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**** WIN an Airush Kite! ****

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Created by laurie > 9 months ago, 6 Oct 2008
laurie
WA, 3848 posts
6 Oct 2008 6:40PM
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Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa!

Yessirree .. time for the "Flying Objects Octoberfest"

How about these awesome prizes:

YOUR CHOICE of :

* An Airush Kite
* A Starboard Standup Paddle Board
* A Starboard Windsurfing board

You'll need to do some legwork for this competition though, and get a picture of the the Flying Objects logo somewhere interesting.

Click here to get all the goodness on how to get yourself tooled up with some new gear!
www.seabreeze.com.au/Members/Competitions/Entry.aspx?cid=C200810

The Prizes......


A Starboard Stand Up Paddle valued up to $2200...




An Airush Kite valued up to $2200




A Starboard Windsurfer valued up to $2200




kitecrazzzy
WA, 2184 posts
6 Oct 2008 11:05PM
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what about a flag... cus i can't think of anything that would be "legal" and good enough to win.

amp
67 posts
7 Oct 2008 1:15PM
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sweet! i'm gonna install photochop now!

xtortya
WA, 322 posts
7 Oct 2008 2:35PM
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Don't leave your gear on the beach, theres worse things out there than woodies locals No photo shop i promise


Noice!

Slack
WA, 685 posts
7 Oct 2008 3:31PM
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I came close last month, I'll just have to do better this time around.

Smedg
NSW, 836 posts
8 Oct 2008 9:53PM
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im far too lazy to win this comp and not funny enough for the last one... 1 vote for xtortya.

Auswind
WA, 398 posts
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8 Oct 2008 7:05PM
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Check out Blokey's entry.

Thats gold! great work

www.seabreeze.com.au/Members/Competitions/Entry.aspx?cid=C200810

blokey
WA, 36 posts
8 Oct 2008 7:36PM
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Glad at least someone appreciated it, didnt exactly wanna nude up in the middle of perth for nothing.

jonojonojono
79 posts
8 Oct 2008 8:03PM
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ACE!

newo
WA, 250 posts
8 Oct 2008 9:53PM
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Haha, the Murray street mall didnt know what hit it when blokey walked through there... I heard quotes such as "What the hell is Flying Objects".

For a good laugh and the rest of the 18 photo series you can check it out here...

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=164144&l=d67b4&id=871625466

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
10 Oct 2008 7:26PM
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thats not nudeing up,,,,,he still had thongs on

nanktank
SA, 12 posts
12 Oct 2008 10:19PM
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blokey.......that is champagne comedy

getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
13 Oct 2008 3:50PM
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GOLD blokey

Might as well finish the comp (or at least give blokey the kite) now I reckon..

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
17 Oct 2008 1:42PM
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I've put an autographed pic of Flying Objects Man on ebay under kitesurfing http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Flying-Objects-Man_W0QQitemZ280277359875QQihZ018QQcategoryZ58133QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem and my gf made a facebook group www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34991381145&ref=nf as well as a facebook page for FlyingObjects Man...

/prays workmates don't see it

There are extra pics up from the photoshoots you can all laugh at.

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
18 Oct 2008 4:26PM
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I'm doing the 100km event for the Around the Bay ride tomorrow starting at Sorrento. I'll be there as Flying Objects Man though unsure if I'll actually do the ride in costume because the outfit doesn't have padding for my nuts... 100km without padding = sterility

If anyone else is doing this ride and see's me come say hi :)

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
19 Oct 2008 3:53PM
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So...ended up doing the 100km Around The Bay event dressed up as Flying Objects Man. I got a lot of honks, whistles and catcalls as well as a heap of pics taken of me. Some guy even pulled up next to me on a motorbike and had the pillion video me for 5 mins. Several other riders did the same.

I made it into several websites and possibly the Herald Sun. They got pics but I don't know if they'll print one of me since they had thousands of riders/pics to choose from.

Keep an eye out for me on...

http://www.bv.com.au/ (bicycle victoria)
www.fusesports.com.au/ (official event photographers)
www.tourdecafe.com.au/ (will be on by tue/wed)
www.renewtek.com/ (this is the motorbike/video guys)

Coming through the finish line I also got pulled aside and interviewed. No idea where that might end up though because I was too dazed/exhausted to notice more than some guy shoving a microphone into my face.




insomniac_alcoholic
WA, 190 posts
19 Oct 2008 2:58PM
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Cut,

if it was just the ging, disturbing as that would have been, then you'd have had my vote.

Since you had the bike pants, my vote still goes to Blokey, especially since he didn't have the bike to get away on if the mob turned nasty

laurie
WA, 3848 posts
20 Oct 2008 3:28PM
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Awesome Cut - huge effort!

INfiniDIE
WA, 478 posts
20 Oct 2008 6:34PM
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OK lads I have an epic idea, but you gotta be smart to do it, It will get the most coverage but would def be hard to do.


You know the cloudwatch on ch. 10's 5pm news?? (WA)

How about getting a Flying Objects kite flying near the Narrows around the morning and maybe the cloud cam will pick it up and broadcast it to all of WA...heheh, of course its in timelapse so you'd need to kite for quite a while...

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
20 Oct 2008 10:43PM
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The Tour de Cafe owner just emailed me a copy of the pic he's putting up on his website. He asked me to show my guns...but I don't have any



Cut
VIC, 107 posts
24 Oct 2008 4:06PM
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Just got back from the city where I ran about as FO Man for a little bit in Flinders Station and on Swanson St. Got a few pics but not many turned out very well Blurred *sigh*





Headed to RPS right after and got a few pics outside and inside the store with Flying Objects gear and the staff. The guy who taught me how to kite (Brendan) tried to hide but I cornered him and we got a few shots A lot of blurred shots again...going to sack my camerawoman




Some of my pics are up on www.fusephotography.com.au site now. To find them just do a search on my race number (12786). The one where my head is turning away was when I was riding past some people out on their kites. There are other pics but I have to try and manually find them as my race number would have been obscured.

Time to hang up my g-string now. Been a lot of fun (possibly too much fun) but apparently I've now worn the missus' silver tights more times than she has.

Frangina
WA, 6 posts
25 Oct 2008 11:04AM
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My entry is a video:




It's clearly obvious that the people of Australia LOVE Flying Objects! Or at least the people at Warwick Train Station.

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
25 Oct 2008 5:36PM
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Ok I lied...I slipped into the g-string and tights just one more time for the Cancer Council of Victoria Relay for Life charity run/walk.





I'm going to put all these images into a slideshow and upload em to youtube as I have hundreds.

Casso
NSW, 3768 posts
26 Oct 2008 11:01PM
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Check out this cool entry:

gonuts
WA, 8 posts
26 Oct 2008 9:59PM
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it was an accident but it took 2 cars which were full of people to get me out that exposure eh

Ian Grose
TAS, 423 posts
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27 Oct 2008 1:45PM
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This was a Flying Object... got the photo on the wrong angle and can't see the FO sticker properly along the bottom of the doors.


Cut
VIC, 107 posts
27 Oct 2008 2:04PM
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That looks expensive

Shan
WA, 129 posts
30 Oct 2008 4:08PM
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Hey, check it out :) 15,880 Flying Objects adverts with logo all targeting existing kitesurfers and windsurfers and the number is growing every hour.

Do a search for Flying Objects in Facebook and it comes up in the top two results. Not bad considering there are 159 results for the term "Flying Objects"

If you don't have a Facebook account then you can view the other Flying Objects page here www.facebook.com/pages/Flying-Objects/31651239402
If you do have a Facebook login then join the Flying Objects group here www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45455675852

We currently have 63 members in the Flying Objects Group and 28 Fans in the Flying Objects Page totalling 91 people that have signed up in the past few days (this number is changing every hour) "Legal" Viral Marketing is one of the best ways to get a brand out ... If you consider that on average each member has 80 friends then 91 members x 80 friends = 7280 free Flying Objects adverts in facebook.. 7280 people may not have joined the group but they would have seen the Flying Objects logo when they log in to their facebook accounts.

But wait there's more. I posted links / logo to the Flying Objects pages on various water sports Facebook groups as listed below

575 members - Extreme Elements TV Facebook Group
1640 members -Tropical Paradise water sports Facebook Group
214 members - The Women of Kitesurfing Facebook Group
733 members - Kiteboarding is Life Facebook Group
3,068 members - Windsurfing. The greatest sport in the world Facebook Group
2,370 members - Kitesurfing Facebook Group
7,280 free Flying Objects adverts in Facebook through member signups

15,880 personal Flying Objects adverts and logo all targeting existing kitesurfers and windsurfers

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
30 Oct 2008 6:49PM
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I joined the Flying Objects group with Flyingobjects Man's facebook account

On another note...going to work tonight is going to be embarrassing. Apparently they've put a couple of pics on the noticeboard at work of me in my costume at the Around the Bay ride and the Walk for Life event. I work at Crown Casino and entered those charity events as part of the Crown team.

8000 people work at Crown and walk past that noticeboard I get enough randoms at work teasing me as it is...


colinwill78
VIC, 1395 posts
31 Oct 2008 11:31AM
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Cut said...


8000 people work at Crown and walk past that noticeboard I get enough randoms at work teasing me as it is...





8,000..... that's more people than the entire town where i grew up

Cut
VIC, 107 posts
31 Oct 2008 1:19PM
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colinwill78 said...

Cut said...


8000 people work at Crown and walk past that noticeboard I get enough randoms at work teasing me as it is...





8,000..... that's more people than the entire town where i grew up



Yah, Crown is like a mini city within Melbourne. I've worked in several casino's but nothing compares to this one

So anyway...I did get teased a bit last night but in a good way I guess. Too many people are yelling out "hey superman!" and I'm like "no no I'm Flying Objects Ma...yeh superman....thats it..." I should make pamphlets to hand out so I don't have to keep explaining myself.

Some woman came up to me and said she'd shown her kids all my pics on facebook and played em that slideshow and they laughed and laughed and laughed!




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