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Originally posted by xtortya

weirder, but no where near as hot.

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stop it

LMAO, bam you bite every time.

You replying all the time is what is driving my point home mate -

I am beside everything.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

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Originally posted by poor relative

LMAO Stevie, you have to resort to petty name calling to drive your point home hahahhahaha
I thought you were above all that. Clearly i was wrong....


You are indeed weirder than me.

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Originally posted by Kitepower Australia
I reckon you might be onto the truth there Mr Float, so all the older kiters, like the slave and rello, are paranoid about being seens as w.a.n.k.e.r.s. with little pumps?

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Those cute little pumps....
lol.
I haven't seen those teener-wiener toy handpumps in years.
Every good kitebag contained one in the old days.
Now you get big, jumbo, f.u.c.k off pumps.
Dual capacity with a pressure gauge that craps out faster than a cheap Chinese watch.
(Does anyone ever use that deflate nozzle on the T-bar) ?
I mean, what's it for ?

Steve gives away complimentary toy handpumps to all the valued customers at his kitestore.
He ran out of fridge magnets and ballpoint pens.

The free handpump reads;
Kitepower Australia
Phone (02)95296894
"less kiting, more pumping"
Keep it low and GO!

But back on topic.....
Doonas need to be inflated to fly.
And I really get a kick from watching them naturally inflate on the beach.
No seriously, I really love it.

They suck up the breeze thru their large, hairy nostrils and puff-up into something soft and cuddly.
It's just like magic.

And when I see the fluffed-up doona,
I just want to run down and jump on the thing.
lol.
I do.
I just want to romp and roll and play bouncy-castle on it.
But I restrain myself.

But when they finally get launched into the sky,
a truckload of sand is flung downwind for 50 metres all over the unsuspecting families.
That's fun too.

Lucky for us we don't see too many doonas at the local pointbreak.
That's because the launch is deadmeat.
The wind direction is cross-off and the hill creates a hell wind shadow.
And everytime they build another macmansion, it only gets worse.

Those large kite-nostrils just can't seem to suck up enough seabreeze fast enough.
The kite is flaccid.
Maybe one of those noisey leaf-blowers could give a better blowjob.

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Originally posted by waveslave

Lucky for us we don't see too many doonas at the local pointbreak.
That's because the launch is deadmeat.
The wind direction is cross-off and the hill creates a hell wind shadow.
And everytime they build another macmansion, it only gets worse.

Those large kite-nostrils just can't seem to suck up enough seabreeze fast enough.
The kite is flaccid.
Maybe one of those noisey leaf-blowers could give a better blowjob.

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If the wind shadow is that bad, how do you get your LEI launched there?

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Originally posted by mrbonk

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Originally posted by waveslave

Lucky for us we don't see too many doonas at the local pointbreak.
That's because the launch is deadmeat.
The wind direction is cross-off and the hill creates a hell wind shadow.
And everytime they build another macmansion, it only gets worse.

Those large kite-nostrils just can't seem to suck up enough seabreeze fast enough.
The kite is flaccid.
Maybe one of those noisey leaf-blowers could give a better blowjob.

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If the wind shadow is that bad, how do you get your LEI launched there?

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We drift launch.
Don't try that with your doona.

what would happen if someone flew a PL kite from a stationary crane. Could they fly it down to 6 o'clock? Would it auto zennith from below 9 o'clock? or would it just luff and fall down wind until it could climb again?

What about an inflato being flown from a crane, would that naturally sit at 6 o'clock, gently pulling down?

I realise this doesn't have an application in kite surfing.

Now we're getting somewhere!
Do they turn better clockwise in the southern hemisphere? I'm sure it's got something to do with the Coriolis effect.....
They also seem to be a very effective sedative, at least, whenever I launch a foil the other tube kiters all seem to start yawning....

Sounds like the kind of beach where if you can get your kite up, you deserve to be there!

I like it heaps.

There should be bans on the spot, like for anyone anywhere who cant self land.
They stand out on their lonely wind swept beach hoping someone will run th 500m to help.
They need crash tackling and wet sand poured on their pink waroos!

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Originally posted by meerkat

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what would happen if someone flew a PL kite from a stationary crane. Could they fly it down to 6 o'clock? Would it auto zennith from below 9 o'clock? or would it just luff and fall down wind until it could climb again?

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Thats a good point and begs the question.

If you buy an auto-zenithing kite from the northern hemisphere and then fly it in the southern hemisphere will the kite get confused and think down is up and up is down? could mean your kite would auto crash instead of auto-zenith.

Do the kites have an invert option? like on an xbox controller?

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i see you've also given this alot of thought.

I think i have it worked out!!!
because Foils are crap (depends who you ask - not my personal opionion )they actaully fall off the bottom of the earth, giving Australians the perception of Auto zennith.

Come to think of it i used to have a kite that would only fly in the southern hemisphere and not in the northern hemisphere.
I'm not telling you what kind of kite it was though

come on colin still waiting.. name the kite!

Cwamit,
there is too such a kite!!!!!!, it was....... ummmm.......well you see.......... I ........ ummmmm........ can't remember what it was,
i bet waveslave could though but he won't do it for a cent under a million gazillion centillion dollars ($US) and i honestly suspect you don't have that kind of money am i right??
there see..... i knew it!!!

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Originally posted by colinwill78



what would happen if someone flew a PL kite from a stationary crane. Could they fly it down to 6 o'clock? Would it auto zennith from below 9 o'clock? or would it just luff and fall down wind until it could climb again?

What about an inflato being flown from a crane, would that naturally sit at 6 o'clock, gently pulling down?

I realise this doesn't have an application in kite surfing.

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Depends on how high your boosting.!!

Why would the kite luff?, the kite is flying into the wind, up and down is relative to you not the wind. I would think if anything the effect would be more due to gravity. negative zeneth.

This is why the kite zeneth's on both sides of the world, except in the north you obviously standing upside down, so it just looks like its auto zenething, its actually negative zeneth.

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Fascinating... so to expand (no pun intended) on this a little further, how would you describe the kite behavour in a zero gravity environment?

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Originally posted by cwamit

Fascinating... so to expand (no pun intended) on this a little further, how would you describe the kite behavour in a zero gravity environment?

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Would there be an atmosphere or not,
most zero-gravity also has no wind (due to the lack of the air)(apart from the solar wind, which doesn't help)

Otherwise i would say the performance would be fairly sloppy, except for a BOW, they can do anything

Ok, now I'm really serious.
The bet is on!
The stake is a gabzilion, billion, zillion trillion, maximillion, xxillion, dollars, and ten cents.
Name the kite slave, or write us some more kooky poetry, with some lols in it.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

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