Bigwavedave is off to live in Finland for a year or more.
Thanks to all the maniacs on this site for an entertaining 7 years of pointless banter.
No kiting for me for a while.
There will be wind next Thursday guaranteed. That's when I fly out of here.
I want to come back to a sport that's still legal so do me a favour?
If you see someone doing something stoopid at your local, SAY SOMETHING.
There will always be noobs but they only turn into kooks if you don't correct them.
One last piece of advice:
FOR F@#K'S SAKE LEARN TO TRIM YOUR KITE !!!! 
Poo stance looks so gay.
No kiting?? You're soft!
There are places to kitesurf, you just need a thicker wetsuit or drysuit. Once the snow comes back you can kite on the frozen lakes. You'd be silly no to try it.
There should be (fairly) cheap flight to the Canary Islands with plenty of sun and wind all year round - you will get sick of the darkness in winter that far north.
All the best.
Good luck buddy!
I can totally understand where your coming from haha, in that sort of temperature you are far better off riding a bike or a skateboard, or at least doing something that keeps you warm!
I just wanna say thanks for teaching me how to kite a few years ago. And how good were those mashies from KFC!!!
Mashies!!! mmmmm mashies
No KFC in Finland 
Sorry to the world I inflicted so many noobs into the sport!
I've met some very nice people from Finland, I'm sure you'll have a ball there!
All the best and visit my beautiful Croatia for some kiting!
All the best BWD - have a few voddies and give an alibaster buxom beauty a squeeze for me!
CU big fella.
Hope its good.
Im sure those sunny coast guys will save u some wind for when u get back.
1 of the more entertaining forum junkies, your going to a awesome part of the world, wonderfull locals, i highly recommend a trip over the border to norway, a beaut small resort called Trysil, mention your teaching skills and enjoy the apray ski then the obligatory spa and roll in the snow
Happy days
Poo stance looks so gay.
Have a great year Dave .Forget the water kiting but Finland has awesome snowkiting .You might want to touch base with a couple of local guys who occesionally lurk here who have snowkited there . If i remember correctly one of them in particular had an epic time kiting an area that is a cross country mecca where there are chalets conveniently located withing around 20 km of each other .he spent a week i think just kiting the area moving around and staying at the different chlets .Tke a 10 m .Water kites work great in the snow .I have had some great sessions in our mountains on sub zero days in some really messy winds on short lines in the nukin stuff and then going 40 m lins on the light days ,Mikey should be able to give u the skinny on the snowking too.
all the best
Lach
i am intrigued as whether the green thumbs for your original post is because you are leaving or because it sounds like a cool thing to do
100 bucks says you check in at least once a week....You need us or your just plain old dave....
Bigwavedave, may I ask why are you coming to Finland - I know I wouldn't, I'm here already =) Today we had +5 and 20knots. Not too bad. Few weeks ago I got to ride 4.5m2 Cult + strapless, epic.
But yeh, winter sucks or at least when the water turns to illiquid, but in southern Finland we still should have some time before that happens. One year I ended the water season in February (air 0, water quite close to it as well, but you gotta go when you gotta go).
I know I would stick to Australia/NZ if I ever had a chance.
Hey Dave,
Have a great one mate. Sounds like a unique and exciting adventure to me. The forums will be poorer for your absence.
Cheers,
DM
yeh, we have polar bears walking around the streets with penguins and no internet 
haha.
Guess where Nokia is from? Yeh, it's a finnish company. But you are right, we are on top of lists as well when it comes to suicides with Japan and Hungary. Don't they say that one needs to try everything at least once?
Good riddance.
Nobody ever leaves SB really....come on Big Dave.............you'll have your bash as it will remind you of the great land we live in...........I do feel very sorry for you...................England WdaF............sorry I have a thing with all these dark and rainy places where people are so kn cultured.........................EFL will disappoint.....IMO...but good luck and learn heaps....you will be back.
