looking at all these photos i think i need to find some flat water! learning at the beach just isn't the same.

Greenpat. tell those oldies on the sore knees thread they need to work more on jumps like this... Nice pic.

GreenPat said...

This has to be one of my all time favourites, Bertrand at The Gorge.

Now that's Wakestyle!!

GreenPat said...

This has to be one of my all time favourites, Bertrand at The Gorge.

Good move-shame he's such a w@nker......

Yep......when I hear one.

So does that chicken loop run up your leash when you unhook Macca? And have to run back down it to hook back in?

hood rat said...

fozzy said...

^^^^^^

Actually kiteloops aren't wakestyle. They're freestyle. Cool, but not Wakestyle.

more wakestyle than freestyle.. if it was freestyle his kite would loop twice maybe 3 or 4 times sending him to the ocean softer than a pillow

Errr... No!

I'm sure this has been argued plenty before so I will be brief and then say no more on it. Wakestyle derives its label from Wakeboarding. Wakeboarding is done behind a boat. This is replicated by parking your kite and loading and popping into your tricks without any lift from the kite. Given boats don't loop, KL's are not wakestyle.

Now this is not to say KL's don't take balls and hell commitment if doing one like Bertrand in the photo but Wakestyle they aint.

Right, that's it as this has nothing to do with favourite pictures.

hood rat said...

fozzy said...

^^^^^^

Actually kiteloops aren't wakestyle. They're freestyle. Cool, but not Wakestyle.

more wakestyle than freestyle.. if it was freestyle his kite would loop twice maybe 3 or 4 times sending him to the ocean softer than a pillow

Hood rats' got it!

hahaha grumpy OLD man.

Macca Wollongong said...

Gaylie?

Hard to tell from the angle but im acctully unhooked, but have my arms bent.

I use a seat harness too, so very hard to do a gaily that big lol

Just to point out, the leash is connected to the chicken loop on the inside of the loop (new ozone chicken loop with the suercide hook

:P

My apologies Macca

Tobii said...



You'd think i was too shallow at the river... but i assure you it's an optical illusion and i'm well outside the bouys..............

i love this oneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
hahahahahaha
i took it lol