Thursday evening I replaced the lines on my kite, the new addition should cope with over 360kg of weight, over 4 times my actuall weight. So this weekend, after the wait for the weather to clear up on Saturday, a few friends and I headed to the beach.
The tide was just on its way out at about 6.30pm Saturday evening, so there was little room or hard enough sand to get the buggy or boards up and running, so while the other guys were just getting some practice in controlling their kites I decided to test out the new lines and try some jumping.
The wind picked up a little and was gusting at 12 mhp, with a little working the Ozone Flow I have pulls quite a bit and I’ve been told that running in the opposite direction to the kite when moving it through the centre of the gust will create lift, so that’s what I did.
The first few attempts just saw me being dragged on my feet about 4 meters across the sand, untill I got a feel for it and then attempted some jumping. I eventually managed a few jumps with the highest being 4ft, and thats when my infinite wisdom kicked in asking Bekka to take some photographs of my jumps to post on the blog.
Right at that moment I really set myself up, positioning the kite ready, swooping it round, feeling the power as it hit the centre of the wind, only to loose my footing and faceplant the sand. Thankfully having asked her to take photos, bekka was there to photograph my face hitting the sand.
