We had a corker of a lightning show last night in Sydney and I had a front row seat on the Manly ferry at about 10pm to watch it over the harbour. Wondered if the phone would catch it on video and nailed this perfect vid of a strike over the Eastern Suburbs. Hope no hipsters got zapped on this one!
Category: Videos
Hawaii : A kitesurfing short film
This little short movie is a great watch. Some wonderful photography and some envious conditions. Pull up some popcorn and a beer and turn up the dial on the tunes.
How NOT to play with kites..
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This video was just shared about on facebook by the SUCK guys. It shows what ‘seemed’ like a good idea at the time but ended – almost predictably – in near disaster. From what I can read into this they attached a long shoe lace from the boat to the harness and proceeded to fly things about to get some great lift. It is actually a wonderful example of apparent wind effects with flying the kite about.
Anyway, the shoe lace snaps at about 20ft up, the shock has stopped the guy completing his loop (which would have made things a bit softer) and he hits the deck like a sack of spuds. Good job this wasn’t over land!
Anyway. watch, enjoy, LEARN..
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LF “Be the Envy tour” demo day @ Kurnell
James from Alliance Kite Gear sent me this video from the long weekends action at Kurnell. Looks like the the wind was light but lots of fun was had. Sorry we couldn’t make it over to do a web report. keep us updated for the next one!
Old Bar long weekend video
Here is a video from the Sydney crew that hit up Old Bar for the October long weekend. Excellent bit of work and looks like lots of nice waves and wind. Jealous….
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Jon ‘Two Fin’ Turner looks like he has perfected the video plane and took it out on what can only be described as a beautiful day. He’s launched from the top of Long Reef headland and flown around a few beaches filming the sups. Magical.
There is a good flight over Fishermans Beach showing where all the rocks are too, I’m pretty sure at one point you can see some of Jon’s missing fins on the reef!
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A cool video showing the incredible speed of the 72ft Americas Cup boat Oracle up on Foils. This video does make me question a few things. Why wasn’t Kai on a race board or a foil board for the race? Maybe he’d win!! What’s your view?
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Jon has made his best video flight to date with perfect weather over Dee Why. Great views and good work Jon.
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Hi All,
As one of the team members of the Pink Torres Crossing Team I’m really proud to post up this final full edit cut of our expedition diary filmed by Josh and Frankie of http://www.harrymmiller.com.au. Just watching this back brings back lots of great memories of the trip and a few spooky shots of me! If you ever get thrown a bone to jump on something you would never normally do don’t think about it, just take it, you can never know where it may lead. Thanks Alex..
A big Shout out to Geoff from 5th element expeditions also, Geoff is a machine and will be doing a solo Antarctic crossing at the end of the year with kites! Good luck Geoff.
www.torrescrossing.com
www.facebook.com/torrescrossing
http://www.5thelementexpeditions.com/pink-polar/
THE HISTORY OF KITE SURFING
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I received this link to a movie on YouTube that discusses where kite surfing all started back in the day. Lots of now familiar faces who were pioneers. It’s an hour-long so probably not good to sit and watch in the office but if you have time it is well worth a watch. The first 10 minutes provides some good laughs just looking at the old skool equipment and kites. I’m thinking about giving waterskis a go now after watching this just for fun, who’s in?
RAD!
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