Big Earl
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Where is the craziest place you have flown
I would love to hear the stories of your crazy exploites! exotic, or unlikely places, crazy things you have done with kites etc.
This thread should not in any way be filled with good ideas or safety minded goody two shoes stuff. I want to hear the wild, stupid, once in a
lifetime stories, if they are smart and safe so be it.
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Kamikuza
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Flew my DIY-stunt kite down a side street in the middle of the city once - Bedford Row in Christchurch, NZ  worked fine till it went on the roof of a carparking building and got stuck behind the lip ... after a bit of
pulling & flapping of lines, I got it free again :D
Yeah... I got a kite. Or two...
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Big Earl
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I buggied in Cardinal stadiums parking lot, until I got kicked out by security. I even got one of the security gaurds to go out flying a couple times
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shuag
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Downtown Boise Idaho next to a power substation:o:o:o (i.e. lots of high voltage power lines) during a winter blizzard at night. If it wasn't for the
streetlights reflection off of the snow and the headlamp I was wearing I wouldn't have been able to see anything.
It sure was fun getting drug through the snow in 20 mph winds though... . .. .
the winds were good I couldn't resist
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action jackson
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Buggied on the roof of the sandpiper hotel in Galveston, tx. It was blowing 40+ with a 2.8m npw!..........aj
Ocean Rodeo Razors 8,10,12
Ocean Rodeo 5\'11 Surf series
PL Arcs 6,15m orange Phantoms 10,19m Venom 16m proto scorp ,synergy 12,
NPW\'s .5,2.8,6.9 and 15m skytex
145x49 crazy fly,Decay 142x42,aboards z- series 135x40
Pl xr+ buggy , Pl Kitecat hull #5
www.kittyhawkkites.com
www.wavesvillage.com
www.thekitexpo.com
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PHREERIDER
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Mood: chilled....but ready to SAIL!
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i kite in the dark ....at night year round
no lights , the moon makes it supreme.
ipod and isolation for hours ATB or COYOTES
SOME RIDES MAY HAVE BEEN NEAR THE 80+ MILE MARK IN A 4-5 HOUR RIDE
100's OF SESSIONS. ....the meteors holy s)(it!
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Kamikuza
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I'm going to have to give that a crack, Phree!
Yeah... I got a kite. Or two...
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kitejumper
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shuag
Downtown Boise Idaho next to a power substation:o:o:o during a winter blizzard at night. If it wasn't for the streetlights reflection off of the snow
and the headlamp I was wearing I wouldn't have been able to see anything.
It sure was fun getting drug through the snow in 20 mph winds though... . .. .
the winds were good I couldn't resist |
now that sounds like fun!! but not downtown--a field instead
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markite
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Quite a few years back when I did a lot of kite demos I took a small group to do a demo in a prison for an activity day. Some of the guys were mildly
interested - most weren't until I said in a good wind I could easily clear that wall with a big jump - they all wanted to try but the guards just let
me demo and would not let them get their hands on the bigger kites (or the kite flyer).
Mark Groshens NAPKA KC 13
WindSpeed kites & design - Canada
Peter Lynn Arcs: Charger2 22.5 +18 + 15 + 6.5, Charger I 6, Scorpion 16 + 10, Phantom II 12 + 9, Orig Phantom 9 + 6, Synergy 10 + 8, F 1200, S 840
Ocean Rodeo: Flite 17 + 12, Rise 13 + 10 + 7, Razor 9 + 6
Foils: PL Leopards and Lynx, Airea Raptors, some PL Reactor IIs + IIIs, Libre Spirits, Cross Kite Sonics, Ozone Flow
Peter Lynn Kite Cat for cruising the lakes
buggies: PL XR+, Cameleon Pagona, custom bigfoot, PL Bigfoot, custom ice buggy
Boards: 2 custom directionals, O.R Surf series 6-3 and 5-11, Mako Duke, Mako Skinny, Mako 140 Wide, Mako 150 Wide, Mako King, Brunotti
lots of old school skis, snowboard
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william_rx7
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Great stories.
Snowkiting at night with and iPod on really is awesome.
If you can coordinate with a full moon, it's even better. Here in S. Ontario, you only get wind, snow and moon maybe 1 night a season, maybe.
Not really crazy, just uncommon.
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geokite
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Followed Jeff Howard and others up what became know as "Jeff's Nipple" (a rhyolite plug mountain east of El Mirage Dry Lake bed). Rotor effect was
just out of reach on our 2-3m kites in 20-25 wind, but only came to mind when we got to the top. Then used the kite as brake the entire way down the
steep hill to keep from going out of control.
Steve Bateman
Arcs: P:6,9,12m; Syn:8,10,12 V2:8m
PL Monster Buggy, 1994 Flexi buggy (original owner)
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Todd
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Pittsburgh PA at the fountain; Wind was brutal! 
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jellis
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Next to the Fire Hole river in Yellowstone. On the grounds of the San Jacinto Monument, Texas. On the Pismo,CA dunes before it was banded. Bolsa Chica
State park in LA before it was banded. Little Sahara State Park in Oklahoma. On the shore of Walker Lake very near Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot NV.
AJ it wasn't that you buggied the roof of the Sand Piper, in your condition we were amazed you got a Full Race up two long flights of stairs to the
roof.
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william_rx7
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On the shore of Walker Lake very near Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot NV.
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I drove by that spot a few years ago, incredible.
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