112. You kited overpowered for 3 hours, thinking that the high winds will last just a few more minutes.
113. You are overpowered, but know that if you go back and get a smaller kite the wind will die.
114. You were overpowered, emergency landed, packed and went to get a smaller kite. The smaller kite was then too small. After packing it and launching the bigger kite again, the wind died for good. Should have kited during that last hour, instead of just switching kites.
115. You seriously considered asking for permission from a cemetery to kite on their land, at the top of a hill.
116. You know right away that your session is over before it started if you see 2 kites flying in the distance, because there is barely enough space for 1 kite, 2 is a crowd, and 3 is asking for it. So when you leave home you don't tell anyone and hope that nobody will show up.
117. You follow up on scouting trips with research, phone calls, letters and chocolate gifts, asking/begging for permission to ride.
118. You make sure you have your smartphone handy when you kite, so you can read the news or a book during lulls, waiting for the next "gust" to relaunch your kite. You even type emails and call people fully hooked in.
119. You pack enough food and hot drinks, knowing it might take a while for the wind to come back.
120. You have plenty of time to reflect on how beautiful your kite looks on the snow, with the sky, clouds, trees, birds and all that.
121. The forecast is abysmal but you go there anyway just in case.
122. Your favorite if not only way of playing golf is with a kite and skis. While you're at it, you find out why sand traps are called traps.
123. You repeatedly fantasized about how much you'd like to chop off ALL the trees from that particular spot, to make it so much better.
124. You wish you had stayed home instead.
125. Your hope just won't die.

All very good br44

120, 121, 123,124,125 some of my favorites.

126. You go to get your buggy out at the end of the summer season for your first fall session and find it has cobwebs on it.

Seriously people ... Cobwebs, I mean seriously.

southern spiders are probably big poisonous ones maybe

Not big, but poisonous, yes. Black Widows are a problem in the south.

my back yard and buggy shed has spiders that can hang w/ anyone's....beach spiders do not get proper respect

127. Flying your kite backwards out of the tree you snagged is just another part of your skill set.

128 you start with a 3.2 vapor and the wind dies...then put up the 6.5 vapor and forget the go pro is rolling and scream like a little girl when the 17mph gust hits.

Sorry if it's already in the list but dodging golf balls was new to me today in the jankiest of winds...:o

Quote: Originally posted by soliver

Quote: Originally posted by Windstruck   48. You frequently see Parks and Rec groundskeepers in county-issued pickup trucks pull up alongside a public field you are buggying on, stand there looking at you, pull out their mobile phone and talk while still watching you, and then get back in their trucks and drive away. (a.k.a., when is the foot going to drop?). @ abkayak - hey! Some of us are devoted to our bed sheets! :D For me this scenario always plays out with the Parks and Rec. guy saying something like (North Ga country accent inferred) "Well, I asked my boss and he said the rules say no motorized vehicles on the field and you aint got no motor but the wind... thats cool man." @abkayak; being and inland kiter and a lover of Cores, Reactors, and glorified bedsheets I fail to understand your meaning... or this statement is very specifically pointed

Unfortunately sometimes the Park Rangers refuse to believe reality and issue you a citation for a motorized vehicle and dangerous operation, when the buggy has not operated because of the Janky winds
Hopefully my appeal comes back soon and I can start using half of my regular locations again.

129 -you go for a buggy session and when you come home the pedometer says 5 miles but the GPS on the buggy says 200 ft.

130 -you start a session with 10 soccer fields to yourself and end with enough space to only hit 5 kids when you swing a cat.

You consider a place like this a great find.

You guys have no idea what it's like trying to get 20#'s of wet sand out of a kite...This will be a 2 day affair minimum...i put 3 in the ocean today just to ride an an hour and a half...2 obe's upside down once...i hate offshore winds but you gotta do what you gotta do..so know it gets "janky" here if your commited...thought I was gonna have to go in the ocean waist deep to bring my blade back to shore...so there is that

Hey Randy, hope you have a handicap sticker to fly there

I think I can fly in it, just can't park there. :D Sounds like you had an "interesting" day. I hope never to find out about getting wet sand out of a kite.

Quote: Originally posted by abkayak

You guys have no idea what it's like trying to get 20#'s of wet sand out of a kite...This will be a 2 day affair minimum...i put 3 in the ocean today just to ride an an hour and a half...2 obe's upside down once...i hate offshore winds but you gotta do what you gotta do..so know it gets "janky" here if your commited...thought I was gonna have to go in the ocean waist deep to bring my blade back to shore...so there is that Hey Randy, hope you have a handicap sticker to fly there

So that's what those side zippers and holes in my buggy seat are for? Glad you didn't lose your kite. I've done the accidentally filled a FB with snow, but that's not the same.

Actually removing wet sand should be quite straightforward, as long as you first wait for a couple of days, to allow the sand to dry.

Takes longer than you think for 50lbs of sand seaweed and the occasional small creatures to dry, and then there's the smell...

blades and bullets also have the mesh which complicates removal...alot...each cell has to be worked multiple times by hand and a 200mph blower helps..on that note i cant tell you how great the Soulfly is...great kite finished that one in an 10 mins once the sand was dry