Just flipping through the pages and noticed that you haven't had on up in a while. I'm getting much better every time I head out and your stories seem to really bring the stoke.

COOL! its daily shaggs!(i kinda like the way that sounds)that keeps the stoke!

i have been daily since about March! lost count !

nearing 20 days straight on the water. heres yesterday

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistor...

when the tides are good, i score land & water rides til sunset , water for the last 2 weeks or so. we have had premium wind with ideal side on and small wave <6ft.

heres the stoke part ...i'm first out and do 4-5mile run out and up the beach, checking all the locals (and the transient crowds) and soon as i can see into the port royal sound i turn back. the return leg with 20 + skyjack kite loop airs. i have had TWO depower mains break the casings in the past month!

oh the mackerel, i was hit by a flying mackerel. i see them all the time and wondered why i never got hit? well it happened , felt like a big wet towel smack in the shoulder.

and i got bite by a dog last tuesday while on the atb . got pics !

had a neck injury back in the winter so i have been more cautious esp. with rotations.

BUT last week finally went pain free, even with regular sessions, probably would have been quicker recovery if i just TRULY rested...but that didn't happen. nearly 5months! best therapy was wearing my helmet with a small lead weight on top.

and yesterday blew out ! the back roll trans with like 20 fails! i landed some magically nice ones, some with loops, some with out , totally stoked the neck is solid for more.

pics/VID from NABX and JIBE kinda got pushed back despite ample time. and so much hottub time, i can only do so much

thanks for the interest. gonna get with the pics and stuff soon !

:shocked2: That's a whole lot of kite time right there. I've been happy to be getting 1-2 sessions a week, but the summer no winds are here its been almost two weeks now. Sucks to here about your injuries though, one reason why I've been trying hard to stretch a few times a day. May not help in a huge bail, but maybe in the twisting and pulling section. That Mackerel must have been a huge shock man!!! Keep up the riding look forward to seeing those pics.

on the pics! found an old video from last fall on my wifes mac, see if i can do a quick clip on that.

keep it rollin' shaggS

another round(4) of evening rides of land and water

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistor...

yesterday , best since about tuesday or wednesday about 4hours most on the water,

best trick of the day... on the land board back roll trans. with a back kite loop, had to work up to that! did like 20 regular back roll trans. in row and on the pass the wind had dropped a fraction and filled it with the extra juice! and some unhooked wave on TT, raileys ! to blind is gonna need some flat water, the chop was killing me !

pheeling worthy now! GI tarantulas going into the grind! thanks AWOC(Kent) , thanks DINO

Damn that sounded tiring just reading that. I'm just feeling good hopping to toeside to pull off a clean transition. That only seems to happen when riding to my right transition to the left. If I try to hop toeside while riding to the left (my regular stance) I either freeze up and don't do it or I completely screw it up ending on my back. But I'm committed to work up to aerial tricks if it takes me ten years to get there:bigok:

practice improves symmetry, go slower, BALANCE and control . too fast and reflexes won't allow it , a few too many twisted pullovers and slams you'll realize speed doesn't help.
slower reinforces balance, once at speed with the same move you'll be relaxed and with timing, and control will be there and so will the kite!

i really have to force myself to practice both ways, esp weak side toeside stuff as well. and moving through aerials/or whatever adding more and more power takes time. i'm an old stiff guy and sometimes it takes me a while to warm up, including the body and the mind. first hour of action rarely contains the same stuff the last hour is filled with. its funny how my wife will come out with the camera for the first thirty minutes becomes bored, leaves and gets a bunch of nothing shots...and 3hours later couple miles down the beach doing the circus show for a bunch strangers. always warm up and always try new junk.... in the daily grind.

...one more time

4-7 yesterday, nice land water combo

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistor...

busted out a fresh harness!

thanks Lunchladiesman for the DAKNIE tabu harness, perfect!

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.as...


hit this east thing at 4-6PM coming after the 1:31AM blast. heavy current and all.

very cool temp with bath warm water. strange all cloudy and cool.

the best of recent and glad of it.

anybody else EAST coast get a piece ?

check the data 3-8pm

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.as...

best of 4 days with both ATB and WATER.

got about 10 hours on the tarantulas, the bearing race shims (plastics inserts) not doing so well. tabs on the inserts need to be fraction larger. minor and easily remedied. very happy with them.

really a bonus july better than last year.

flying tarantulas! oh the wife shows up wife the camera.

yes it continues...

here's low portside backroll, mostly in light air i do with a loop. this was tuesday i think.

this is actually my MAC practice session with the wifes mac, so more pics will be following.

she likes the hand pivot ones, ( she thinks i'm break dancing ) my shoulders don't if its weak!

into some JIBE pics , here's the HQ Matrix 15M giving nice trans. air float.

camp at JIBE

love this, JIBE . beautiful

JIBE , came form the south end up to to camp at black beards in light air , V13 pulled that session

nate GRABBING the RIGHT board!

Those are some wicked pictures. On Vancouver Island for a week, brought the ATB and Managed to sneak the 6m access without getting into trouble with the missus. I'm really crossing my fingers that I can get some riding on a real packed sand beach before I leave. The road outside the mother-in-laws is really really long and at a relative slope all pavement. I went for some nice rides in the evening. Not real fast, but super smooth and probably 3-4 minutes a run. No traffic, so I got some sweet carving. Have the PSI at 35ish right now, gonna up it closer to 50 and see how that feels. There's a ton of gravel logging roads around, but the grade and big potholes scare the hell out of me. :bigok: I was hoping I could get a water lesson down at lake Nitinat, but this trip was so unexpected, I won't get the chance to.

nice shaggs , more time on the board thats great. find a spot and wear it out!

pothole ...hop/jump!

Great pics Chad; keep 'em coming.

and for those interested, heres a video .
most of the session was out of frame , but was a beautiful day , i think its fall/winter session may have started in the rain and jump on the breeze that moved the system. trimmed it down from what was for the most part Just the view with me occasionally going by as you see.

the kite is a 13m ExA starkites, c- hybrid. on 140 sprint SK older series

i'm sure i logged this session some time ago and did not search the data for it but looks 15+MPH.

http://vimeo.com/26831677

thanks Angus , going for the multiple anyday now.

Thanks Phree,
I’m glad you got the footage you posted. I like to see the rider and the kite at the same time. I glean more that way.
Were you flying with webbed gloves on? Just looked that way to me.

no just regular sailing gloves, ronstan short finger

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistor...

saturday and sunday 3-7pm

both these days on the water.

16mile out and back leg sets me up for an almost 2 mile down winder...twice!

chased down a cat about 5 miles offshore as well ( 4 people on it so it was slow)gave out a couple of full bore sky jack mega loops for the crew.

posted an old video yesterday on previous. enjoy

monday works out nice ! 5-7pm

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.as...

swollen ocean and mad chop!

july burns on!

JIBE and local pics, for your viewing pleasure

one at a time ..

local

REST TODAY!?!


alas no.

check it

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.as...

JL 133 comes out ...soaked it right up. SK ExA 13m full on.

7-8pm

laid out for the weekend on a road trip to mountains, to pickup our happy camper kid after 2 weeks and a little partying at Belle Chere 2011.

best of the week so far on thursday... plenty too jump on the water4-6pm

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistor...

monday was light on V13/ATB 5-7pm

tuesday was a little better went with the fresh VII 13/ATB 5-7pm

wednesday was decent breeze but marginal for the water but perfect for SK ExA 13m on the ATB . water runs were out n back just enough to wash off without position loss. BUT the ATB was blasting real nice!

thursday whitecaps and falling tide made for ramp city! 4-6PM
best of the show... pulled off TWO backside 720's both on the port runs. first one caught me by surprise , second was full juice ! felt like more!. couple of fails, mouth full of ocean later and a flash thunderstorm closed me out.

and finally edited some NABX '11 footage. last of the Sony sport play video ( which got crushed at NABX) i will put it up this afternoon, and it has some folks in it, not that much ride stuff but gives the jest of the event, did not catch any of the party stuff just the playa, out n back kinda neat for getting a feel for it. got some PKF family in there check it when it drops.

NABX 2011 http://vimeo.com/27342758

out on a ride , jumped into the OUT n BACK run.

really hard to convey the distance. i pan back to buggy town and its a dot!

cool clouds zoom by during the kite pan. kite is a PL venom 13m / ATB is a GI 106 patrol.

nice time folks. only took 4 months . enjoy!