Last night after work a bunch of us headed to The Cove for a Kite session. Zack, Tommie, Dave, JD and a couple other showed up. The waves were small but fun about waist high. The wind was light, I was just able to get upwind on my 13m and a surf board. I really finally understand why going unhooked in the surf is soooooo much better than being hooked in. You have so much more freedom when you are unhooked and can move with the wave instead of against it. Though it is much harder to control the power of the kite. When you go to hit the lip you have no power in the kite and then going for a bottom turn the kite trys to rip you off the board. Controlling the kite is key.
I also had a scary mishap in the surf. I thought it would be fun to ride through my lines while riding a wave. Well not really but the kite lost tension and then next thing I know I’m bombing down the line threw my kite lines. I’m underwater with the lines tangled around my legs trying to get them off before/incase the kite powers up. Well the kite started to catch wind in the canopy and gave me a big tug, thankfully all my body parts were still there. So lesson learned don’t ride threw your kite lines. After that I had to do some bar juggling once I got the kite back up in the air, but it all worked out. Other than that little mishap it was a pretty fun little wave session.
