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kitingtopher > 9 months ago, 28 Aug 2011

nice!

i particularily liked the "threading the needle" through the skinny.

any croc's?

theres one thing missing. boosting over some swamp tree's

Lastly. it would be a night mare if you dropped your kite into the swamp bushes.

treedweller

QLD

59 posts

29 Aug 2011 8:38am

keep flapping mate mate

one day you will fly

kitingtopher

313 posts

29 Aug 2011 9:11am

GalahOnTheBay

NSW

4188 posts

29 Aug 2011 9:51am

Cool vid - thanks for sharing.

Now please tell us where that is...

(joking!)

Nice flat water, but I'm not so keen about that narrow bit

Plummet

4862 posts

29 Aug 2011 9:37am

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kitingtopher said...

Sweet. I like a good huck over something. It shows commitment and good timing. Its one thing to lay down a decent boost. another thing entirely to time it over something hard or spikey.

I was bouldering on sunday on the landboard. Jumping over this nicely placed boulder. managed a few wheel taps on the way over too. alas the gopro housing is busted at the moment to no footage.

Lang

66 posts

29 Aug 2011 11:36am

Sweet run

St Kilda, north of Adelaide?

LostinSpace

QLD

388 posts

29 Aug 2011 1:06pm

That was classic and inspirational. I will now never look at a swamp the same way from now

Kitepower Australia

NSW

4382 posts

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29 Aug 2011 1:36pm

Awesome spot, thanks for sharing, The Rally looked good!

kitingtopher

313 posts

29 Aug 2011 2:23pm

its second creek , just south of tumby bay, 5 minutes from home.I was testing the gopro yesterday. That is under half of the tac.

Chaps

91 posts

29 Aug 2011 2:50pm

So when are you gonna show footage of a boost over Tumby Jetty? Or maybe a rail grind over the pontoon?

Kitesplosh

VIC

123 posts

29 Aug 2011 4:57pm

Great vid and awesome spot. One tip for the new go-pro: get some RainOx from Kmart or any car store and put on the gopro case. You'll have fewer drops of water on the lens.

kitingtopher

313 posts

29 Aug 2011 4:31pm

ta . alot of the footage had drops on

Big eeeZeee

NSW

1100 posts

29 Aug 2011 5:29pm

that's one hell of a walk through the swamp if the wind dies or your gear poops itself... nice vids!

KiteDevil

TAS

778 posts

29 Aug 2011 9:20pm

Glassy, remote, I like that. Good one.

dafunk

QLD

561 posts

29 Aug 2011 9:22pm

thats star treck
boldly going where no kite has gone before
nice one

Jonopark

400 posts

29 Aug 2011 8:06pm

10 bloody 10!!!!
That was awesome. Never seen anything like that before. Now my mind starts to wonder the possibities here! But with pollution always afraid of still water!

gesper

NSW

518 posts

29 Aug 2011 10:27pm

Great vid. To me thats what gives the most pleasure in kiting , to find a place where no-one has kited before away from the crowds . Flat water , creeks to kite through, mangroves to jump over and to share it with a few mates . Well done.

Bubb

2 posts

29 Aug 2011 8:37pm

Fun stuff

What type of kite / board u got?

kitingtopher

313 posts

29 Aug 2011 11:07pm

kite is rally. board is home made 136x38 single concave cedar glass/west system epoxy finished with 2k paints.

easto

116 posts

29 Aug 2011 9:53pm

So the Go Pro is working well Tofa...
Top vid... will join you soon. Sat looking the goods.

kitingtopher

313 posts

30 Aug 2011 8:33am

alwayskeen

Rhys McClintock

NSW

995 posts

30 Aug 2011 12:16pm

So how did you get back? Surely you didn't slog it all the way back through that channel upwind too lol?

kovi

VIC

122 posts

30 Aug 2011 12:27pm

WOW

moons

349 posts

30 Aug 2011 10:38am

Cool,... I want a secret swamp

kiter zac

QLD

295 posts

30 Aug 2011 1:37pm

nice flatwater, i like how you were pumping the bar when you did a boost

stabber

NSW

1114 posts

30 Aug 2011 5:44pm

As Lloyd would say in Dumb and Dumber...."I like it alot"

kitingtopher

313 posts

30 Aug 2011 5:51pm

Rhys, how did i get back? the creek has a main section after you get out of the botlle neck and run down about 80 metres and you can get back to where you came from in about 3 tacs, if its westerly and crankin you can go back down the slot

Rattlehead

QLD

555 posts

30 Aug 2011 8:43pm

If that's a swamp ,I'd hate to see what you'd call the dirty muddy water we sail in .........and we are on an open bay....

Is that tidal?

Love the video

daggy

528 posts

30 Aug 2011 9:06pm

how deep is that water?
like if you have gear failure how do you get out?

so jealous, great spot

LostinSpace

QLD

388 posts

31 Aug 2011 5:00am

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kitingtopher said...

Rhys, how did i get back? the creek has a main section after you get out of the botlle neck and run down about 80 metres and you can get back to where you came from in about 3 tacs, if its westerly and crankin you can go back down the slot

I don't mind a few slots myself

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