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Originally posted by nonikkers
hey hunglong??
what would happen to you if you did some 'kiting' talk in bed?? i think you would then have to change your name to hungshort
... when you have your work Christmas do tomorrow afternoon with free piss etc but you are thinking about leaving early as the forecast graph is showing green
... when you sell every toy you have collected over the years - kayaks - aqualungs - hang gliders - golf clubs AND even the lawn bowls 
as well as the spare crockery set to get the cash to up the size of your quiver to match these pssy conditions 
From now on if the arrows turn yellow Im out there 
"He who enjoys most - WINS"
how bout when you start bookmarking threads like this, just so that you can revisit for a pisser when there's no wind and your feeling blue...
I wanna be at the party where niall barrett and nonikkers get together for a session on the turps... two characters like that would send everyone home with wet pants
...when you start seeing kites in your food.
At lunch today some of my work mates and I went to our local Thai restaurant. I looked at my barbeque pork for a moment, pulled out a small kite shaped piece of onion, showed my mate Dan (aka DRW in this forum) and said "looks like a high aspect on this one, bet it's hard to relaunch".
you know when you are addicted when
After 5 weeks of personal adds and 5 kitesurfing lessons .you now have to change your add from ."I enjoy long walks along the beach " to "I love kitesurfing " 
when the british secret service ask you to come and "do a job" for them in barnstable, and you refuse saying its good wind all week.
Just happend to me......
Here we go folks, unleashing the med student within!!!...
It is first important to note that a kitesurfing addiction is very different from a drug addiction due to the lack of a physical intoxicant or drug.
By using Pathological Gambling as a model, kitesurfing can be defined as an impulse-control disorder which does not involve an intoxicant.
1.Do you feel preoccupied with kitesurfing (think about previous kitesurfing or anticipate your next session on the water)?
2.Do you feel the need to use kitesurfing with increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction?
3.Have you repeatedly made unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back, or stop kitesurfing?
4.Do you feel restless, moody, depressed, or irritable when attempting to cut down or stop kitesurfing?
5.Do you stay on the water longer than originally intended?
6.Have you jeopardized or risked the loss of significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of kitesurfing?
7.Have you lied to family members, therapist, or others to conceal the extent of involvement with kitesurfing?
8.Do you use kitesurfing as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving a dysphoric mood (e.g., feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety, depression)?
Patients are considered "addicted" when answering "yes" to five (or more) of the questions and when their behavior could not be better accounted for by a Manic Episode. The cut off score of "five" is consistent with the number of criteria used for Pathological Gambling and was seen as an adequate number of criteria to differentiate normal from pathological addictive kitesurfing.
SO PUT YOUR HAND UP IF YOU GOT THE CRAZIES!!!!!
*raises hand*
show me a kiter who did not put both hands and feet in the air after reading that one!
-life is so much eaiser when we know what we are addicted to.
anyone else noticed that to type kiting on predictive text comes up with 'living' first?
what does it mean when one dreames kitesurfing - can we tally this symptom of full sensory addiction
your addicted when you all of a sudden have mates with names like puppetonastring, nonickers, g-dog, hardman, greenroom, gruiezi etc etc
Oh poor relative...that is so true...haha
I know im addicted wen i drop everything planned in my day, to go and see if the wind has picked up a few more notches, even tho the web sez it wont get ne stronger than 10knts
haha..Happy and safe kiting
Kat
When your girlfriend wakes you up on a Saturday morning, you ask what the weather's like outside and she just says "15 knots South Easterly".
/my girl rocks
.....when you're boss tells you that staring at seabreeze graphs won't make the wind change so that you can leave early......and if you keep looking at it you'll lose your job, then your visa and to boot could be deported back to the UK 
Where's the justice in loving something so much?!?!?!!!!!
... your on a 10 day holiday at Plantation Island Fiji and two very tasty female travellers invite you to join (only) them on a walk to a secluded beach on the other side of the island for a spot of naked sunbaking but you look at the trees and say your going kiting as the wind is due to come up (and it never did!) 
...When everywhere you go, any time you go anywhere, you are constantly looking around for flags, banners, tall trees, paper blowing down the street , anything to give you an excuse to bail out of whatever it is that you're doing and head to the water.
...You stand knee deep in the water... wind blowing 1knt gusting to 3 and you just stand there staring s/w waiting... just waiting 
...The value of anything is now measured in it's importance compared to how it will adversely affect your next kiting purchase.
These are not the droids we're looking for. move along.
You spent a $100 on going to the big day out and now you're thinking you'll skip out of it by 1pm to catch the forecasted killer sea breeze!
You choose not to drink at the Big Day Out as it will reduce your chances of getting to work early so that you can bail work by 4pm for the breeze on Monday afternoon AND if you do drink you can't drive to the beach the evening of the Big Day Out anyway.
You now start thinking about ditching the big day out all together...
If only I'd discovered kitesurfing BEFORE I bought the ticket [}:)]
The arrows on Sunday aren't green anymore!!!
Maybe I can now go to the Big Day Out and not miss out on any worthwhile breeze!
Alcohol is back on!
dont think that far ahead, tho the arrows may not be green, sometimes is u head down 2 the water the wind will be blowing well and truly
So maybe still skip the booze
haha...
You know you are addicted when .........
1) your mind wanders, whilst you're driving, on long trips and you find yourself assessing the launch areas and kitability of farmer Brown's dams and waterholes...
2) you've just typed "kitability" and you're dismayed that it isn't in your spell-checker's dictionary...
3) "kitability" is in your spell-checker's dictionary!
4) your passengers teeth are in the dashboard because you've just found the sweetest little dam that'll work in every direction[}:)]
u know when your addicted...when your @ school looking @ the graphs to see if the wind has changed so you can go kiting after school
even thou its a crap day ...
Your boss keeps constant tabs on your whereabouts when the trees are doing the hoolla because he thinks he's clever enough to recognise the signs. Well all is in vain cause he doesn't know about this website so I'm always one step ahead, towards the water (demonic Vincent Price style laughter) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
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Those of us who aim high should do so fully overpowered!!!!!!!!!
You know you are addicted when .........
You are reading this post and thinking "I can wrote this"
and you are in winter (-12ºC) and every weekend are trying to kite.
When your answer to everyone who wants you to do something with them tomorrow, on the weekend, next week or next month is.......
Maybe, it depends what the wind is doing.
When you rock up at work & your non kiting work mates dont say how was your weekend...they simply ask "so how was kiting over the weekend"
where your work mates avoid talking to you after the weekend if as have a smile on your face and they know they will be stuck for hours as you explian how you finally nailed that trick
...you find yourself in the middle of the River with another addict, staring at large kites upsidedown.....with no wind in sight.....and loving every moment.
So Sad
...when your friends (who have never even seen it) write on your birthday cards, "may the wind be with you"
tt
