Bender said...

mineral1 said...

hardie said...

Naarrrgh!!!!

What's really cool these days, is to strap on a GPS, find a choppy speed strip....... get up to over 35knots, trip up the rail, and get a sling shot off ya harness line into a double somersault and land on ya arrse!!!!! Now that's Cool!!!!!!!!!

AND ITS CALLED "THE ELMO"

I did three perfect ones at lano on the weekend

Why does anything that involves pain or damaging your kit automatically be called "The Elmo"?

Why are people so unkind

555 said...

elmo said...
Why are people so unkind

The Aardvarks make them ornery..

I can see that would do it

what if Fonzie did a jump ? would that be cool ?? Heeeeey.

WindWarrior said...

i'd probably love backys more if i could ever freekin nail one

Yo windy,
You need to stop looking under your shoulder and start looking over it.
Watched a few of your attempts out at pelican point that day and you're stalling the rotation by looking under your arm.
Looking over your shoulder throws your head into the move... being the heaviest part of your body where your head goes the rest will follow

Keep working at it... you're not far off them

sussed the lookin overtheshoulder and focusing on a landing part...coming down way too much nose first (90deg) and either bailing OR doing my ear drum no favours at all....still love trying them though....

I dont think kiters actually jump, its not really a jump when you're dangling up there, shouldnt even be called a jump. it should be called something else like a float, or a feather trick, or "a petal in the wind", or "false levitate", or "mini ballooning".

I see ya point tho waveslave, a move isnt as cool when everyone can do it.

ok try 4 next time, when i land one i'll let you know....don't hold yer breath.....

revhead - lmao at petal in the wind, BUT i've seen a few of the L plater teabags at pinaroo come down like a sack of spuds off a 10 storey

yer not original enough to make up there own names for trick either, there all skateboard grabs, then stolen by snowboarding, then wakeboarding and now claimed by kiteboarders..

DL said...

I never understood the point of doing a grab when you have footstraps...

A 'superman' poley jump is a jump with a grab.
It's a bit old-skool now but still a styley move.

I looove doing big floaty jumps!! When you stall and drift backwards the feeling is sooo coool.Firetruck what anyone else thinks
Love doing backy's was landing em last season but no luck this season...must be age
Kiting "jumps" ,termed loosely ,look gay.Go paragliding if you want air with a kite you puss's.[}:)]

Leech said...
How many of your non-windsports friends/family have said "wow! look how high those windsurfers can jump" lately?

Two last week, both from work. They both saw picture of windsurfer in Gold Coast Bulletin taken over new year period while on (wet, miserable) holidays there. "Wow, I didn't know windsurfers could jump so high" were their comments, or something to that effect. I didn't see the photo myself, I live in a no-news bubble on purpose.

Windsurfing Double forwards. Double kite loops

LEACH Get off the beach and into the surf DOOD where the real action is.

Yes to the layman, the kite jumps on the inside canbe impressive,

So can the whole gybing AREA and wave riding flick out zone being taken up with 50meters of tampon string.



Stay down wind and do what you want

I was at the supermarket last night, it was blowing about twelve knots in the carpark and there were a couple of supermarket bags doing 'jumps' all over the place! I even saw one doing loops - proper end over end ones too...

They were doing a whole bunch of different rotations and spins that I'm sure have names, but not being a regular bag watcher I had problems telling one sort of spin from another.. I think it had something to do with the handles?

There were a bunch of other bags lined up against a fence, and one stuck up in a tree.

Applying kite-logic to the situation, I concluded that supermarket bags are cool, and that the ones I saw must have been 'jumping' for at least an hour to have that many tricks mastered!

555 you are now 007 ..... Great read

Must get some good waves over there ...........

Revhead said...

I dont think kiters actually jump, its not really a jump when you're dangling up there, shouldnt even be called a jump. it should be called something else like a float, or a feather trick, or "a petal in the wind", or "false levitate", or "mini ballooning".

They call it a "boost" don't they? That seems appropriate. They can have "boost" and "launch" and "loft" and "death flight" but not "jump".

An hero Aussie boy named Robbie Maddison holds the world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle. On December 31st he jumped his CR500 motorcross bike a distance of 98 meters.

Robbie did not float, loft, boost or levitate his bike over that distance, he jumped it.

He drank a great big can of HTFU and used a combination of speed and a ramp to achieve one big jump



But hey, maybe I'm mistaken... There could have been a long set of strings pulling his bike into the air