I stumbled across this video today and I’m posting it up for 2 reasons. 1. I want to watch it later and I won’t loose the link 
and 2. It’s bloody awesome!
Some really good inspiration for some strapless tricks. I did note the guy is wearing a helmet too, this is probably a good idea as you are most likely to get a board in the bonce at some stage doing this! enjoy!
Looking to get into the exciting, fast paced & competitive sport of Kite Racing. Or maybe you just want to be out & planing on light wind days.
This board is great for anyone on a budget & new to Kite Racing.
Call Onni M: 0401 561 211Freshwater.
FOR SALE : 2013 NAISH PARK 10m – $1100
COLOUR: Blue and White
CONDITION: Excellent , still very crispy. Minor repair in the sheet cloth the size of a 5c Piece.
PRICE: $1100
COMES COMPLETE WITH;
-BAR AND LINES
-BAG
-LINE EXTENSIONS if requested
-Pump
BAR
2013 NAISH ATB BAR. Setup for freestyle and Wakestyle modifications to make it just that much sweeter a bar. NEAR NEW, only used 3 times.
Alex Harrison-Smith
0413403498
Hi all,
We’ve had a few requests recently to advertise kite related gear from a few of our local crew. I’ve always been a bit iffy on filling the website with for sale spam but I feel there is a need for it and it is something that Rob always did via his newsletter. To this end we’ve added the FOR SALE section. This will be a list of items that we’ve advertised so you can have a quick look if anyone local is wanting to shift some gear that you are in need of.
Unfortunately this being Australia and the interweb we must have a few rules.. (more rules!!)
Ok, now we are all on the right page. Send your ads to pete@kitesurfing.com.au and we’ll try and get it up. If volumes get WAY too high then we’ll look at something else. Below is a template you can copy and paste into an email..
Thanks
Pete
FOR SALE :
item title
DESCRIPTION:
your description goes here. year, model, age, condition, colour, what is it, size, damage anything and everything.
LOCATION
Where is it?
PRICE
let’s be realistic here
POST OR PICKUP
Hey we are all local aren’t we?
CONTACT
phone or email
I’ve finally gotten around to looking over the GoPro footage from the Torres crossing over the last week on my road trip and did a dead quick knock up video of some of the usable bits. It still brings back some good memories. I’m sure there is more footage around from other peoples cameras that hasn’t seen the light of day yet too, I really hope it eventually surfaces.
Anyway, hope you all enjoy it.
Been nearly a week since we’ve had any decent amount of wind over this way, so it’s nice to see a return of the summer seabreezes today. The windows were rattling from about 10am this morning — usually a good sign. Seabreeze says we’ll get around 20 knots from the South, usually an indicator of about 25 knots at the beach up and down Geraldton.
Water is a beautiful 24.5 degrees or so this time of year and a top air temperature of about 24 and hardly a cloud in sight. So, if you’re not anchored to a desk somewhere, it’d be a great afternoon for a kite in Gero.
Got away from the beach for a bit of an exploratory excursion into the proper Outback on a work assignment last week. If you haven’t been out that way, get your kit together and have a shot at it sometime. Not the best place in summer but I can imagine it’d be magic in winter. Last week it cracked 35+C every day — a full 10C hotter than the coastal communities. I can easily understand how the Pilbarra can crack 50C on the odd occasion. You have to really respect and admire how the Aboriginal people would have been able to survive in these conditions for 35,000 years before we rocked up with out air conditioning and 4WDs and water carted in from the cities. I couldn’t see any evidence of naturally-occurring water at any place we visited. Absolutely amazing.
If you have a Google account, you can view the gallery of photos here — otherwise, I thing you can tick a box somewhere and request permission to view the gallery.
https://plus.google.com/photos/102895279971442892442/albums/5946862432880283777?sort=1
Best wishes,
Rob
After a great mornings surf at the Golf course reef I’ve hit the road again and worked my way down through Batemans Bay and gone looking for some wind down at Moroya Heads. I’ve heard about this great surf break on the sea wall and wanted to check it out. In the end I’ve ended up at the a nice beach just south of the harbour entrance and there is about 12 knots. The sun is out and I’ve got nothing better to do so I’ve pumped up the 12m and gone for a play.
Super light conditions and its hard to stay upwind but its nice and sunny and quiet so I’m super happy. Found a good empty camp site for the night and was happy to pay the $20 for a quiet night and a hot shower.
Slow morning chilling and doing some reading and it’s back on the road again. Before I left I ran into these little fellas just chilling and wanting to say hi. It’s pretty hard going you know.
Heading south I’m taking the coast road and pulling off the freeway to check out some few spots. The road that goes via Bermagui along the coast is magic. Probably one of the best motorcycle roads I’ve found in the country if you are into that kind of thing. There is national park all along it so camping isn’t a problem and it crosses some really good flat water spots like (for the life of me I can’t find it again on the map. I’ll fill this in later but it looked great!!)
The original plan was to stop another day half way to Merimbula but then my phone starts bleeping with sms’s that the event starts on Thursday. Hmmmm, quick change of plans and I head all the way to Merimbula. There is a real lack of surf and wind so it wasn’t a real problem. I stopped at so many places and all I say was golden sand, clear blue sea and no waves..
Anyway. Not the best update in the world, I’m a day behind now. This really is a magic stretch of coast that I’ve never had the time to explore. I’ll be back I think to do more exploring!
It was a pretty laid back start to the trip if I have to be honest. The rain that has been belting down the coast wasn’t really motivating for a week long road trip. But I’ve got the week off work and I’m sure there is some wind, sun and surf SOMEWHERE!
A few hours south of Sydney and I decided to pull into Kiama to check out the wind. It’s almost always windy at the first beach you past coming into Kiama with the train tracks right up next to it. It’s still raining at this point and looking at the charts and map it doesn’t look too flash for the southerly thats coming in. Also giving it the once over inspection, I’ll be honest it isn’t the safest place for a solo kite in limited visibility. A quick check of the map shows the next really viable beach to kite is Werri beach, hey I’ve surfed there before.
This is the site that welcomed me to Werri beach! It’s not the nicest view to welcome you to a days kiting. Anyway, it seems windy lets hit it!
The south end of the beach simply doesn’t work in a southerly, its proper protected. with a bit of east it could actually work and there is a nice wave at the point that would work will on a good day. This chap was getting stuck into it.
I went out from about the middle of the beach. It’s really gusty and the surf is pretty wild. I wasn’t game enough to stick the go-pro on to be honest. Self launching with the go-pro on the front lines will go one of two ways, one of those sucks. There is a huge rip in the middle of the beach here and the current up the shore is pushing me upwind like crazy, this is really odd and I couldn’t tell how windy it really was. If I got out the back I was a bit underpowered on the 9 but close in I was powered up. There are some big sucky slabs hitting a sandbar half way out so I decided just to stick in the powered up section and play about a bit. It was quite fun but the current is really strong, at one point I’m going down the line on a wave with loads of power, I look at the shore and I’m not even moving! Really weird..
The rain eventually killed play after about an hour with the wind getting all fluffy and weird. Wish visibility down to about 100m I call it and head in.
One good safety tip I can give for days like these when it really is suspect is flick a message to someone that knows what your doing, tell them where you are and when you think you’ll be back. Thinking back to a few accidents anything can happen and no-one here is likely to notice.
Anyway, Onwards down to Mollymook for the night. The storms are still going so no real action in the arvo. It’s nice to get a snooze in.
Tuesday morning brings SUN and WAVES. Woohoo! for 1 hour this morning I had a 2-3ft glassy break all to myself! Now thats how it should be!
Here are some pics from today.
Good news. kitesurfing.com.au will be at Mambo this year! A little last minute decision on a road trip to seek out some secret spots on the way down and where possible we’ll be bringing you updates from Mambo. Sweet.
Just a real quick motivational poster..