Geez, don't you hate it when you make a noob mistake, even with a few years kiting under your belt.

Rigged up and ready to go at Leightons on Saturday. Good breeze, decent swell, keen to get out there.

Ask a Canadian guy for a launch, hook up the safety and the Chicken Loop, he picks up the kite, then puts it down again and tells me he reckons my lines should be attached to my kite.

Doh!

Would have been a touch under powered I reckon.

Name and shame.

Hate it when I'm pumping my kite and nothing is happening... then I realise I forgot to close the dump valve. All that wasted effort

Dutchy, that is priceless - I had a nice chuckle as well.

All of the above are 24 carat!

Man - and I felt bad rigging my front line looped thru by back recently.

Boy that would have been a sight if the Mounty had released ya kite Ben!

Ben De Jonge said...

Geez, don't you hate it when you make a noob mistake, even with a few years kiting under your belt.

Rigged up and ready to go at Leightons on Saturday. Good breeze, decent swell, keen to get out there.

Ask a Canadian guy for a launch, hook up the safety and the Chicken Loop, he picks up the kite, then puts it down again and tells me he reckons my lines should be attached to my kite.

Doh!

Would have been a touch under powered I reckon.

Name and shame.

LOL's mate, hows my effort, asked for a launch went to hook in, launcher holding kite all ready, but I had not only forgotten to put my harness on I had left it back at the shop!!!
LOL's

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

Iv'e launched then gone to grab my board only to realise its still in the van.. Also did a down winder once and left my keys in my mates car up wind. Was thinking it was going to be a very very very long jog up the beach only to find that not only had i left my spare keys in the van but not even shut the drivers side door......... Sweet nothing missing or nothing Just now realizing i've admitted too much..

YOU GUYS ARE A LOAD OF NOOBS.

Got someone to launch my kite, put my harness on and when I tried to hook in I suddenly realised I had rigged my spreaderbar upside down so the hook was staring up at me :(

these are all gold, but no-one can beat waxing the bottom a a surfboard. -seriously. although i did have to point out to a fellow aussie that its the bottom of a snowboard that gets waxed.

Ben De Jonge said...

Geez, don't you hate it when you make a noob mistake, even with a few years kiting under your belt.

Rigged up and ready to go at Leightons on Saturday. Good breeze, decent swell, keen to get out there.

Ask a Canadian guy for a launch, hook up the safety and the Chicken Loop, he picks up the kite, then puts it down again and tells me he reckons my lines should be attached to my kite.

Doh!

Would have been a touch under powered I reckon.

Name and shame.

now thats 100% depower!

Maybe the guys who waxed the bottom of their surfboards just wanted a bit more speed.. (a gloss bottom finish is slow through the water compared to a matte finish - its to do with air bubbles and less resistance).

Put my harness on upside down, got ready to launch, went to put in chicken loop and DOH!!!!

Gone out kiting before with my prescription glasses on and suddenly realised it was a tad bright. Had to head back and fetch my prescription sunnies making sure not to fall so I didn't lose my normal glasses.

Not quite kiting related but I remember a mate of mine complaining to me that his new open back scuba fins were the most uncomfortable bastards out. When I took a look at them I realised he was using with with the plastic piece in them that holds it in shape. He'd only ever used closed back so he didn't know any different.

And then there was Matt's fall which is still one of the funniest wipeouts to date. (sorry, I had to post it again, Matt)

i once forgot my booties and got my feet cut up on all the rocks, it hurt.

tgladman said...

these are all gold, but no-one can beat waxing the bottom a a surfboard. -seriously. although i did have to point out to a fellow aussie that its the bottom of a snowboard that gets waxed.

You wax a snowboard???.... haha

Miss Jessie said...

dropped my kiteboard on my big toe... Most painful injury in my whole life! It was black in a matter of mins, had its own heat beat for 3 days ,took a month to fall off and a year to grow back... If only I knew u have to put a pin thro it!!!

Miss Jessie! Wait a minute!

Your big toe took a month to fall off and it regrew in a year WTF

DAMN! Thats weird.

KH