Sunday arvo, Leighton beach...warm, sunny, about 17/18 knots. Great day on the water...
Had been practising jumps & was walking back up the beach past the dog exercise area. Some silly silly (I'm trying my best to be polite here...) punter on the beach asks me...
"Is that fun??"
How do you get back?
Is that a tent?
Is that just air (pointing to pump as I'm pumping up)?
Aren't you afraid you'll just get blown away?
How do you remember where they all go (pointing to lines as I'm running them out)?
I can water ski, so this should be pretty easy eh?
If I've come in from a good session I'm buzzing that much that I can't tell enough complete strangers how much fun it is...too much fun!!!....unbeelieevable fun!!
Very uncool.....I'm still a bit of a kook so I s'pose I'll grow out of it as I get better and grow more attitude. Like...how KN good am I....I'm a kitesurfer....and you are all a bunch of grinning idiots.
IMML (I make myself laugh)
J-P
But there are some idiots out there....
I had this hot blonde chick come up to me one time after I'd just come in and she say's "don't you get hot in that wetsuit?"
What a bimbo....
some hot chick asked if i could piggy back her 4 a while
isn't kitesurfing great?
(her question wasn't really stupid its just i havent ever been asked that before)
OK here's mine...
A guy comes up to me while I'm packing up and asks what pushes you along?
I explain its the wind, and that the kite acts like a sail.
He says 'No, no, what about those guys there?'. He points to a couple of guys still out. I tell him, 'like I said, just the wind'. He shakes his head like I'm full of s%# and walks off.
or u could have some stupid punter come up to u from behind when tryin to do up ur boardys when slighty overpowered and reefs on one side of ur bar tryin to help as u get launch and tryin to regain control of ur kite hahaha... i told him to .... off after he nearly killed me lol...
i still cant believe that i was asked if my kite was a tent, i thought he was asking if it was a 10... there were other kites out as well
Back in the early days of kiting, after watching for an hour, "Did you jump out of an aeroplane?"
Been asked plenty of times if it is FUN! I usually tell them NO! The pain is almost unbearable!
Good winds,
"do you have swivels on your board? because you seem to be able to go both ways!"
"is that a normal parachute? or is it a special one?"
And of coarse the classic, "is it hard?" My response is always, "it depends if your any good at it!"
I always love the ones that come up to you on a 7 knot day when your swearing and walking up the beach cause you can't get going and they say "looks like your having a lot of fun"
"is it like surfing? I can surf, would I be able to pick it up quickly?" my response "have you ever flown a kite?"
Love it also when an old digger (80+) comes up to you while your rigging, and starts re-designing the kite and board, "have you thought of having different shaped fins? I was an architect in the army, and know about dynamics. Are those lines very strong, I would imagine some thicker rope would be stronger! Have you thought of using some tubes instead of inflating it."
"can you hire these? looks like fun"
JB
How much does it cost?
How do you come back the other way?
You must have strong arms to hold it.
omg, this question I have been asked liek 3 times...
'How do you stop yourself from just floating up in the air?'
or
'why do you need to pump it up?'
or
'what do you do when you crash it?'
I had a 13.5 metre up and my girlfriend was rigging her 2m trainer and some woman comes up and says "are those kites the same size?"
i had a guy come to hold one side of the kite while i was pumping it up... he insisted on helping me and kept holding it even after i said it's attached and won't fly off...
A guy comes up to me and says "what’s stopping you just flying a way" I spend a good amount of time showing him how you can control the power. He still doesn’t get it so I tell him "its like a wing" and he says "but wings fly".
The question I get the most is "Is it dangerous?", no I wear a helmet because it make me look cool.
