This morning looked the best for wind and I had no classes scheduled so I took 3 hours off and hit the lake.

Man ... punchy as hell - from being unable to get up on a plane to being driven downwind at warp speed and face planting

One jump though :ticking: went up on a good jump then got lifted by a gust - at the peak I was looking over the trees next to the road and down into the carpark of the clubhouse ... gotta do the trig on that

The funny thing though, was as I'd gone straight up and I was just hanging there waiting to go down and was prepared to falafel the kite around to control the vertical descent.

I was not expecting to fly BACKWARDS into the wind :wee: splashed down with a late redirect and popped up riding - that counts in my book :D

Sweet !

Now you know you can handle it next time and enjoy the ride ! :smug: ;-)

Sounds like the wind we get around here:bigok:

The backwards glide is scary when you don't expect it!

Yeah but the problem was next time the mega-gust hit, when I was already on a fast tack - I went rocketing off like warp factor, trying to ride it out ... ended up hitting a wave, catching a lip on the board and face-planting - several times as I spun and bounced

Gotta love the glide scared the crap outta me a few weeks ago. I guess its time to loop the big foils:dunno:

w00t! Good ol' GoPro for the battery life - had another 3Gb file that I missed cos of the whacky file-name formatting and only just found. Shame about the fogging ... and the jump looks lame on film :ticking:

"This file is private"

c'mon c'mon kami, don't be a tease

Hmm ... made it unlisted - that was the option I wanted, I think :D should work now!

very cool kami....... gotta love those jumps

Those trees behind the beach are 10-15 meters tall and I could see the houses behind them :o gutted it didn't come out on the film though ...