when you've checked ebay to see what kites are on , and get dissapointed to see there is nothing new added since your last check the night before.....
* you can't be bothered to celebrate new years eve because you're too tired from kiting all day long. instead you opt to have a cold beer and go to sleep....you don't care everyone else tells you you're missing out because you're basking in the warm tiredness of a great kite session.
* you leave your gear when going to visit friends for a weekend because you saw red arrows on seabreeze..only for the wind to blow 20kts so you have to borrow gear from people, and when they take it back you sit on the sand spit watching and telling yourself you'll never travel without it again whilst meditating and taking slow deep breaths to calm yourself haha
* when you're watching movies and it's windy on the film the though creeps into your mind of "I wonder how strong the wind is and if I could kite"
.............and so it goes on and on.........
when you get a smile on your face from untangling extension cords because it reminds you of kite-ing.
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* you can't be bothered to celebrate new years eve because you're too tired from kiting all day long. instead you opt to have a cold beer and go to sleep....you don't care everyone else tells you you're missing out because you're basking in the warm tiredness of a great kite session.
im still on here waiting for a new topic at 1.10am ... i need wind .. and another job :)
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When youve just fractured/dislocated your shoulder kiting and your wife and two kids are at the emergency ward bedside as you try to conceal the pain and gloss over the gravity of the only income for your family lost when the doctor tries to settle you down with some polite banter and asks if you will continue to kite. Your family are all ears, your wife chuckles indicating the obsurdness of such a seemingly obvious question. You realise the implications of your answer only too late "I just can't"
...bit more careful now though 
when you break 3 ribs rip muscles to pieces and still think morphine will be enough to hold of the pain so u can go out this sunday for the 25knot NW with 8 foot swell [}:)]
When some breaks into your house and the first thing you check is the kite gear, then realise that your car is missing!!!
When you wrap your car steerig wheel in that foamy stuff, just to get the feel..
When you are pretending to do a 'deadman' on the Hills Hoist instead of hanging out the washing...
Wifey: "I just don't understand why it takes you so long?"
reply: "Well it was a bit gusty out there today and I was a bit overpowered on the outer lines..." 
Carl Bevo - If we take a photo of you Kite Surfing could you please sign it for us - as we have become aware of the fact that you are the Seabreeze Legend. Please Carl..........
When you sleep under your kite waiting for the possibility of wind in the afternoon.
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When you are pretending to do a 'deadman' on the Hills Hoist instead of hanging out the washing...
didn't she suspect something when the clothes line was still attached to your harness?
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When you are pretending to do a 'deadman' on the Hills Hoist instead of hanging out the washing...
I actually did this and ended up bending the clothes line badly.
Strange how they bend easily one way but are near impossible to bend back the other. Opted for the deny everthing approach.
When you hook your wife to your kite harness while hanging from the ceiling in some Indian love making position (saw it on a SBS) and tell her not to unhook until I'm ready.
Know how you feel bananaboy, when my wife puts on a harness i find it hard to achieve an erection too.
Bloody thing keeps poking into my guts.
When all your speeding tickets arise when your driving from work to your favourite spot when it's 20+ knots. 
When you get out for your 1st kite in months in rough seas with gusty as all sh1te winds. Then during a lull that forces you into the shallower spectrum, you get lofted 'superman stylee' onto the beach sand and dragged a little before reaching the 5th line (love the 5th line) but get a realaunch happening without dramas. Then at the end of the sesh, you notice you have ripped the leg strap on your seat harness and your leash... and you still rave a bout how good it was!!!
BTW glad I'm not the only dead guy on the Hills Hoist
...you are swimming laps in the indoor Olympic pool at lunchtime, and at least once a lap you check the surface of the water for whitecaps.
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Nice one Jo kidneys... arf arf arf giddeup!
*when you're in foreign country (Switzerland, home of s#!T wind) because of a woman, spending 14 hours a day trawling seabreeze or kiteforum looking for some magic global warming effect to make the wind more than 6knots on the lake (Bodensee) that is 300m from the window behind my computer screen...not one good day of wind on this lake since i arrived on dec 23 06...
*When i used the excuse of i need to make money, so i'm going to Perth from Nov til April, knowing full well i will be at the beach every day!!
*when your GF wants to learn Spanish so you make her goto Tarifa for 4 mths...
*when your GF has 12 days off work so you take a holiday together around the coast of Italy moving from one kite spot to the next...
*when GF says wind looks good best we stop here, she's addicted to now!! yay
When the joy of an excellent session outweighs the pain of twisting an ankle, breaking two kite lines and scratching the new oakleys for the first time.
Speaking of which, when you twist an ankle two hours into an excellent session and just keep going when you know every landing brings bolts of stabbing pain and the more you kite now the worse it will be tomorrow...
If not what happend to the guy that was limpin around at woodies on sat arvo 
Looked like he was in a lot of pain
Oh hello, I often forget to check the stickies. No that wasn't me, I did it the week before in South Africa.
hey try this on a good 14mtr kite hooked up to the front of your 16ft tinny with a good nw wind trolling all the way out to the outer reef(barrier) catching almighty mackerel quietly .The rig is a couple of steering ropes to the tiller area .Then to top it off catch the best reefies heading back on the se change. dumb never work out i love speeding too much lol.
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or your in hospital with a fractured heel bone with pins an titatium strapping holding it all together an your watching kite surfing dvd,s just dreaming of getting back out there, to everyone else,shock.never mind the loss of income or the seemingly never ending recovery time.
But hey 9mths latter an I am back an so happy about it too, I can tell you
you know your addicted to kiteboarding when you have a tan line over your feet from the board straps.
