col Posted September 15, 2003 Report Posted September 15, 2003 YOU KNOW YOUR A KITESURFER WHEN.... 1) you replace broken shoelaces, hang hammocks and clothes with the extra lengths of Q-line you keep in the back of the car. 2) you develop a sudden affection for wind chimes and hang them strategically around your house so the different tones alert you to wind direction and speed. 3) above chimes awaken you at ungodly morning hours and you sprint to the beach without so much as a kiss to your girl or your morning coffee. 4) for the first time in your life you have a "six pack" of abs and very defined quadriceps. 5) stainless steel o rings, snap shackles, and clam cleats are your idea of the "family jewels". 6) you can never have enough rope. 7) you carry a spare piece of leader line and, when bored at parties or on the plane or in line at the bank you practice all kinds of intricate knots 8)you have no less than 327 personal "wind meters" that you glance at every day on your commute. These include but are not limited to flags, trees, peeling billboard ads, etc etc. 9) every sunset session is a "religious experience". 10) your local shoe-repair guy knows you on a first name basis and has operated on your harness 7 times in that many months and you have pretty much convinced HIM to go buy a kite. 11) you have developed intricate "systems" for everything from loading the car to laying your lines to cinching the harness to pulling out bladders and you mentally time yourself every run through so as to be a lean, mean, kiting machine and not lose one precious second of time on the water. 12) you are absolutely sure that you will be able to kitesurf until you are 83...and you'll be jumping higher each year. 13) you have reoccurring fantasies of somehow becoming one of those lucky *******s that gets to ride all the prototype gear and go on all the photo shoots. 14) you find it VERY, VERY difficult to get psyched to go play racquetball or ride your bike or go scuba diving..."I mean, what if it starts to blow and I'm far from my kite!!??" 15) you're convinced that the human race has finally begun to evolve again and that WE are leading the pack! 16) work functions are distracting you from constantly watching tree tops to see how much wind there is even though you cant get to the beach. 17) Every sport you see is compared to kitesurfing. 18 You argue with non-kitesurfing friends that kitesurfing is better then everything. 19) You try so hard to get friends involved, but when it comes down to it, it costs so much and they don't understand that spending $2000 bucks will re-define fun in their life...and you still can't believe that a few, although are just as fit as you, have no interest whatsoever in kitesurfing. They would rather spend all there money on junk. 20) When you have no wind or are bored, you will sit down and study kitesurfing movies. But when non kitesurfing friends come around they can't watch it for 5 seconds and you can't understand why...maybe they are jealous? 21) Your living space is shrinking due to the pile of gear in the middle of your house where the TV, VCR, dinner table and couch used to be before selling them to buy another kite. 22) Your control bar is used for hanging coats - when you're not hanging from it... 23) You have a massive stupid grin on your face whilst hosing the kite down with water in the garden after an epic session. 24) Afterwards you think a clean kite sat in your garden drying off is a beautiful sight, while you're girlfriend thinks you've lost your marbles and wished you treated everything else in the house with the same care and attention - especially her. 25) Your kite buddies have replaced your lifelong high-school/college buddies. 26) You find yourself daydreaming about kitesurfing at all hours of the day 27) You}ve only stayed at home for 3 weekends in a 5 month period, 2 of which were because of weddings or birthday parties. 28 You are constantly trying to figure out the wind speed in anything you see, movies, magazines, "wild on" shows in Belize, pictures. Saying, "look, there's wind when this was filmed". Your girlfriend gives you weird looks. 29) You are constantly asking friends who went to beaches etc, who don't kitesurf, if it was windy when you weren}t there because you wanted desperately to know if you've missed any kitesurfing... 30) Have replaced dreaming of hot blondes, to landing quadruple back rolls in Hawaii. 31) Add up what you have spent on kite gear over the years to find out you could have bought a car already. 32) Everyone close to you reports how the wind was where they were automatically, you don}t even have to ask them anymore. 33) you have gotten at least 2 buddies on to the sport, your brother, parents or cousins... 34) your grandma knows that scattered whitecaps begin to form at 8 knots. 35) you don't get along with pelicans anymore because they have an uncanny knack for pooping on your kite... 36) you have an epic love/hate relationship with the god of wind and have considered making sacrifices 37) If the wind is blowing you can work miracles on broken equipment with chewing gum, duck tape, extra 600 lb Qline and zip ties. 3 You carry a 30 lb. bag of line and rope spools, rings, shackles, leader line, everywhere you go. 39) when you won't make plans to do ANYTHING else because it MIGHT be windy...! 40) When not at the beach you find yourself looking at windcharts like ten of them - then when you're done about five minutes later you're back in there just to see if the wind change a knot. 41) you constanly check 20+ websites and forums just to get the latest scoop on equipment, new video downloads and pictures or just to hear some guy on the other side of the world flew into a tree and broke his back. reply to everything that gives you a kick and if not finding a reason to reply even though you have know idea what's going on. Then when all else fails making up posts so when you return to check it in 5 minutes to see if someone has replied. 42) you dream about kitesurfing and wake up drooling. 43) when you're on a crowded beach on a hot sunny day and everyone else is looking at half-naked girls on the beach but you're too busy looking at the lovely white caps in the water..... 44) your girlfriend has to sit in the back seat when driving because your board is on the passenger seat that's reclined - and they both can't fit in the front 45) Every road trip you take you are spying for new kitesurf spots relatively close to home: lakes, rivers, open fields for kitesnowboarding or mountain boarding in the winter 46) You take your gear with you on every romantic vacation or getaway (if your girl hasn't left you by now) 47) You have bought a couple women's wetsuits so your girlfriend has no excuse not to try it 48 You have asked all your friends to see if their grandma has a sewing machine 49) You would rule if Jeopardy ever had a category for "sail makers supply" 50) Your browser's "favorites" are filled with pages of endless wind meter links and kitesurfing sites..col Quote
getiton Posted September 15, 2003 Report Posted September 15, 2003 Right then Agger...... Over to you for a touch of: You know you are an Arse Scudder when..... Quote
Skydude Posted September 15, 2003 Report Posted September 15, 2003 Well i'm not a kitesurfer but I'm sure thinking about it now... Great piece of literary work........ Quote
kite-kid Posted September 15, 2003 Report Posted September 15, 2003 how do you get the flashing bits under your reply skydude Quote
getiton Posted September 15, 2003 Report Posted September 15, 2003 Originally posted by kite-kid how do you get the flashing bits under your reply skydude It is an animated gif.... look here http://www.kitecentral.co.uk/main-website/images/banners/kitecentral.gif Quote
carlos_climber Posted September 15, 2003 Report Posted September 15, 2003 This thread has done the rounds,,,,,BKSA, Kite-surf.com.... But very true....... Quote
schmik1599968584 Posted September 17, 2003 Report Posted September 17, 2003 I'm into landboarding but i have this strange feeling that i will be trying kitesurfing very soon. lovely post! schmik Quote
kite-kid Posted September 17, 2003 Report Posted September 17, 2003 go for it man, i kitesurf and landboard and i have to say that the kitesurfing is deffinatly the better also the waters a shed load forgiving than the land Quote
bushflyer Posted September 17, 2003 Report Posted September 17, 2003 i better buy the girlfriend a wetsuit now then:( Quote
NJblade_flyer Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 24 Dude you stole that from chicago kitesurfing, I've read it before. Quote
stevelives123 Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 So True! Applies to landboarding too i find! With obvious slight changes! Quote
mgs Posted September 22, 2003 Report Posted September 22, 2003 Gosh...That took some reading but you are spot on.....I have just started kitesurfing having done a course in Antigua about a month ago now...Blue clear warm waters,(No Wet suit needed) fine white sands with a cross on shore winds around 16 - 18 mph....and no tides...so you can kitesurf from dawn to dusk..... add that to the list as item 51 Quote
muppetdude1599968590 Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 you know when ..........your walking from the water kite up feeling smug after few hours on the waterwatching others flying on land /buggying even landboarding and thinking smug in the knowledge that your fix is higher stronger and deeper (and bloody expensive!) withdrawal symptoms due to lack of wind howver are severe Quote
burgy Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 Originally posted by muppetdude smug in the knowledge that your fix is higher stronger and deeper thats not kitesurfing, thats you Quote
muppetdude1599968590 Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 you know its confirmed when you get comments like that smug as a bug in a rug Quote
burgy Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 when your convinced all other kite flyers have got it wrong Quote
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