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Forums > Kitesurfing General

Desperately seeking sandbar boosting advice

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Created by wishy > 9 months ago, 31 May 2010
wishy
WA, 1501 posts
31 May 2010 9:26PM
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After sunday's events I'm hoping someone can offer me some advice for boosting over sandbars.
1. How do you get maximum height?
2. Which direction do you actually go when you're airborne? (not straight downwind?)
3. How much water do you need underneath you to land it?
4. When is the right moment to loop the kite? (and should I loop my 11m)
5. Where is a good ankle physio?

Saffer
VIC, 4501 posts
31 May 2010 11:52PM
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lol

flipper4444
VIC, 1214 posts
31 May 2010 11:53PM
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lol where is that beach dude? a you a mate of waveslave?

Clintos
QLD, 88 posts
1 Jun 2010 12:14AM
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haha... that was Wello on Sunday...
Got anymore vids?

StinkyPete
WA, 241 posts
31 May 2010 10:23PM
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You sound like a tool. Maybe practice jumping in deeper water and not over sand. And looping the kite?????? Next time it could be your neck or spine not your ankle. Kook.

gruezi
WA, 3464 posts
31 May 2010 10:56PM
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Wear boots, loop the kite and grab the nose........you'll be right.

KiteNutt
QLD, 280 posts
1 Jun 2010 7:08AM
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Wishy ya funny tool,
Been over that bar many times... My advise, don't do it in a westerly and be prepared for some Wello rash when it all goes wrong.
And it will

tatkins
QLD, 344 posts
1 Jun 2010 8:33AM
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Start by learning a simple beach start:

SaveTheWhales
WA, 1877 posts
1 Jun 2010 9:03AM
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lol Wishy youre my new 'not so Super flying Hero'

Ok now lets make all this more painful than your ankle ..

1. You should have been at max speed beering (maybe too many beforehand ) off a little more before the Lock n Load point.

2. Loaded for too long & lost momentum - need to flick the board faster & more aggresively. I suspect you were concentrating too much on the Movie Star camera

3. Kitepositioning STUDY THIS look closely at the 17 & 18 second mark in still frames - youre kite was down in the power zone which is why it nearly pulled you over the front (not upwards) and goin the opposite direction....It was all over before it started

4. You forgot to fly the kite forward and it stalled the momentum.. if the kite was shot forward at full power exactly on splashdown (timing) you would have been able to pull it off in that shallow stuff.

5. Shallow stuff is stoooopid if you post it online

6. Im glad you didnt get any airtime or you would have landed on the sand for sure and maybe seen your leg/ ankle snap.

7. forget the Kiteloop just concentrate on speed and distance part first !

8. More beers may have been needed for them super Powers to kick in

9. Great kite - operator abuse

10. No boardies over wetties = No big arse jumpin

INMO

Cheers

Gorgo
VIC, 5041 posts
1 Jun 2010 1:22PM
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If you have to ask then don't try it.

TurtleHunter
WA, 1675 posts
1 Jun 2010 12:56PM
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Haha massive. Why is it that everyone try's jumping things when your still working the kite for power

dave......
WA, 2119 posts
1 Jun 2010 1:00PM
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No offense, but you shouldn't be jumping anything until you can correctly boost.

captian
39 posts
1 Jun 2010 3:26PM
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try jumping it when the tide is in a little bit more so you got less to jump and get bigger as in goes out

rusty7
QLD, 504 posts
1 Jun 2010 7:41PM
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try jumping .....full stop!!!

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
2 Jun 2010 9:27PM
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Here's my pro tip: don't f**k up!

Oh wait, that's what you posted in the first clip

Mister Dugong
368 posts
3 Jun 2010 9:26PM
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10. No boardies over wetties = No big arse jumpin




So wearing boardies over your wetty is to guard against Nut Slap on the water? coz cooler people boost higher? or both?

SaveTheWhales
WA, 1877 posts
3 Jun 2010 10:14PM
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Haaaa wotzy

I dont actually wear them at all - but apparently when you do wipe out on a Big Arse Jump... It stops all the gay kiters on the beach perving on your Nuts during your B & D spanking

Now be honest & tell us that youve looked with curiousty at them before

All good fun

bjw
QLD, 3663 posts
4 Jun 2010 6:47PM
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You might have only jumped 3 foot but you have to claim it to be higher.

Chances are no one saw it anyway.

So I would have claimed that as 10 foot.

Also have a go over rocks. That way you have more to lose so there is actually less chance of not making it.

Also when you land you have to duck crown salute. That is important.

Smedg
NSW, 836 posts
4 Jun 2010 10:23PM
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don't waste your time on that sand bar when the currumbin wall is less than 2hrs south.



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