing up. One guy indicates he'll land someone's kite then runs over and grabs the trailing edge as it comes down. Nearly had a kite wrapped around him and full of wind. Please don't let your friends land or launch people unless they know what they're doing!
For any lurkers (I think the posters on this thread know what they're doing) who aren't sure, launch with your kite towards the water. If anything goes wrong you have more room downwind of the kite and it will pull you towards the water, rather than the trees, powerlines etc.
If you're really not sure, go back to school.
i can't access that site ..
anyone knows of a cheap printing place that does bulks for a discounted price?
Yep, i witnessed all of those offences and a few more.
There was also a rampant outbreak of tailgating last night and people getting effectively run up onto the beach by trailing riders not giving another rider space or time to transition and head back out.
As for the changing direction without looking... we're all guilty of that occasionally but if i glance back and give you a death stare and you still don't turn around, i WILL downloop and get the fark outta there by any means i deem necessary.
It was probably worse than usual firstly because of the directly onshore wind and because St Kilda was offshore. *sigh*
Saffer, I just love your sticker..........LMFAO, but it could work a treat. With the leaflet you might also have the local conventions on the back side. The word just has to get out, and if leaflets like these are required then I like it as long as it is delivered with some sort of a positive vibe and useful info. In general people do want to do the right thing, there will always be attention seeking jerks, but hopefully they will get over themselves when they realize that no body kn cares.............people don't admire others, just themselves.......as proof, look at the huge effort people make to video themselves on the water these days.........................its all one big narcissistic masturbatory exercise to validate ones own existence.............but we are nothing, nobody really cares, its just passing entertainment but one thing is for sure, you will die and no body really cares whether or not you managed that handle pass or big boost.
Long live kiting in the Melbourne cesspool.
