Check this guy out!

Kiting with a Flexifoil Blade 3m III in 40 - 58mph winds!

Gets interesting around the 2.0 min mark.

YouTube - High Wind Kiting!

 

I wanna get out this weekend guys, Fozzie, my Insurance isnt sorted yet either.

Spoken with Shrimpo who says providing we have sent our stuff, we will be covered.

I dont care when or where i buggy, i just wanna go av some

 

I haven't even sent mine yet! Sorry guys.

Same here, I just wanna get out and board!

"Live to fly" baby!

 

I saw a couple of guys boarding in Stanford-le-hope on my way home from work yetserday.

Not sure what make kites they were, but one of them was huge, must have been 8 or 9m at least! It really curved round like the "C" shape kites. He was doing a few jumps and spins too!

This particular field seems to attract a few kiters, I regularly see the kites in the air from the main road. It's not that big though.

The place I went to fly yesterday is just down the road/opposite the kiting shop, "Sports corner" and I have heard the guy who runs the shop uses the same field to demo his stuff, he is apparently really good and is a qualified instructor!. Its huge and flat (albeit with a few goal posts) but there is plenty of room.

Only negative is its used for local football clubs on Sunday mornings and is close to a leisure centre/swimming pool with a skate park and playground area so it can attract quite a few kids. But this also means the grass is kept short!

I ended up with about 8 of the little ******* all round me yesterday asking about a million questions. All harmless and mostly interested in the kite, with phrases like "WOW, that's sick man!" and were all quite polite actually, which is nice to see in this day and age.

They all wandered off after a while with a friendly "see you mate", and "have a good day mister"

 

Actually I just remembered, one of the vans had an "MJB Kites" sticker in the window.

Just googled it and came back with this: MJB Kites

They do courses and training by the looks of it.

 

You should of been there that day Tiny ans I strapped an 8 yr old to my 5m

 

nice bit of recon work there fozzie !!!

hahah yes its quite refeshing to see polite little kids out on their own these days....
nice that they actually take an interest on something like this than defacing the nearest blank wall

good to see the board has had a run !!!! did you manage to board back again though??

 

No Here is a link to the full low down on FF.

Back after my first outing with my board! - Flexifoil Forums

I ended up just doing a down wind run to get a feel for the board. It felt wicked!

 

I can see my 2.5 getting alot of flight time this weekend

It's rather blowy

 

Well what's happening boys .....?

Are we going Barleylands then ?

If so what day ?

If so what Time ?


Oh & i spoke with Dazza , He's good for buggying all day on Saturday

 

Well I'm busy all day Sunday, but I haven't applied for my insurance so Barleylands is out for me anyway.

Light rain forecast for Saturday with 17mph winds.

Sunny with 22mph - 33mph winds for Sunday.

Looks like I will be taking my kites and board with me to Aylesbury Sunday!

 

I dont care, when, where or what. Im a slag and easy

 

Found you a rather nice example here mate

Flexifoil Forums

 

I noticed that Spally was on the hunt.

No one else got the ***** to try a board?

Come on Stu, I thought you were looking at a board?

 

I wanna go on yours

 

cheers Tiny, did see that but dont think the fella wants to split the stuff up.

 

If you cant find one Spally, dont go getting something else. Hold out and they will be coming up. The weeks after i got mine, loads came up for sale.

 

I noticed that Spally but then he mentions that the Sting kite is sold!

Make him an offer. See what he says.

 

You're welcome to have a go anytime mate!

 

yeah i noticed that, i think we misread him,

think there are 3 separate items which he doesnt want to split (i think)

anyway whos gonna buy that fooking great kite????????
apart from Tiny !!! hahahhahha.

 

ESCKFC?

And not a single mention of a Zinger burger?

 

dont mention zinger burgers!!! i asked for one in "mcdonalds" after the clay shoot !!!! oops

was really looking forward to it as well!!!

 

Right time to get this sorted then

After a flurry of texts it seems that tommorow is the best day for everyone , Well @ least we can do it together

Fozzy has a new location for us to try

From 10:30am Tommorow

Fozzie will post up the Location a little later , It's 5 mins from Sir Fozz HQ

 

Oh cr@p, the pressure!..........I hope the new location is ok!


I'm all nervous now!

 

I'll bring the COTD Shirt along if every pitch has football on it

 

I will have an answer for you on this one soon

 

 

Address

Quite a big free carpark. Probably best to turn left as you enter the carpark and park on that side. Then we can walk along the back of the swimming pool and on to the fields along the path you can see running down the middle of the fields.

 

That looks good to me Fozzie , See you there bout 10.30am Then mate

 

By the way, where you can see the "A1013" block in the bottom left hand corner of the aerial photo by the "Virtual Earth" logo, that's where the kite shop, "Sports Corner" is located.

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