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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby Mossy 757 » Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:04 pm

In before "Ram Airs Continue to Fail in 2018!!!"

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby LiquidXtasy » Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:15 pm

You go to pee in your wetsuit but quickly realize you have a drysuit on

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby grigorib » Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:24 pm

grigorib wrote:
Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:54 pm
few more cases:
- you're launching someone's kite and while you still have it in hands he/she starts pulling on the bar hard powering it a lot
- you're barely managing a lightwind tack and someone drops a kite in front of you
- you keep coming back close to shore to do a nice jump/transition just to keep seeing someone hanging out with a kite parked static in the air, chatting
- you're coming back to shore tired (or grossly overpowered) to land but others are continuously coming out from that tiny launch spot :)
- someone else (besides several people you know well and trust) attempts to pump or roll your kite or rig/attach your lines
- when someone borrows your pump (and/or connect a different hose to it) and doesn't return it where it was
- when someone demoes your board you see them for no particular reason start readjusting straps
- when someone picks up or lands your kite and then moves with it in a way that you just see they move one of the lines over the wing and you end up with crossed lines
- when you see a knot on your line
- walking in/out and a line catches on some root or rock
- when you see someone with a cigarette is getting near your kite
- when you go on a quick downwinder with someone who spends 45 minutes to pump and rig
- you fail a frontroll and wipeout. Another dude stops, parks his kite so he's actually "in the way" to the board and checks on you "do you know how to bodydrag upwind?"
- someone starts correcting your launch technique "you should launch with kite towards water, it's safer that way"
- someone is riding in your wake as you approach shore and it's about time to be turning around
- when you hear that there are people who pee into their wetsuits
- when you jump and get a "bzzt" jolt upon landing from post-storm electricity in the air and you realize you better stop riding now
- when people claim "complete, full revolutionary redesign" of same kite model compared to its previous year
- when you're debating buying a kite on sale and it disappears so you all feel relieved but then it pops up again
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- $45 for a piece of plastic linemount
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- hitting sunken ship with a foil
- when you see someone riding with a boardleash
- when people walk out to launch and don't take the board with them
- getting into wet wetsuit
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- people who ride twice a year but get mad blaming their kite which is same model like yours and you've just had a decent session on it
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- ducks emerging from underneath water surface in front of you
- flying fish getting stuck in one's ankle

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby HellYeah » Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:47 am

LiquidXtasy wrote:
Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:15 pm
You go to pee in your wetsuit but quickly realize you have a drysuit on
:rollgrin: funniest thing said in this entire thread

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby harppa » Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:43 am

HellYeah wrote:
LiquidXtasy wrote:
Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:15 pm
You go to pee in your wetsuit but quickly realize you have a drysuit on
:rollgrin: funniest thing said in this entire thread
That is most defenitely a moment when kiter says f***********ck :)

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby RedSky » Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:51 pm

Eckhardt wrote:
Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:55 am
Rubbish...

there is no such thing as to much wind.
Agree. And if its a hurricane then I'm happy to stay home. :D

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby RedSky » Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:52 pm

Drive an hour to beach. Forget harness. Ahhhhhhhhhhh

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Re: When kiters say fu****

Postby Toby » Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:57 pm

RedSky wrote:
Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:52 pm
Drive an hour to beach. Forget harness. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
I hear you...had that too. 1.5 hours drive 😤


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