some of us that were hanging out before we left sunday.

Ok we made it home.
What a great weekend. I got to show a few people how to do a proper OBE. and get up smiling! It turne out the Rat Buggy was a bit to heavy for the sand. But the new PL worked great.
Thanks to every one who helped the kiddo strieghten out his lines and briddles. He had a blast as well.
And thanks to every one for making us all feel welcome. And to Todd for a great gathering Saturday night with the best door prizes.

Left WW around 4:30 pm, Sunday. In the morning I got to play with the Speed2 19m, just static flying... great workout. At about noon the wind started to shift direction every 5-10 minutes: on shore - off shore. It did that for more than an hour Very frustrating. At some moment there were two kites in the air, one flying on on-shore wind and the other off-shore... really weird. Around 3:00p.m. the wind got steadier off-shore and we started to buggy... for me it was a short session. At the time I left, there were 3 guys still buggying and 2-3 kites on the ground.
Great weekend. Nice to meet everybody. Hope we'll see each other again in the fall.

IS IT OCTOBER YET

loved the vids & pics

it's great when you fly with your friends,its great when your friends join you to far and distant lands[ wildwood]and make new friends .had some laughs,had some crashs, saw some bashes,dunk kites,eat some good food.saturday was the best.i said last october one day can make a great weekend and we had it. my friends from canada,ziggy/edmund thanks for traveling so far ,you guys have some sweet buggys,fran thanks for letting me join your group, the swarm of blokarts 7 we owned that beach. had a wicked pisser good time .left for home real early thats what i get for being someones kite #@%$#!.but how sweet is this,got to buggy at my beach and had a brand new6 meter rm jojo waiting for me at the beach today.big thanks to everyone who came it was a blast ha ha it makes me feel young.paul

Do we have a date for Oct. yet????:singing:

Got home mid-afternoon yesterday. Was a blast. Thanks everyone for coming out. Always fun to see that many kites and blokarts on the beach. Here are few pictures my wife took:

Thursday: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=michael.d.marcha...
Friday: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=michael.d.marcha...
Saturday: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=michael.d.marcha...

Thanks again everyone. See ya next time.

What a great time.

First off I'd like to thank our sponsors Don Swords of Power Kite Place and Chris of HQ Kites. Also a big thanks to all that donated goods towards the door prize event on Saturday night. It was good to see so many people show for up for the event, it can only grow from here.

I have a bunch of video footage to weed through so I'll start on that soon. Anyone having vintage footage of events past please U2U me and if you could mail them to me... I'll pick up the postage. To all sharing video and pictures, THANK YOU!! Especially Rian :P To all helping me with my project THANK YOU!! Let's cross our fingers.

Still wearing a perm-a-grin after the epic Saturday weather. Feel like I buggied my face off. What a great time with so many cool people enjoying the wind. A few pictures from the event:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris-topher/sets/7215762407856...

A special shout out to Todd for organizing door prizes and helping to feed our faces. Thank you! And Don - thank you for the hospitality. You are the 'godfather' of this event!

Cheers,

Chris

Wow, that was a great weekend. Thank you so much to everyone for the awesome hospitality. I can get painfully shy at times but it was great to meet so many new people, and I think I about quadrupled my kite knowledge in just two days. And a very special thank you to everyone who felt confident enough to let me try a buggy even though I subsequently got in everyone else's way and then rolled it over Now just to practice everything I learned over the summer get ready for fall. Can't wait to try again in October...

Had a great weekend and enjoyed hanging out with all of you. looking forward to doing it again in October.
Scott

Almost forgot- special thanks to Don and Todd for putting it all together and Chris / HQ kites for helping to sponsor

back to the real world
i too want to thank don for the room.
todd for the food and door prizes.
and chris from HQ kites for the prizes.
felt good to get back in my buggy again and see old freinds.

Just uploaded a bunch of pictures to Picasa, feel free to stroll around the other albums as well. Pictures taken by Sandy and Chad.


Link here

wildwood kite festival is this weekend:eureka:, any of yall attending?

Hey sofa king! Hope you had a good weekend at WW. I have to work and a baseball game this weekend so I won't be making the festival!

We need to hook up in DE and get some flying done. Put you in a buggy!

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Originally posted by shehatesmyhobbies Hey sofa king! Hope you had a good weekend at WW. I have to work and a baseball game this weekend so I won't be making the festival! We need to hook up in DE and get some flying done. Put you in a buggy!

yeah dude, i learned how to ride my atb on saturday, so i should have no problem with a buggy. thou i plan to get a board for the water long before i get a buggy

OK, I got all my pictures uploaded for you guys to check out. I've still got a bunch of video clips and helmet cam footage to go through. I'll try and get something put together here soon and get that up for you guys.

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Rian, great job on the pics dude! you rock!

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD Rian, great job on the pics dude! you rock!

Thanks Donnie! I never got to take any pictures at the previous Buggy Bashes. Seeing as I didn't do much flying at this one, I think I made up for that.

can't wait to see the vids. were you using a gopro? The pics are very vibrant,hope the video is also

After looking at the photos I now know why my back hurts so much.

Thanks for a great weekend. From helping me get my board together to Dean being so gracious to give me a place to sleep, it was a great experience. Cant wait for October and some more time in a buggy.

What a weekend! I don't know how fast, or how many miles, but I don't really care. I know I went about as fast as I wanted to, and covered more miles in the 3 days I rode, than I've ever done before. The icing on the cake was the magical time on Sunday evening, when it was just Don, Joe, Lad, and I riding, and the wind went from blowing out to sea, to blowing onshore, and we had the beach pretty much to ourselves. Got the best ride of the weekend then. Big thank you to Don for being a great sponsor and friend, Chris from HQ, for bringing the demo's, and being a great guy, Todd for being a great organizer and cook, and everyone that attended for making the weekend one to remember. I am trying to get a link to my photo's, when I figure it out, I'll post them.

Hopefully, here's that link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobalooie57/sets/72157624086780...

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD were you using a gopro? The pics are very vibrant,hope the video is also

No, those pictures are from my Canon digital camera. I've got video clips from the same camera and some footage from a V.I.O. POV 1.5 helmet cam. It's not HD, but still pretty good quality.

thats right I forgot you got the pov cam. I can't wait to see em dude. I'm jonesin so bad right now,I can't stand it. Might go down to the garage, sit in my bug and listen to it rain.

I hope the videos are as good as the pics. To bad you didn't get my first OBE it was far superior to the second!!!

Come Friday evening we will be set up down at Hamonassett beach for the kite fest there. Sat. Sun. No charge to get into the park this year. But camping is more than ever.

I was suprised to learn that blokarts are "herd sleepers " that will doze off while their pilots are doing other things.

you know you got some wind when the blokarts get tired

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Originally posted by rocfighter I hope the videos are as good as the pics. To bad you didn't get my first OBE it was far superior to the second!!!

I got a few people's OBE's and mishaps captured. I was thinking of trying to do some sort of blooper reel, but I don't think i'll have enough. I'll have to see what I can come up with.

Maybe others can send you stuff and put them all together for a fun compulation. I'd love to see mine and others!