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What's going on at Woodies today (28-Jan-09)

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Created by Danger Mouse > 9 months ago, 28 Jan 2010
Danger Mouse
WA, 592 posts
28 Jan 2010 12:51PM
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A mate just emailed me asking what's going on at woodies, he said there's signs up everywhere saying that the beach is closed to everyone except kiters today :S

Anyone got any ideas?

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pi22api22a
WA, 150 posts
28 Jan 2010 12:58PM
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Is the wind even in yet???

Danger Mouse
WA, 592 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:01PM
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Nope, not from the look of it (I work about 5 mins drive from Woodies and the trees aren't moving too much at all) That's why I'm thinking someone must be setting up for some kind of event, but can't see any WAKSA related events :S

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wal269
WA, 718 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:05PM
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I was told Dre and Susi mai are in town....

loverboy
WA, 614 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:06PM
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would it be the Core slider jam maybe ?

loverboy
WA, 614 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:06PM
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wal269 said...

I was told Dre and Susi mai are in town....


i was told you like Dre more than Susi....

Danger Mouse
WA, 592 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:07PM
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wal269 said...

I was told Dre and Susi mai are in town....


NO S**T, I am meant to be taking a date down the beach for Fish n Chips around Coogee too, don't know how she'll go if I'm ogling Susi with my tongue on the ground though. ROFPMSL

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wal269
WA, 718 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:12PM
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Nah, I kicked Dre out last month after he became to emotional and needy.

Anyway, I was told you like me more than Susi....

Now that is sick.

Hayes
WA, 1 posts
28 Jan 2010 1:31PM
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Get back to work Damo

Danger Mouse
WA, 592 posts
28 Jan 2010 3:29PM
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Hayes said...

Get back to work Damo


How about you do the same Hayesy :P

bingles
WA, 363 posts
31 Jan 2010 8:41AM
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So there's supposed to be some of the best riders in the world in town at the moment for Core slider jam? So whats the score?? got canned yesterday?? So why werent these blokes (oh and girls) out doin some megaloops yerterday?? Or were they....

hoop
1979 posts
31 Jan 2010 9:38AM
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Is it on today? I was going to go and have a look.

Swissy
WA, 12 posts
31 Jan 2010 10:17AM
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Not just any kiters only the once signed up for the sliders. And they are so disorganised that they are not even on the water unthil 4 or 5 every evening.

choicey
QLD, 280 posts
31 Jan 2010 1:28PM
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The "best in the world " went home at 30 kn.... what the?
I wonder if they came to WA because they heard it's windy?
"Hardcore pro's" packing up in 30 will ruin the sports reputation...
Len10 would have been out there....

iti
QLD, 417 posts
31 Jan 2010 2:14PM
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Choicey Bro,

Lenten would of been out one beach one pulling massive double loops in front of use on the rocks watching enjoying our beers,

lest the Dutch would be tough.

Russ

mikekx102
WA, 70 posts
31 Jan 2010 12:22PM
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haha choicey well i was out there at scarbs in 30 knots it was so awesome eh i was tryin all the kiteloops and *&^#$% did i go high. i was trying to go upwind with the kite fully depowered, then i'd edge really hard, fully power it up and go for it my favourite was when i boosted, then did a downloop it was MAD!

sk1nner
VIC, 181 posts
31 Jan 2010 3:27PM
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Who was out on the Black and Red RPM yesterday on beach 3 in 30kn+ (30th Jan)?

Respect...Those kiteloops were huge, you could see the height from the car park a few hundred meters away.

Spacemonkey!
SA, 2288 posts
31 Jan 2010 3:20PM
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If you punters are doing it, why would you be impressed seeing pros do it.

mikekx102
WA, 70 posts
31 Jan 2010 2:01PM
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well i cant do handlepasses yet, so aaron hadlow impresses me. he makes it look so easy and ruben lenten can actually land the kiteloops smoothly and he goes higher when he does them.

poor relative
WA, 9089 posts
31 Jan 2010 7:26PM
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choicey said...

The "best in the world " went home at 30 kn.... what the?



LOL thats classic.
Its like a F1 racing driver refusing to go out because the track is wet LOL

Spacemonkey!
SA, 2288 posts
31 Jan 2010 11:47PM
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I dunno,

Kites are really not designed well in general for wakestyle stuff, they turn at light speed as soon as you take one hand off the bar. In high winds like that have to be on small really zippy twitchy kites, not to mention the obstacles themselves move about. In high winds only takes a split second to fall off and get pulled into the obstacle. Would be a bit more safe with no leash but who wants to go fetch all the kites being released.

I would say it's more like sky divers not going out in a thunderstorm.

hoop
1979 posts
31 Jan 2010 9:30PM
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No really, kites aren't designed for strong wind. Fair enough, you can't be too careful.
Better luck next time. Never mind.

poor relative
WA, 9089 posts
31 Jan 2010 9:34PM
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Fair enough i guess but would have been good to see them do other stuff.

There was reasonable swell around, they could have done some freeride stuff - loops, big jumps etc etc
If they are the best in the world then i would have thought they can perform good stuff in all conditions wild and not so wild.

andrewm
WA, 243 posts
31 Jan 2010 9:42PM
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aaron was out there doing some pretty big loops on saturday

scoop
86 posts
1 Feb 2010 6:39AM
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