Kiteventure

James and I hit Frankston on the tail of an exceptionally windy week in Melbourne.  122km/h was recorded this week at South Channel, fortunately for us the wind oscillated between 25 and 30 knots.  Great small kite weather, we both had a blast.  I've got a small amount of pain in my left foot again, hopefully it clears away. Photos courtesy of Peter Campbell.

James and I hit Rosebud at around 7:30 for a fantastic morning session in beautiful water with a nice 17-18 knot breeze.  Foot is fine and its a great thing to be kiting first thing in the morning.

Its been one of the longest breaks from kiting I've ever had - waiting for my weird foot problem to heal up.  Spent a couple of hours down at Hampton in nice 17 knots, on both the twin tip and surfboard without any problem - great to get through the session, fun to be back on the water. Helped out Gianluca who is progressing well.  His kite is pretty hard to fly though - its a Cabrinha Nomad - one of those kites I'm not a big wrap for.

Great session following Japan trip - got out on the twintip and the surfboard. Nice little waves, quite strong wind and great to get wet again. My foot was fine for 95% of the time - I hurt it again doing a front grab - it seems to be sideways pressure giving me grief.

Awesome session on the surfboard at Altona.  The twintip is still hurting my left foot, but on the surfboard is fine. Wind was amazing, spent about 2 hours in the water.  Managed a backroll and forward 360 on the surfboard, air transition, did a big tour and rode some waves.  Great prep for Japan.

Just enough wind at mentone.  My foot is still sore in the twintip, the left foot on top when I am going right. Great motivation to go on the surfboard, absolutely no pain on that.  Managed to nail 5 gybes in a row, getting there.

When you have the opportunity, you just gotta take it. Upon returning to Hampton, the wind still looked up.  James and I pulled on our wet wetsuits and gave it another crack.  The wind was pretty ordinary though, and we were over fighting it, so after a few runs on the surfboard, we both gave up.