Hey everyone...just joined up.. from reading things that have been posted, I must say that the majority of you seem like really cool people. I'm a retired Army SFC and a windsurfer since 1987. I am land locked in the USA now so I took up power kiting and love it! These damn kites are unreal and have opened up a wealth of fun for me here in the Mid-west. Look forward to talking with you.....

Tony Wood
Warrenton, Missouri
PL Comp XR
GI Patrol
Rush Pro III 3.5
Beamer TSR 5.0
(and I'm going to order a PL Core 6.7 this week)

Hello, are there any good kite flying area over in Warrenton? The one good public field here in St. Peters gets rented out a lot to soccer

How far are you from Springfield? There's a couple of us here if you want to fly sometime

Welcome, This is a good group. My guess is you will be wanting to get ready for snowkiting too. You will find several prior service on here from multiple countries too.

Heh, we're about 3 1/2 hours from Springfield.

Welcome.... you are gonna love that core!!! real sweet kite!!!

Welcome!

Thanks for the welcomes! Flummoxed and flyjump there is a spot I found out here in Warrenton. It's the Warrenton Athletic Complex (Hence forth known as WAC). Here's a review I wrote on WindfunSTL (Group of Windsurfers and Kiters based primarily in St. Louis):

Took my Kite buggy and Rush III Pro 3.5 out to the Warrenton Athletic Complex this afternoon and had a blast. First time I've tried this
place and it turned out to be excellent with smooth grass soccer fields and a fairly wide open location. I had the whole place to
myself and got in some pretty good speed runs. I don't know if cops will mess with you there. I can't see why but I have not had any
trouble yet. The ground is smooth enough for mountain boards as well. To get there take exit 193 off 70 and go North on HWY 47 for around 4 miles. Turn right onto Hickory/Warrenton Athletic Complex Dr. and it will be on your right about a mile down. I used the big field outside of the fenced in fields and that will be on your left as you pull in. +38° 51' 18.30", -91° 7' 2.75" on Google maps which does not show the place in its developed state as it is now.

Welcome and thanks for your service aircav!

HOOAH!

Welcome Tony! Many good days of wind at your back!

greetings

Welcome and thank you for your service

My service to our country and its entire people was my honor/privilege and I do thank you all. If they called me back I would go again but I would sure as hell break down my GI Patrol and pack it with at least a couple of kites in the duffle bag because they do have great wind in Iraq and these other God forsaken places we have to go!!

Tony, good to see you here. Welcome indeed.

Welcome aboard. You will love your new PL kite their gear is really top notch!

Tony, welcome to the PKF Bro'. And "thank you" for serving. Glad that you found this awesome sport,i'm sure you will be a great contributor to the forum.

What Weldngod said.

Welcome Tony, you'll really like the forum. Lots of nice people and a great place for lots of info.

Rob.

I might be in that area sometime this fall/winter. If so we should meet up

Thanks again everyone....Let me know when if you're around flyjump..

I was stationed at Eustis for 8 years Weldngod. Had an Apartment near post on Warwick BLVD then moved to a house out in Gloucester. I used to windsurf at Ft. Monroe, Willougby Bay, Gloucester Point, and a couple of places on the James. I sure miss the water.

dang dude! Small world isn't it. You deffo are from around here Do you ever come back to VA?

I sure do. My Mom and a few other family members still live in Nelson County (Near Wintergreen Ski resort) and I visit when I get a chance. Haven't been back to Tidewater for a couple of years but hope to get there this spring.

I will get up w/ you before then , and if you come to town, I got plenty of kites to fly. And a sweet spot to fly at. It would be an honor to fly w/ you dude.


wait till you try the KYTBYK , it is bad a$$..:wee::wee::wee:

Sounds like it would be a blast! Can't wait!