Margarita to Coche, I think it was 2002 probably as it was before the kite centre opened in Coche, i'd only been kiting for a year and it was a bit hairy for me.... Other than that, here's a little something that happened to me on a downwinder at my local spot that I posted on the UK forum where I u...

John Holmes?

MarcusH wrote:It's amazing that they used kite power in such extreme conditions when they have so little experience of actually using the equipment.

Not so amazing really.... plenty of idiots doing exactly that on the east coast and most other places I guess

Wind up ya waist... Toeside is quite an unnatural position compared to heelside, you need to twist your lower body upwind, to ride real smooth toeside its almost to the point of exaggeration, make sure your shoulders point the direction you want to go. I also tend to lift my back heel to put even mo...

mx5alan wrote:I never needed to get a wetsuit hood.

checkout the man of bronze

Have you looked at Donjoy, they make some really solid braces for knee injuries and you can use them in the water, I had an MCL injury a month before I went on a kiting holiday. I got one of these and strapped it up tight every day on the water and it did the trick, stopped my knee rotating and any ...

yer i'll be upgrading my 07 quiver for sure, you gotta admit 10 pages of discussion cant hurt to big up the 09 though

Just thought I'd mention......

Genius bit of pimping there Graeme....

Right.... I geddit.... so it just puts the kite on its front lines spilling the power. Is that a single line to the front line attachment point or is there some kind of bungee to account for when you pull in the trim strap?

Nice..... I love it when a plan comes together