i know there's at least one kiter on these forums - i forget who - but anyways... here's today's pic thread:


headed down to the beach with some local friends, their kids, & some of my relatives.

good times. was the 3rd or 4th time i've been to a beach in about 6 years, and we've got a lot of 'em here.

anyways - took the little kite out, even though the wind was really light - it was still fun to fly.

tide was way in, so there wasn't much room to launch from the beach/grassy area... in fact - on one launch, i grazed some girls' pony tail with the kite sail. (that's a *huge* no-no... striking someone with the lines would be very, very bad)

anywho - pics:












i'm hoping to convince a few local buddies to train up & then hit the beach and get kiteboarding/surfing - then snowkiting this winter (snowboards) & buggies and landboards next year. going to be throwing up a simple community/info site at airgasm.ca when time/money permits as well. should be good fun. =)

as per sports and fitness, i'd much rather go out flying in decent wind and get launched clear off the ground (as i did last week in merrit!) than go push a few weights. it's a good workout. (wind resistance) & i've woken up pretty sore a couple times... i can only imagine how sore i'll be once my "real" kite arrives - it's twice as big. (and still not considered that big at all - but big enough to get into surfing/snow kiting with, and even this "little" one is big enough to board/buggy/snowkite with - but not surf, more friction with water = more power needed = bigger sail blah blah)

edit: this is at white rock beach, in south surrey - bc, canada.