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Mood: Living to kitesurf :-)

25th May 2004
Kite surfing: Golf Course Car Park, Borth
Wind Direction: NW
Wind Stength: 12kts
Surf / Sea State: Flattish
Air Temperature: 19
Sea Temperature: 12
Weather: Sun
Max Speed:
Distance Covered:

Al very kindly offered to help get the kite up, and checked my setting up too. After a false start we got it flying and I skipped gingerly into the drink...

Had a good 15 mins or so body dragging, jolly good fun, although I'm still being very conservative with the kite movements.

The kite came down on the water and I couldn't get the dam thing to relaunch. Every time it tried to take off it would crash down again... I'm finding this kite very hard to control compared to the ones I used before.

Eventually I was drifting too close to some fishermen so decided to take the leash, let go, and do a bar packdown. Except I couldn't do as I'd learned as either the ball attachment system was back to front/upside down or just plain wierd. So I went back to the bar...only now all the lines had wrapped around it and I had no control whatsoever over the b*****d kite. Mental note to self - BUY KNIFE!

I was totally stuck, didn't know what to do next, but luckily a kind fisherman came over and sat on the kite so I could run over and make it safe.

Totally crap again, but I guess it's a learning process.

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