Jev

Pity, that's the best time here in Melbourne. I'm looking to go away somewhere around August - kid friendly, with yoga for my Ms without having to spend a fortune. May have to go up to FNQ.

Looks alright. When's your best season and what size kites would I have to bring, 85kg on TT?

...you'll never look back.

Has anyone tried using Paulownia planks? Been trawling the web for some info about making a lightwind board, probably an Alaia, and these guys seem to be selling planks for kiteboards as well http://www.portphillip.com.au/surfboards.htm it's light weight and doesn't absorb water.

Nice vid and some nice waves! Not sure how good the kiting would have been in front of the eifel tower but it certainly would have been a good lough.

well, I gess what I need to ask first is what do you consider to be a coffin lid?

Would you make it similar to an Alaia?

I had 2 Rip Curl and both died on me after a while. On one of the Rip Curl I had the arrows falling off after a decent downhill run in my bike in the Swiss Alps, no issues with the G-Shok last time I went. I've been using a Casio G-Shock Giez for tha past 4 years for everithing I do, Mountain Biking, Kiting, Work etc and the thing just keeps going - and it's precise! They're pretty tough and you never need to adjust the Giez. It does it by itself. It would be nice the have the tides on there but I just look it up once a week and thats usually enough to have a fair idea when it's high or low. You can get the Casio's fairly cheap on fleebay.

Awesome!! I'll be doing this in a few years. Hey Norm, there is only one problem with teaching your kids. Give them one to two seasons and they will be doing massive handlepasses and you may have to go for some lessons to your son!

It would be worth talking to the guy from KSS. I don't see why this wouldn't be in his best interst. Pamphlet's could be a simple way. A large sign at the beach, but that would involve the council. KBV, try it, I'm not getting any responses from them. Update the KBV website with better kite location info. KBV to send out regular newsletters with that sort of info included, i.e. hazards, accidents. ...or de we need to create an altona kitesurf club to push that through ->transform MAKO.

There is no reason the believe the guys was a newbie and I don't know, I didn't pay any attention. Fingers crossed for him! However, there are masses of newbies in Altona and Altona is not as save as it may seems. There is not much room for things to go wrong. One of the issues is also the fact that every website (incl. KBV) describes Altona as suitable beginners and schools keep telling their students to practice in Altona. But what are the options, I know one school in St. Kilda that churns out over 1000 kiters a season!!! Some may be tourists but a lot of them would be from around melbourne and they need to practice somewehre. But Altona is not the best place to practice.

I think it was wednesday last week (too much kiting, it's all a blur). Don't know what happened. I launched off the main beach in Altona and stayed towards apex park mainly in the flat water area, the wind was ok not too gusty and on the lighter side. There were not many kiters out. A few were doing laps from the pier to the flat water just after the groin and back again. Didnt pay too much attention what they were doing or what skill level they had. Next thing was I Cab in a tree on the corner of Webb Street and a couple fo people were already there. I had a chat to some of the kiters that helped him and thay mentioned something went wrong and he ended up on the side of the road not able to move his legs. Beginner or not, it doesn't matter, lets hope the dude is fine and back on the water again.

Two ambulances on a light wind day is surprising.

Just wondering if anyone knows if that guy is ok who got dragged over the wall and onto the road in Altona last week. I heard he wasn’t able to move his legs anymore and got taken away by an ambo. Does anyone know if he’s fine?

^^^thats the one.