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Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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I got a DVD today all about the tricks you can do with a trick kite like my new Quantum. I'm amazed at just what these kites can do in the right hands. Here is a comprehensive list of the tricks I am now intent on mastering....
- side slide
- 360 float
- snap stall
- tip stab
- cartwheel launch
- leading edge launch
- sleeping beauty
- dead launch
- pop up
- downwind glide
- the 360
- pinwheel
- up and over
- lazy Susan
- flapjack
- yo-yo
- spin axel
- axel landing
- double axel
- coin toss
- reverse coin toss
- ground toss
- half axel
- cascade
- the 540
- lateral roll
- fade
- flic-flac
- backspin
- fruit roll-up
- full monty
- Jacob's ladder
phew! This is going to takes countless hours of selfless, dedicated kite flying... dang : )
8:11:30 PM 
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Monday, 30 August 2004
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I've had a pretty busy weekend and forgot to blog. Mark and Pamela stopped in unexpectedly on Saturday night which was nice. Sunday was a magnificent, almost summer like, day and we all went for a tour around Nelson in my van. Mark and I had a kite flying session on the beach for an hour or two; an entertaining time with lots of dogs keen on chasing. Kaycee got about a months worth of exercise tearing around the beach telling all the other dogs the the kites were her prey. She got home and went straight to bed and had to be woken up for her dinner.
Mark having a go with my new quantum. Ain't that a good looking kite? : ]
7:38:19 PM
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Friday, 27 August 2004
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I stopped in at the kite shop yesterday after work to drop of some of my kite for minor repairs. Two of my three Excaliburs had holes in them, from the time I taught Mark to kite buggy : ) and my 8.5m c-quad had a broken spar about 8 inches from the wingtip. Every time I go into that shop I seem to end up owning a new kite.
I now have a sport-kite/trick-kite/stunt-kite... whatever you want to call it, its not a power kite. It is a Quantum by Prism and it has some really cool graphics and a bag of tricks. With a lot of practice I'll be able to to really cool sounding tricks like, flic-flacs, fruit-rollups, and double axel to tip-stand. The colour scheme is yellow, red, and orange but for some reason the orange with the sun behind it comes out pink on-screen. Its not really pink, honest... would I buy a pink kite?
9:28:54 PM
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Monday, 16 August 2004
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Today I booked and paid for my ferry tickets, so it definitely on. An adventure to the far north to kite buggy my little heart out.
Last year I went to the Muriwai Moose Meet, near Auckland, where a bunch of kite buggyiers get together and camp in the sand dunes of Muriwai Beach for a weekend. This year I'm taking two weeks off work and am going to explore the whole area in my camper-van, with the Muriwai weekend in the middle of that time. Kaycee will go and stay at my parents house, where she will be spoilt to bits.
Tonight I have been surfing the net for good-looking camp grounds and advice on beaches. I plan to explore from Auckland, all the way North to Cape Reinga, the Northern most tip of the country. Already on my search I found 240 kilometres of drivable, (and therefore buggyable), beach. Ninety-mile beach is actually about 90km, Ripiro Beach is 100km long, and Muriwai is about 50km. We should be into summer by then with consistent afternoon sea breezes. Can't wait.
And the best-site-I've-found-tonight award goes to... northland.org
10:45:07 PM
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Sunday, 1 August 2004
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On the first or second Sunday of every month the Nelson Kite Club has a get-together at Rabbit Island Beach. We decide which Sunday by whatever has the best low tide. This Sunday was it this month. All winter we've been virtually windless. Today there was enough wind to get my 8.5m c-quad of the ground but not really enough to buggy with. Ted showed up and for a while we had a 12.5m c-quad flying as well.
I arrived early and while I waited for wind I sat in my buggy, looking out to sea, with the kite laid out on the beach, ready to go. As I sat there I over-heard several conversations as people walked past on there Sunday afternoon strolls. Many were discussing what I was doing, and exactly what my kite buggy and kite were. In the space of half an hour I heard my setup described by various onlookers as a sail-cart, a hang-gliding trike, a go-cart and parachute, and my favourite, a glider and bike. Say it with me... kkkkiiite bbbuuggy ; )
My 8.5m c-quad and kite buggy.
A parting shot of Rabbit Island beach this afternoon with Nelson in the background. As you can see by the water, it was pretty calm out there.
9:49:53 PM
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