Went to Woquoit today. Typical North wind, it was extremely gusty and died throughout the day. But I still had a pretty good time, did one or two decent jumps, and had a blast on my skimboard once the wind died down enough.
Went to Woquoit today. Typical North wind, it was extremely gusty and died throughout the day. But I still had a pretty good time, did one or two decent jumps, and had a blast on my skimboard once the wind died down enough.
Slightly underpowered at Chappy today, because it was forcasted to pick up (but never did). That's OK though, because I tried lots of stuff unhooked. At one point I did this massive railey off a wave, I'm fairly surprised I landed it. Did a couple good hoochie glides too, and a couple unhooked backrolls. I chickened out of trying an indie glide or an unhooked frontroll, maybe next time.
Went to Wood Neck with Rob this afternoon, where the wind was totally weird. Since the wind was out of the North, we decided not to go to Chapin, since we knew it was going to die. Wind was in the low 20's when we got to the beach, so we both rigged 9s, then the wind continued to drop. Just as I was about to go into the beach to rig my 11, the wind suddenly blasted into the mid, or perhaps high, 20's with gusts easily in the 30's. During this period I did a fantastic jump, one of those jumps where everything goes right, and I had some serious air, serious hangtime, and landed light as a feather. That was about the only good thing about today's session though. I quickly got overpowered, went in and rigged my 7, but by that time the wind had dropped down again, so I was totally underpowered on my 7. I took one or two tacks on Rob's 9 before he went home, but by that time I could barely stay upwind on that!
Went to Wood Neck at 9 this morning and kited until 4. Wind was up and down all day, but overall I had an excellent time. I landed two frontrolls in the morning, and did some big boosts in the afternoon. On my last tack of the day, I tried doing a triple or quadruple backroll, but got disoriented, ended up looping the kite, and hit the water harder than I've ever hit before. It knocked the wind out of me, and I couldn't breathe for a while. Somehow during the confusion my kite inverted, or did something weird. I couldn't relaunch it, and it kept just looping in the power zone. I was about 1/2 mile offshore, so I ditched my board and plowed downwind until I got close enough to the beach to activate the Oh-Shit Handle. Once I got my kite and bar situated on the beach, I swam back out looking for my board. After about 15 minutes of padding around looking for it, I spotted it! Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. I'm fine and so is all my gear, so I'm calling it a successful kiting session. I'm glad I was at Wood Neck instead of Chappy.
Had a nice time tonight. Headed down to Woody Neck after work and kited for an hour and a half. There seemed to be a big wind shadow at Wood Neck, so rather than risk my kite falling out of the sky, I did a downwinder to Chappy and hitched a ride back to Wood Neck with Dave. Supposed to be windy tomorrow!
I didn't even go kiting today, but I need to post in my new bleg
Picture perfect conditions at Wood Neck tonight. Totally powered on my 9m, and had a blast. I attempted several triple backrolls and came very close to landing most of them. One person on the beach said one of the attempts was at least 20' in the air. Sweet. I also tried a variety of other stupid things, and spent a lot of time in the water.
Underpowered at Black's today, but it was just as well, because I only had an hour to kite before we went to Worcester for the weekend. Didn't really do anything. Didn't even stay upwind. Oh well. Should have brought my skimboard instead.
First time kiting since injuring my ankle two weeks ago. Took it easy, didn't really do any big jumps or anything. My ankle is still sore, but is mending slowly; I made sure to wrap it very tightly with an Ace bandage before going out to ride.
Went to Wood Neck and had a really nice session. Mostly just cruised around, did a few jumps, and successfully landed a one-footer. Unfortunately, I sprained my ankle pretty bad on another one-footer attempt, so I'll be sitting out for a while.
Also, this is the 52nd entry in the wind log, which means that I've averaged over 1 kiting session per week all year. And, I've gone kiting every single month except February.