Kiteventure

After the big rain, we (Taz, James and I) hit Aspendale hoping to find cleaner waters.  Alas it wasn't quite the case.  Wind was nice, but bay was extremely choppy out the back, waves coming from all directions.  Worked a lot on rotational jumps and started to get them dialled in.  Did one sequence of 720 back, 360 forward transition with kiteloop, backroll to toeside, toeside backroll kiteloop to toeside and it just kept going, totally nuts.  Had a lot of fun taking the shallow channel run to get back upwind with Taz - screaming along about 1m from the sand.  Did finish with one heck of a sore stomach though - I don't think it was related to the water.

 Overcast day and a consistent wind forecast, so we headed to Hampton.  Rock solid wind so worked on rotational jumps, landing some, not landing others.  Great to be out on the water as ever and see some familiar faces. yeah.

 Great strong wind, took out the 10 and had a ball.  Had to deal with the aggresive dude on the surfboard (Jeff Steel ?) which is always a pain.  Took on Laird Hamiltons advice to go first which helped.  Went to hit a ramp just behind the reef, the wave reared up and I got thrown into a double loop pretty hard.  Was quite a shock but turned out fine.

 Don't know why we went to Mentone but it was up to its usual tricks.  Taz, James, Stu, Rich all turned up to be courted by lady wind but no-one really won out.

 Snuck out for a quick session - just enough wind to put a smile on my face.

 Wow.  Absolutely huge surf in the bay after a fairly strong westerly that was even stronger down the bay.  James, Stu and I hit up Aspendale and it was game on - overhead waves to tuck into and amazing ramps to launch into orbit.  Saw Stu hit a cracker and then tried a few myself.  Awesome start to what was a cracking week for kiting, surfing and suping.

 Ant, Mike, James and Stu joined in to hit great conditions down at Flinders.  The wave was big and working, absolutely glorious to be out there.  Ant unfortunately stacked and wrapped his fifth line so we had to assist him to get in.  When flinders is working it is unbeatable, awesome session.

 Headed down at 11am through some big storm fronts to hit Inverloch at 1pm and be greeted by a rising wind.  2 hour session on the small kite in fantastic conditions, lots of big air, bit scared to try new tricks though.  Went out in the surf but the wind was patchy there and the surf wasn't really breaking.