You know you are addicted when .........
your dear old mum knits you two new kite-bar bags for your birthday.
(OK! They're socks, but I'm still not gonna wear em!)
when its sunday morning and you are already looking to see if it could be good next saturday.
When you negotiate for a two hour late break, and you rush like mad to the river, pump up like mad kite like mad for 1 hour and return to work salty, crusty and smelling of seaweed.
Why did I get such a booooring windless day today?
Because all my pre-kiting passions feel sooo boooring since I am addicted to kiting...
When you undertake the role of "staff christmas party organiser", and organise it at Rottnest because its always windy at Rottnest
When theres no wind yet you constantly update even though theres no wind forecasted.
When you cease working in construction to take up a garbage run at half the pay because the hours worked will allow you to kite every day.
When you relise you may just be single for the rest of your life when you relise that the wind is way more important then stroking some chicks ego. argh the wind is my mistress me heartys
probably been said b4 but WTF
..you know you are addicted when .......
you get on a packed train, have to stand, but then realise that 2 handles pulled close together are not that different to your bar and you go kiting..on the inside!!!
you randomly during writing an essay do a trick on your swivel chair that you have been working on/get nailed and cant get enough of.
lap top passing to blind usually pulls the plug out the wall unfortunately 
but seriously, who doesn't do that?
You look down and instead of tan lines from socks on your feet, you've got footstrap lines 
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Originally posted by nebbian
You look down and instead of tan lines from socks on your feet, you've got footstrap lines
). But then thought it might put people off since I had cosmetic surgery to make them webbed for faster board recovery...
* You defer surgery, preferably until next winter, because it would interfere with kiting... even then you'll probably miss a day or two
* You buy a new vehicle whose sole purpose is to transport your increasing accumulation of kiting gear
* You spend calm weekends in a futile vigil on Seabreeze in the vain hope that the forecast is wrong
* You drive down to the beach to check if Seabreeze is wrong too, even though its topping out at 5 knots.
* You hate jellies
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Originally posted by 511kev
your kit never leaves your car.
the rash you used to get from your waist harness has turned into permanent callouses on your stomach
You fall in love with a board called "Shifty."
Reli man, you need some gloves, or use a lubricant please.
when u sell everything u you own .. including a lovely 42" plasma to move back to perth from new zealand just to get the fremantle doctor... damn the wind better b good there.
Even though your good mate is a keen kitesurfer the fact that he is without a car for the weekend means you will have to pick him up. You decide that the extra half an hour involved in doing so would be better spent on the water and go on the sly. ( then deny ever going )
Hi everyone, my 1st post and its a biggy, enjoy....... from England.
YOU KNOW YOUR A KITESURFER WHEN....
1) you replace broken shoelaces, hang hammocks and clothes with the extra lengths of Q-line you keep in the back of the car.
2) you develop a sudden affection for wind chimes and hang them strategically around your house so the different tones alert you to wind direction and speed.
3) above chimes awaken you at ungodly morning hours and you sprint to the beach without so much as a kiss to your girl or your morning coffee.
4) for the first time in your life you have a "six pack" of abs and very defined quadriceps.
5) stainless steel o rings, snap shackles, and clam cleats are your idea of the "family jewels".
6) you can never have enough rope.
7) you carry a spare piece of leader line and, when bored at parties or on the plane or in line at the bank you practice all kinds of intricate knots
8)you have no less than 327 personal "wind meters" that you glance at every day on your commute. These include but are not limited to flags, trees, peeling billboard ads, etc etc
9) every sunset session is a "religious experience".
10) your local shoe-repair guy knows you on a first name basis and has operated on your harness 7 times in that many months and you have pretty much convinced HIM to go buy a kite.
11) you have developed intricate "systems" for everything from loading the car to laying your lines to cinching the harness to pulling out bladders and you mentally time yourself every run through so as to be a lean, mean, kiting machine and not lose one precious second of time on the water.
12) you are absolutely sure that you will be able to kitesurf until you are 83...and you'll be jumping higher each year.
13) you have reccurring fantasies of somehow becoming one of those lucky *******s that gets to ride all the prototype gear and go on all the photo shoots.
14) you find it VERY, VERY difficult to get psyched to go play racquetball or ride your bike or go scuba diving..."I mean, what if it starts to blow and I'm far from my kite!!??"
15) you're convinced that the human race has finally begun to evolve again and that WE are leading the pack!
16) work functions are distracting you from constantly watching tree tops to see how much wind there is even though you cant get to the beach.
17) Every sport you see is compared to kitesurfing.
18 You argue with non-kitesurfing friends that kitesurfing is better then everything.
19) You try so hard to get friends involved, but when it comes down to it, it costs so much and they don't understand that spending $2000 bucks will re-define fun in their life...and you still can't believe that a few, although are just as fit as you, have no interest whatsoever in kitesurfing. They would rather spend all there money on junk.
20) When you have no wind or are bored, you will sit down and study kitesurfing movies. But when non kitesurfing friends come around they can't watch it for 5 seconds and you can't understand why...maybe they are jealous?
21) Your living space is shrinking due to the pile of gear in the middle of your house where the TV, VCR, dinner table and couch used to be before selling them to buy another kite.
22) Your control bar is used for hanging coats - when you're not hanging from it...
23) You have a massive stupid grin on your face whilst hosing the kite down with water in the garden after an epic session.
24) Afterwards you think a clean kite sat in your garden drying off is a beautiful sight, while you're girlfriend thinks you've lost your marbles and wished you treated everything else in the house with the same care and attention - especially her.
25) Your kite buddies have replaced your lifelong high-school/college buddies.
26) You find yourself daydreaming about kitesurfing at all hours of the day
27) You}ve only stayed at home for 3 weekends in a 5 month period, 2 of which were because of weddings or birthday parties.
28 You are constantly trying to figure out the wind speed in anything you see, movies, magazines, "wild on" shows in Belize, pictures. Saying, "look, there's wind when this was filmed". Your girlfriend gives you weird looks.
29) You are constantly asking friends who went to beaches etc, who don't kitesurf, if it was windy when you weren't there because you wanted desperately to know if you've missed any kitesurfing...
30) Have replaced dreaming of hot blondes, to landing quadruple back rolls in Hawaii.
31) Add up what you have spent on kite gear over the years to find out you could have bought a car already.
32) Everyone close to you reports how the wind was where they were automatically, you don}t even have to ask them anymore.
33) you have gotten at least 2 buddies on to the sport, your brother, parents or cousins...
34) your grandma knows that scattered whitecaps begin to form at 8 knots.
35) you don't get along with pelicans anymore because they have an uncanny knack for pooping on your kite...
36) you have an epic love/hate relationship with the god of wind and have considered making sacrifices
37) If the wind is blowing you can work miracles on broken equipment with chewing gum, duck tape, extra 600 lb Qline and zip ties.
3 You carry a 30 lb. bag of line and rope spools, rings, shackles, leader line, everywhere you go.
39) when you won't make plans to do ANYTHING else because it MIGHT be windy...!
40) When not at the beach you find yourself looking at windcharts like ten of them - then when you're done about five minutes later you're back in there just to see if the wind change a knot.
41) you constanly check 20+ websites and forums just to get the latest scoop on equipment, new video downloads and pictures or just to hear some guy on the other side of the world flew into a tree and broke his back. reply to everything that gives you a kick and if not finding a reason to reply even though you have know idea what's going on. Then when all else
fails making up posts so when you return to check it in 5 minutes to see if someone has replied.
42) you dream about kitesurfing and wake up drooling.
43) when you're on a crowded beach on a hot sunny day and everyone else is looking at half-naked girls on the beach but you're too busy looking at the lovely white caps in the water.....
44) your girlfriend has to sit in the back seat when driving because your board is on the passenger seat that's reclined - and they both can't fit in the front
45) Every road trip you take you are spying for new kitesurf spots relatively close to home: lakes, rivers, open fields for kitesnowboarding or mountain boarding in the winter
46) You take your gear with you on every romantic vacation or getaway (if your girl hasn't left you by now)
47) You have bought a couple women's wetsuits so your girlfriend has no excuse not to try it
48 You have asked all your friends to see if their grandma has a sewing machine
49) You would rule if Jeopardy ever had a category for "sail makers supply"
50) Your browser's "favorites" are filled with pages of endless wind meter links and kitesurfing sites..
Andyex; well that could've saved us about 17 pages!!!!
My recent revelation that i may be addicted;
it just dawned on me that my first born and my first kite are the same age......can't wait till he can join me on the water. ( i mean my boy... my kite spends too much time on the water already 
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I RSVP'd to a wedding last week on the condition that I could bring my kites. The bride to be suggested a couple of good spots nearby.
You know you got it bad [}:)] when... you check the wind speed of the ceiling fan in your hotel room at 2.6 knots, then run out to see if you can purchase a 28 meter kite!!
and you know the water comes out of the bathroom tap at 4.2 knots!!!
