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Jekyll Bound

flyguy0101 - 18-7-2012 at 07:12 AM

Heading south this afternoon for a couple of days at jekyll, Andrew and I along with Chad (lostfox) are heading down this afternoon to kite thursday-Sunday if anyone would like to join us. Winds are looking really good for sat and sun with late low tides. Cant wait for some tight lines tommorrow
Scott

PHREERIDER - 18-7-2012 at 08:33 AM

cool SCOTT, def want at least one day there. SAT/SUN if i can get going on some other projects sooner. def gonna have breeze! have fun!

BeamerBob - 18-7-2012 at 08:54 AM

Awesome weekend ahead for you guys. Make tracks!

shehatesmyhobbies - 18-7-2012 at 12:09 PM

Hope you guys get plenty of fly time! Get Chad on that board, he needs to get a kite in the air! Good times to you all!

BEC - 18-7-2012 at 03:18 PM

I didn't think it was possible but you suck and blow!.....Have a great time, hello to Andrew and Chad, and make sure he gets out on his buggy this time. :smilegrin:

I promise to save some money and make the trip next year.....remember...Old Guys Rule!!!

Show them up and post some pics and videos :bouncy::bouncy:

acampbell - 19-7-2012 at 04:14 AM

Hope you did not get mixed up in the local weather yesterday. We had tornado warnings and there was a water spout sighted on the river between the bridge and Jekyll Island. And some chick on a broomstick...

PHREERIDER - 20-7-2012 at 06:08 AM

caught a late afternoon session with the crew. weekend should deliver!

ANGUS, ANDREW,CHAD and SCOTT great to see you guys!

BeamerBob - 20-7-2012 at 10:07 AM

Talked to Angus yesterday while the crew was setting up on kite beach. For just a moment I almost felt like I was there. Hope you guys are having a good time!

flyguy0101 - 27-7-2012 at 06:23 AM

Trip report-
Well i thought i would share a little about our trip to jekyll-

Thursday- after unrolling kite on the beach and inflating had to immediately deflate androll up because of incoming storm. Phree showed up about the same time and we spent the next couple of hours at the picnic area to be out of the storm once it had passed we headed back to the beach to start flying Angus joined us as well. winds were maybe 10mphs which meant a lot of working the kite. My goal on this trip was to down size from my norml 19m and spend more time on the 13m and really fly the **** out of the kite fo power gneration and intent on many kiteloops. I was able to really tweak my transition jumps and foun a really smooth way of downlooping the kite on the redirect to keep the power "hot" and the movment smooth- was a lot of fun. Chad had his first ever go on a board and ws able to get it going without to any slams in the ground, i think he was happy with his progress but would have really benefittedfrom a little mor wind to bebettr powered up. Andrew took the 10m out and was quickly cranking out power sliding tranitions and smal jumps.

The next 4 days were almost exact repeats of the first with wind every day being between 9-11 which left us a lot of grass mowing i did try a couple of graps which i was sucessful with and aso tried a couple of rotations which quickly placed me on my A** really needed more wind to learn those but overall was a great trip and loooking forward to trying out my new liquid force kiteboard soon.
Scott

EDIT: sorry for the typos have a keyboard issue and got tired of editing- also should have a short video in a week or so

flyguy0101 - 27-7-2012 at 06:30 AM

Couple of pics from friendly folks on the beach:








Gotta love this beach- jekyll in july and very limited crowds

BeamerBob - 27-7-2012 at 07:48 AM

It took me awhile to figure out the 2 pilot 3 kite quandary in the last pic! Where's Waldo?

rocfighter - 27-7-2012 at 11:08 AM

Nice pictures. Even though the wind wasn't what you wanted. It's better than working right?

BEC - 27-7-2012 at 12:18 PM

Nice Pics Scott! Other then the wind it seems like you had fun. WOW! Look at that beach not a person on it.. As Rocfighter said.....It's better then work!

FACT... almost everything except a root canal and kidney stones are better then work.

Talk soon and have a great weekend.

soliver - 27-7-2012 at 03:16 PM

Nice!!! I'm Jekyll bound the first of October, and already prepping :smilegrin: