It's been like what 5months since my last post?... so much stuff has happened, I don't know where to begin. Expert bloggers help me.
My last post mentioned me and Sherlyne going to Boracay. Ok in a nutshell the trip, the beach, the experience to go back home was great. Kiting wise, it sucked, big time. 6 days and 5 nights, only 1 day of kiting not even 1 day more like 4 hours maybe.
One cool highlight of that trip was to see some folks from Extreme Elements doing their stuff.
We got tons of pics which someday I will post when the moon and the stars are aligned to my liking.
Between then and now, I've been to Kuantan almost if not every weekend. The monsoon wind blew and blew so I've been able to get mucho kiting time and because of that I'm proud to say that I can kite surf already (applause applause). I can go downwind, upwind, transitions, backrolls, raleys, toeside (and handle passes.....not!) Basically I can kitesurf period.
One particular milestone which I would say helped dramatically in my learning was changing the kite I've been using. I sold my 12M switchblade '07 and got a 14M Contra '07 (2nd hand) courtesy of Ken "Malaysia's godfather of Kiteboarding" Tan. The package came with a 135 Jimmy lewis Model 3 board, now how sweet is that? Sorry I'd rather not disclose the price, you guys might start buying his stuff and I'll be out of the loop, yeah selfish me.
Eversince the gear change my skillz just improved tremendously. I also have to attribute the monsoon wind which has been pretty much excellent.
I've improved alot since the gear change so much so that I joined the Kuantan Challenge aka kiteboard racing competition. It was just me and my friends and a couple of Thai's that joined but the experience was nonetheless memorable.
It would have been totally awesome if I had won the beginners category if not for two factors. One was Martin ( a Brit now based in Kuantan) being put in the same category as me, when in fact he should have been classified in the professionals category and the second was me not competing in 2 of the 4 races. Why you may ask? well for one I was having lunch when they decided to start the race which was around 12ish and by the time the 2nd race started I was in the middle of the ocean warming up.
Anyways i'm cool with all that, the experience alone totally made up for whatever screw ups that happened.
That pretty much is the gist of all that has happened since then. I left out a lot of little details which really would just turn this post into a novel.
Oh by the way, before I end this post let me just announce that Sherlyne and I are moving to the land down under, Australia for the geographically challenged nitwit. Were moving to Adelaide on April 7th so that's a whole new post right there.
till then....hope and pray I keep this updated.
To my legion of blog fans out there thank you for being so patient and constantly checking this site for updates. Without you all I would be nothing..nothing. (lol)
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