when you spend every waking moment trying to figure out a better way to win that Airush kite to replace the missus' 05 Menace...
When your home page has three 'tabs'....
1. Latest weather observations
2. Coastal waters forecast
3. Seabreeze ![]()
Frustrated with the lack of wind you invent a game called "kite cricket" involving a trainer kite, bar stool and beer can. Credit to Big Phil.
When broken knuckles stop you from gripping a bar you strap a spreader-bar to your cast and use it to hold the bar and keep kiting. Credit to Tones.
When you go to Egypt for a month and don't see one pyramid. Credit to pretty much the whole crew from Sept.
When the potential loss of a work car makes you think proactively and move to 300m from the kite beach instead of 1 km.
Haha some classics on here!
...you still think about the time last year you may have met the girl of your dreams that asked you to launch her kite...(it was her first time solo)
..find yourself trying to write something whitty after reading the last 24 pages - classic stuff, im hooked thats all there is to it. cant wait for next 6 months of joyous perth wind after only catching the bug at the end of last season. having saved enough money for 2 seconhand kites and a board - life is good! ![]()
You just start kitesurfing only body draging in the water and all you can think about is kitesurfing and gettin up on the board on the weekend ^-^
when...you've saved up all year to go to canada for 2 months of skiing and partying and then you learn to just get up on kiteboard and now all i think about is that i can't wait to get back and kitesurf....if you spell kitesurf backwards i think it spells D.I.V.O.R.C.E......
You have an exam tommorow (saturday), had to work at 5 am friday and complained of stress so the manager sent you home to study but the wind has now picked up and i'm going for a kite to try my knew caliber.
Hehe! ![]()
'never been so happy after my car was broken into...
because the scummers did not touch the $1000's of kitesurfing gear!!!
They just took the wallet and played with the credit card... Bah!
I ll go kiting tomorrow and all this theft story will be forgotten... ![]()
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Life's beautiful! ![]()
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Fred
You know you're addicted when the season kicks in and:
Ute maintenance doesn't get done
Bike maintenance doesn't get done
Housework doesn't get done
You go hungry because with daylight savings you can kite until after IGA closes.
Although you did put those new 'vertical pinstripes' onya wagon.![]()
Too much of a hurry to get in the water - next time easy does it when taking off the tape.. easy does it..
Slow.. and .. steady.. wins.. the.. race. ![]()
I know I must be addicted when I wonder if it is possible to kite these two lakes i drive past every day.
Google Maps: the two lakes East of Scouts Crossing Rd in Brendale QLD
..you toy with the idea that the windsurfing equipment you have in the garage and has only been used once this year might be worth maybe another kite, another kiteboard, new kite harness,new boardies and rashie.Or wait till next season when if I can find someone to buy 2 season old kit it might be worth a new rashie only.Yeh I'm addicted.There it's said.
Oh its 8:30 AM it's 20 knots and 4 days in arow will prevent me from staying out all day but hey lets have a bash.
EB
When you start talking about your kite as if it is a living being. "She just wasn`t behaving herself today". Worse, when you start talking to it while you`re on the water. Mmm, maybe it`s just me.![]()
You know you`re addicted when tax rebate is now called "New Kite Money".
how about when you dont even have a job because you want to spend all of your time kiteboarding...![]()
true story, i'm not working in tony ale's from 3-6 for $10 per hour ![]()
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mike.
your hand is in so much pain and probaly is broken but u still wanna kite..
and you wanna ask ur boss for less hours to kite more![]()
when your wife comes back from holiday & asks to get picked up at the airport, but you cant make it cos its 25kns + ![]()
when you save up for a year to get your kite and then save for another 4 weeks and get a board
working every friday night saturday morning and sunday night
and then skateboarding numerous kilometers in 35 degrees to get a lift to the beach!
man its been an effort hahaha
...when all your passwords on internet are related to kite. (2 emails, 3 forums and more)
... when you want to work in the wind generator industry to live near windy places.
When you have to take a sleeping pill almost every night cause you can't stop playing your new kite move over in your head again, & again, & again....
You consider quitting your job as a serious option when you have to work on the only day the wind has been really good in over two weeks ![]()