Kheo Air-S sold

It's gone, the end of the newb era on landboard. It's all trampa now.

6/Jan - board blast w/ Paul

Met up with Paul again today on Herringthorpe Fields for a quick blast about on the boards. Usual gusty winds but my 8m Access II was flying nicely.

I've realised that in hindsight I've been too much of a wuss and need to have more power in order to be able to do this properly, this means bigger kites in higher winds. It would explain my slow progress and frustration at not being able to get moving.

I think it was too gusty and changable for Paul's Rage 2.5m but he got a few runs in too. One day we'll both have a good day.

Also, the field was covered in dog eggs. Both Paul and my board were covered in the stuff. Not happy. :(

5/Jan - Another gusty day

Another gusty day landboarding at Herringthorpe with the 8m Access II, winds were stupidly gusty again and my skills need improving but I'm getting there

HPF lunchtime session

I got out today for some more lunchtime boarding action, it's slowly starting to come together now but I need more hours under my belt.

JugglerJon was there too having one hell of a time - he's just posted this in the forums:
"Just had a long dinner break. Went out to my usually gusty local spot to find 15mph clean winds cross/up the hill.

I cracked boosting big off the hill, landed my first inland back loops. And best of all kitelooping on the way down the hill to get boosted up into the air and back up the hill.

Amazing session. This grin on my face is gonna last"

It's always good to see someone who knows what they're doing as you can pickup so many tips just by watching.

Beach Boarding

Got to cleethorpes today, I'm determined to crack landboarding.

It's been a while since we've had anything remotely beyond a gnats fart recently.

Had fun today but whoah was it gusty! seemingly from 0 to 30 winds quite rapidly. Even the seasoned pros packed up after lunch and went home as it was just crazy and unpredictable.
It was fun at times but I had to pull my safety once as even max-depower and brakes wouldn't get the kite down during a prolonged gust! Big Fun.

I also tried out my 3.6m Beamer II in the high winds but it just kept collapsing and was nothing other than hard work. I think this will be the last time I fly it now I've gone over to de-power.

1st Beach - Cleethorpes

My family and I all headed off to Cleethorpes today partly to take a look at the kiting area then if we couldn't find it or it was rubbish then we'd spend the day in the amusements.

We finally found the place near Thorpe Park and walked out to see who was about, there were a few people there with lots of kites but I hadn't a clue what it all meant.

In the end I decided to stay and the others went off and left me for the day. I watched for a while and I wasn't really sure what I was doing but I plucked up the courage to give it a go.

After some initial skudding around with the AII I tried boarding but didn't get very far and only in one direction, it was also frustrating to see kids bombing up & down with such ease. I kept getting stuck in sand/mud along with falling off the board a lot.

I was on the beach for over 4hrs in the end but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Still, its hopefully only the beginning.