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davesails7
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Postby davesails7 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:10 pm
I am! Although ive only been at it 7 years, so I'm new compared to some of you haha.
I'm not picky about conditions. I just got the equipment that makes lightwind and cold weather fun. Im still the only one out on those 8 knot days. Maybe this will change after another 8 years though
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SupaEZ
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Postby SupaEZ » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:21 pm
davesails7 wrote:I am! Although ive only been at it 7 years, so I'm new compared to some of you haha.
I'm not picky about conditions. I just got the equipment that makes lightwind and cold weather fun. Im still the only one out on those 8 knot days. Maybe this will change after another 8 years though
If you are a stoked person by nature......... it will not change
After 15 1/2 years i still get stoked in 8kn
Just last night the wind picked up to 8kn at 7pm and i got an hour sesh in small waves before dinner
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airsurfer
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Postby airsurfer » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:25 pm
15 years still stoked still learning and feeling like a newb on the hydrofoil. This sport is still getting better IMO I'm an addict for sure 8kn or 30kn I try to go out every day unless its totally offshore or raining then I take the SUP
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Cab Driver
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Postby Cab Driver » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:13 pm
I am still totally stoked!!! I love to see all the cool new directions the sport goes and how the equipment becomes more and more refined as we move through time. Mostly, I just love being on the water. It can be gusty and choppy offshore wind and I might have to swim back after the wind dies, but I will still go out even after 12 years of kiting! Hooked, unhooked, foilboard, wakeboard, skimboard, surfboard, or twintip, I love it.
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SupaEZ
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Postby SupaEZ » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:24 pm
Well said airsurfer & Cab Driver
3 posts in a row from Floridians living close to the water
Stoked we are....by simply having the chance to kitesurf nearly everyday year round
Water + wind + kite = our passion
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doc
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Postby doc » Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:09 pm
14 years and it comes in waves...excuse the pun!
Skill wise I peaked 10 years ago and have gradually slipped into armchair kiting on a surf board, age and early c kites have left there mark!
Get more of a buzz out of teaching sometimes, nothing better than sharing in that early adrenalin injection that this wonderful sport produces when you first start!
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windsuks
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Postby windsuks » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:19 am
14 years and one divorce later and still completely hooked!
Still gagging for every session, the sport offers so many different aspects and keeps throwing up more challenges....at the moment loving the strapless surf plus tacks and duck tacks, doing a big channel crossing in October which I can't wait for. I don't care if it's light winds, nukin', flat, double over head, it's all good!
We also have one of the best communities at our local beaches, it makes every session so much more fun...even days like yesterday when I was thinking of skipping a session as it was pi**ing down so hard...it turned out to be awesome yet again.
And then there's all the travelling to amazing overseas spots,meeting like minded people....... Brazil again in November with a cracking group once again.
Love's it, I does!
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Postby plummet » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:45 pm
windsuks wrote:14 years and one divorce later and still completely hooked!
Still gagging for every session, the sport offers so many different aspects and keeps throwing up more challenges....at the moment loving the strapless surf plus tacks and duck tacks, doing a big channel crossing in October which I can't wait for. I don't care if it's light winds, nukin', flat, double over head, it's all good!
We also have one of the best communities at our local beaches, it makes every session so much more fun...even days like yesterday when I was thinking of skipping a session as it was pi**ing down so hard...it turned out to be awesome yet again.
And then there's all the travelling to amazing overseas spots,meeting like minded people....... Brazil again in November with a cracking group once again.
Love's it, I does!
Sounds like your having a BLAST man!
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Clarencephil
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Postby Clarencephil » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:53 pm
Still stoked after 7 years
Unfortunately summer in Montreal is pretty windless
Cannot wait for September !
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SupaEZ
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Postby SupaEZ » Fri Aug 01, 2014 7:06 pm
windsuks wrote:14 years and one divorce later and still completely hooked!
Hopefully you will find and re-marry a water girl who can ride alongside you in most crazy conditions
Sharing the stoke with your better half 24/7/365 is (epic)
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