Kiteventure

 Took me ages to get my head around how it would even work, but today magic happened and I sorted it out.  Should be easy from now on in.  Down at Hampton with Anthony, perfect 18-20 knot breeze for trying out new stuff.  

 big boats were in and so were Mike and Taz.  Great session in very consistent wind.  Stu even dropped by and took some footage.

 Last session before going in to work.  Just over 20 knots so took out the 10.  Tried a lot of rotational stuff, happy with my forward 360 again.  Tried darkslide and couldn't help but pull a loop at the end, gotta go back to basics on that one.  happy to have a rest for a couple of days, starting to hurt myself.

 Picked up Sam's surfboard in the morning and gave it a shot in the afternoon.  It turns beautifully but is quite long and skinny, I don't think it's perfect for me.  Aspendale was glorious, 20 knots, little waves and good opportunities for jumps.  Tried a darkslide on my non preferred which I crashed head first into the water - some way to go on that.  Mike and Dobbo joined me there - Mike having his first session in ages.  I had a go of Mike's WAM board - very similar to the nugget in terms of the ride, just turns a little faster.

 Met Stu and James down at the Pines.  Surfed the pines a bit then headed up to Zappas, which was good fun little waves.  We meandered up to Left and Rights and I wondered why we bothered.  Then a set came through and great waves, sitting up and surfable for ages.  Awesome fun.  We spent heaps of time there.  It would be incredible with a bit bigger surf.   Predict wind had a 1.4m wave height and 7s period for today.  Half a metre more would be amazing.

 Another session at Hampton to claim the local legend title for the most amount of kms between the rock groynes.  Hilarious.

 Job and I met up at Hampton, joined by Garry a bit later on.  Strong wind so a small kite day.  Huge airs launching off the nice swell.

 Great clan together for a downwinder on Job's birthday.  We had Job, Luca, Cam, James, Stu, Garry, Adam & Sean, with Ant joining us on the beach at Brighton.  We set off from Ricketts, waiting a little while for Adam to launch and for Cam to join us from Ricketts south.   Was a really fun downwinder, calling in at all the favourite spots.  Garry almost hit a pylon with an x on it on the way down, and I had a kite fall out of the sky just at the red cliffs at Sandringham.  I thought there might be more wind closer to the cliff - turns out there was none.  We also got a bit tight around Green point, I ended up taking it really shallow over the reef.   I still had quite a bit of energy by the end so Stu and I did a quick trip out to Fawkner beacon and back to make it 50kms.  Job had beers and some fruit to celebrate the trip and his birthday - was a great little setup.  Awesome day.