sorry wrong place

I dunno but there is a lot of selfland going on in the kite forums I think

BTW, Zork do you have a girlfriend called Zindy?

Bazooka sprang to my mind.

best way to self land a kite is to find a nice crowded beach with lots of kids playing in the shallows and building castles and do a dirty big power dive straight into the middle of everyone.

Mark _australia said...
can you please now explain what "yhanks" means?

I am guessing something about yanking and hankies?

I thought it was the noise a kiter makes in that split second between trying to self land the kite, and them being rag dolled 200 metres up the beach.

i think your on the money sausage,

yhanks is the point in time between the power dive into unsuspecting people on the beach and the rag doll.

for example,

the kiter initiated his "self landing" power dive into the unsuspecting crowd on the beach.

realising his error he "yhanks his bar"

and then sends the kite out of control up the beach dragging him along behind like a "ragdoll"

Scimitar, Samurai Sword, machete. Any of these will work.

zork said...

hi

what is the best way to selfland a bow kite

yhanks

with a shotgun and bird shot i suspect

drift said...

Where is "Self Land" and can you get tickets to fly there???

"Self Land" is the place I go - just quietly inside my head - as I deep breathe and say wooo saaahhhh after being dropped in yet again by some kiter who is in and out of perfect waves doing nothing with them........ except for bvgger them up for windsurfers......when he could go back n forth on the river just the same.
Saves me from thumping the idiots.

GO away troll kiter

Dont self land.
Just signal to a windsurfer on the beach to catch it for you.

As you have already worked out , they are a friendly bunch that are always willing to lend a hand to a fellow wind junkie.[}:)]

Come over to the kite forum mate,
you will only get shat on half as much over there.

I thought it was a pity the guy let go of the bar


So why not..........

zork said...

hi

what is the best way to selfland a bow kite

yhanks

Who's fland and what do you have against him that you'd want to sell him one of those?

Mark _australia said...

I thought it was a pity the guy let go of the bar


So why not..........

To be fair Mark, I'd better tell the story. The beach is about 20m to the right of the power lines. I was interested upon arriving to see kiters setting up (first time I'd been to this spot), and wondering how they'd launch immediately upwind of the power lines. Thought I'd hang around and watch. Kiter walks out (shallow) until lines are tight, friend launches kite. Kiter obviously could kite, couple of short tacks? and he's making ground upwind, thought all was good. Suddenly his whole bar set-up seperates from harness (something broke), kite goes over power lines, bar snags on power lines, kite lands. Gusts were powering up the landed kite and subsequently the bar was pulling the 2 power lines closer together. They quickly got on the phone to the power company to get power cut off.
Kiter asked me to stop taking photos, so I said I'd not put them on the internet, but hell, it was a while ago and the opportunity was too good to miss. He was unlucky, and they handled the situation well.

NotWal said...

zork said...

hi

what is the best way to selfland a bow kite

yhanks

Who's fland and what do you have against him that you'd want to sell him one of those?

Anyone else read that as "what is the best way to sell Fland a bow tie?"