Posted on 07/18/2010 7:28:42 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
John Kerry was in Vietnam
Glad you posted this. Bump for later read
Fun time all round:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8zTftLV0NQ
That was fake video. Anyway, I’ve seen the speed the kite surfers can attain and it is absolutely amazing. Faster than jet skis!
Dang it! You beat me to it.
I know it was fake. I just thought it was funny.
I kitesurf. It’s FUUUUUUUN! Was easy for me to pick it up. I have a long history of windsurfing, sailing, and surfing,it his certainly helped. I don’t think I spent more than an hour practicing flying the kite on the beach before I was ready to go.
What’s really nice about it is the air time you can get to do some pretty nice tricks.
I watched the kite surfing National event just outside Louis Corriea Brazil in a small community “Coconut Beach”
It was neat to see them go and jump, I talked to a couple of the surfers they were saying that that beach and area was one of the best places in the world to do it because of the cross winds out in the cove.
All and all it’s a pretty neat sport
Its hard to learn and dangerous as hell. Very fun to do but not real cheap to start.
Would you say it is the most fun of all the sports you mentioned?
“I kitesurf. It’s FUUUUUUUN! Was easy for me to pick it up. I have a long history of windsurfing, sailing, and surfing,it his certainly helped. I don’t think I spent more than an hour practicing flying the kite on the beach before I was ready to go.”
I doubt it is easy to learn by somebody with ZERO experience surfing, windsailing, sailing, etc.
They are all good, but personally I think a good day with great surf is the most fun. If you want pure speed and jumps, it’s kite surfing.
Saw LOTS of it at the Outer Banks region of N.C.
There was even a hotel devoted to it.
I’d have to say my favorite would have to be sailing my Hobiecat off the beach and trolling for fish at the same time.
You should see how people on the beach trip out when I hit the beach with a stringer full of King Mackeral and Mahi Mahi.
That being said I’m sure my answer would be different if I was still living on Hatteras Island where beach sailing would be way more difficult due to the bigger surf and much more wind.
The friends I left back in Hatteras tell me kitesurfing has taken off big time since I left in ‘95. Been living on the Florida panhandle since. Not so much surf here.
I’d have to say my favorite would have to be sailing my Hobiecat off the beach and trolling for fish at the same time.
You should see how people on the beach trip out when I hit the beach with a stringer full of King Mackeral and Mahi Mahi.
That being said I’m sure my answer would be different if I was still living on Hatteras Island where beach sailing would be way more difficult due to the bigger surf and much more wind.
The friends I left back in Hatteras tell me kitesurfing has taken off big time since I left in ‘95. Been living on the Florida panhandle since. Not so much surf here.
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