When you are a surfer as well and say "F&*%en easterlies all f*&$@en day for f@&^%s sake!! - Why can't we have a f*&+#en sea breeze" then you stop the rant and realise what you just said....
Oh well if only some swell actually came with the easterlies in Perth I would never be bored.

Getfunky

... you sort through, edit & update your 'contacts' into your new phone directory and find that in only 12 months your "kite file" already outnumbers your "client file" & "business file" combined .
GREAT - I JUST LOVE THAT
Clients & business do not add to TOW at all

"He who enjoys most - WINS"

I no longer work out my hourly earnings in reference to food, beer, mortgage etc but rather how many hours worked to afford the kite that i want, or a new board..Money used to be referred to as fun vouchers, now its called kiting vouchers...

All I think about when planning the easter holiday with +1 is, where are the beaches that I will accidentally stumble upon while travelling around. Oh and look 'dear' what a beautiful bay and 20 knot breeze, you dont mind sitting around for an hour of so..... do you

when you need Vioxx and Celebrex to go kitesurf...

When you start to say 'Don't be such a chickenloop'
When you say 'That persons a bit of a kiteloop, i mean fruitloop'
When your walking the dog in the park & you pick up a stick & instead of throwing it for him, you practice handle passes.
When you start having crazy ideas like thinking you can use a maccas tray as a board.

when instead of writing down a meassage on the forum u use the keyboard to practice your no foot tricks

when its raining,
and you still go to the beach.


and youre not the only one there sitting...watching...suffering...

You work as an Instructor and have not been able to get any lessons done due to no wind for a week. Your wallet is empty, no fuel in the car and no food at home, on the first windy day you cancel all your lessons just so you can go riding, at the end of the day you ask yourself was it really worth it? Yes!

It Ain't fun unless it goes 20+

when your girlfriend says "lets go on holidays to ...." and your only question is "whats the wind like there?".

when you sell your car to buy a more appropriate 4wd to get to that hidden kiteing spot.

when you dedicate a spare room in your house as a kiteing room and its too full to move.

when you realize all the magazines in the bathroom at kiter mags

when you cant help but go into the kite shop you just passed to see if anything new has come out.

when you move house cause it takes too damm long to get to the beach from where i live now.

When your split into two minds......

Happy there is no wind so you can recover from being sore & from rashes after 5 hours or more kiting everyday that its windy..... I love my job!


So amped up from watching vids on the no wind days you spend half the day sniffing for wind & reading the graphs waiting for a chance to try your next trick.

...... youve already spent Saturday kiting at Inverloch after driving down from Melbourne but Sunday drive to the Wilson's Prom side of Shallow Inlet for better wind before driving back to Inverloch the same day still searching but decide that Altona's high tide is the place to be that evening so continue on directly there with so much impatience that stopping for a leak is going to waste an extra 2 minutes so you attempt to relieve yourself into a Gatorade bottle whilst driving but decide it's a 'wee' bit dangerous to 'pull off' (so to speak) and pull over only to find it was much better stopping due to the strange suction effect you discover upon attempting to withdraw yourself from the bottle (any questions speak to MrPlow - thankfully we drove separately & you actually sailed in all that Altona filth after the heaviest rain on record!)
New levels of desperation have been attained.

When your mates start saying "Yes we know ." to every comment you make about kitesurfing and they don't kitesurf .

It's not my fault they dont know what they are missing
at least it leave a little more room on the water .

You know when your addicted when

Your car gets stolen and you still had a good day kiting!!!!

When you go night kiting on a SW,it swings SE and is really drops out but you dont care, u keep on going

As a non sponsored kiter you've owned 12 kites and 8 different boards and your girlfriend thinks you have an internet lover due to the amount of time you spend perusing this site!