Kiteventure

 Went out with Mark at Hampton.  Tested the bar repair with my old kite - all good.  Legends at SHQ (Pat) had fixed up my bar after the depower line snapped.  Some nice big air and riding out a bunch of gusts.  Saw a seal in the small surf - amazing.

 Cracking session at Flinders, over 25 knots, small kite, great waves that just kept lining up.  Rode heaps of fun waves, awesome.  Went down with James and was joined by Rich, Stu, Ant and Pete.  Totally knackered now, was out for 2 hours and did close to 60 kms.   I'd tuned my lines on the old bar (new one is in for repair, had to source a depower part from Brisbane to SHQ) and it made a huge difference with the kite flying normally again.  

 Old bar, old kite.  Was quite a different experience.  Kite was jellyfishing, wind was strong.  Some nice air but I always felt a bit on edge not having the best stuff around me.  Seems very hard to find replacement parts for my bar - which is tres annoying.

 New kite and met up with Chris Leverkuehn down at Hampton.  Styles, James, Anthony and Rich all came down.  Was out the back getting big air - perfect wind for it.  I'm finding I have to yank the new kite a bit more to power through loops than the last one - but the bonus is that it is super stable in the air which should make for great rotational jumps.  Got in behind the breakwater to rip through and hit waves at speed for mega launches.  Was doing a backroll kiteloop and something snapped - the entire kite depowered.  Wound in the lines and had to sit on the kite and sail in.  Was taking ages as it looks like I was able to hold a tack pretty well !   Broken depower Garage sail of lines Turns out the entire depower had snapped so I've taken it to SHQ for repairs.  The bar and lines are still in great condition so don't think I need a new one - they are retailing at about $1000 (which is totally insane) so thank goodness for that....

 Probably about 18 knots at first so I put up the 10m but it came in nicely so it was big air time.  Heaps of fun.  Garry joined, then James rocked up at the end.  Waves weren't as good as yesterday but still heaps of fun.  Some nutter went crazy at me about making hand signals and rotating signs - he wanted to have a fight on the beach.  Amazing how you can get that angry in such great wind.

 Very quick 30 minute session in great wind and fun sized surf before picking up Sonny from work.