tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63567975441104446162024-02-20T18:12:43.044-08:00Theory of the Wind RockerTheory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-13719207933910968372016-08-24T12:21:00.002-07:002016-08-24T12:21:20.578-07:00Aug 23rd 2016 - Mauritius - day 7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So I skipped a day writing, but I rationalized it with the
fact that I sorted and resized some pictures taken in Bali and posted them to
my blog. So time was in fact spent
benefiting my blog, and hence benefitting my writing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One thing to note is that I am writing the blog on one day
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That being said, today I spent several hours making King
Coconut Wine from a recipe I found on the web originating in Sri Lanka.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Above our house is a coconut tree full of ripe
coconuts. I got on top of the roof and
cut down a good 20 or more coconuts.
Then using s serrated knife a opened them (with much work) and drained
the coconut water out of them. After
collecting a fair amount…probably 2 gallons or so, I took it in the house,
strained off any particulate, and boiled it.
Then I added quite a bit of sugar, let it cool down, and then with Avy’s
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We bottled it into several water bottles, and put a balloon
with a small hole pricked in the top over the ends of the bottles. From what I read in roughly 14 days I will
have drinkable coconut wine, but like all wine, to some extent the longer it
sits the better it may taste. If it tastes bad, I have been advised by my
friend Hans in Boracay to make coconut vinegar out of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are some pictures or the process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Earlier this week the landlord told me that it is possible
to catch shrimp by hand in the tide pools across the street. He said they are
the best bait for fishing. I figured that he was talking about ghost shrimp
(sand shrimp). I just walked across the street about 20 minutes ago and caught
a shrimp with my bare hands using the light from the headlamp I was
wearing...and it wasn't sand shrimp.. it was a normal shrimp. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I then brought it back to the house and showed the
ladies. Both were surrised because it
took me literally 2 minutes to catch it.
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Then after show and tell I threw it in a frying pan, fried
it up and ate it for Avy on the spot. She seemed a bit confused as to the whole
process and as to why I ate it. I guess besides using them for fishing I am
going to have to go and collect a whole bunch of them one of these nights for a
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Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-79476914275868585902016-08-22T04:10:00.000-07:002016-08-22T04:11:38.402-07:00Aug 21st 2016 - Mauritius - day 5 (Bali pic review)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So I have been sticking to my goals. Exercise, music, and writing for three days in a row. So far so good. Yesterday I also made some art for three songs that I just recently finished, one if them with my buddy, Chuck, aka Bounty Hunter. Here are the pieces of artwork for the two Theory releases.</div>
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On that note, I have posted several new psybass tracks to Soundcloud in the last two months. Have a listen if you are interested. I also did the artwork for each of them as well.<br />
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Also yesterday, the landlord stopped by and brought us some cooking essentials and also let us know a water cooler is on order for us. That will be nice so we can start getting the big blue bottles instead of buying water by the liter at the corner store down the street.</div>
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Him and I also chatted about fishing here in front of our house. He is going to bring me a fishing pole as well as a hand-line setup. He told me how to catch sand shrimp at night along the shoreline with my headlamp, and said that when he was living here they ate fish nightly. He said when the freezer was empty he would fish for a couple hours at night and catch 10-15 kilos of fish each time. So I am looking forward to that. Hopefully I will be successful. The fish vendor down the street always has fish for sail. It varies in price. Squid was about $5 USD per pound, fish was about 1/2 that. Not too bad, but free would be better.</div>
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We also learned how to recharge our phone and wifi with data when we run out, as well as check the balance.</div>
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One other cool thing was that in the evening I noticed some movement towards the ceiling in our kitchen. Upon closer evaluation I realized it was the most vibrant gecko I had ever seen. I snapped a picture with my zoom lens. He is a welcome housemate and hopefully will keep the bug levels low in the house.</div>
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OK. Now for a look at some past experience. I didn’t blog in Bali, so I thought I would show a few selected pictures. We met some cool people, went on several cool adventures to the volcano, water falls, the monkey jungle, and overall had a really awesome time. I am only going to post a few of my favorite pictures, as our data here in Mauritius is pretty limited. There is a place with free wifi, so maybe I can get a bit more posting of pictures in while going there for a bite and some food. We will see.</div>
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Yesterday was gorgeous. What a beautiful sunny day. I took some pictures of the kiting conditions. Because of the waist deep water there are no waves or even chop to speak of. That means this places has a huge amount of flat water for kiting, as well as the world class waves such as One Eye. The wind will pull a kiter down the break, to the left, perfectly.</div>
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I took some pictures of the flat water and some people kiting and taking lessons about 1 mile off shore.<br />
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We also walked up the street and I found the ideal launching location for me. It’s less than 5 minutes away. I can launch there when the wind is lighter. When it fills in, or if I want to drift launch (of if Becky will wade offshore with me a bit…maybe 100m) I can easily launch from directly in front of our place.<br />
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We also went and had a lovely but expensive meal down the street. By expensive, the main course was about $14 USD. So, compared to the last 8 months in Asia, that is an arm and a leg for just a meal. Since we are on the "travel as long as we can budget” it looks like I will be cooking most meals.</div>
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That being said, for lunch today, we just purchased food from a beach vendor across the street. We had one roti with a couple different sauces mixed inside. We also had a curry chicken, a chicken liver dish that was spicy (only I like liver, but it was very tasty for me), and a creole seasoned octopus. We also got a cabbage and carrot braised salad and 3 samosas that Avy joined us in eating. All this for $10 USD. So, as I told the lady who runs it, Madame Rose, she will be seeing me fairly often.</div>
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Other than that we are settling in nicely. Today, after having explored this week, we will be telling the landlord that we want to chill here until we leave Nov 7th. It definitely seems we found a great place, awesome location, and by far the best value. Most other people stay in La Gaulette and need a car to get to the kiting location, whereas we can simply kite from in front of our place. I also put feelers out…so hopefully we will get a visitor or two from the Pacific Northwest kiting crew while we are here. Avy is really hoping “Uncle Jeffro” comes to visit.</div>
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Mauritius. It has begun. Today I started working on set goals for Mauritius. I have a few categories that I put into a Excel spreadsheet to actually give myself a visible goal and feedback system. It includes such things as producing music, exercise, and writing on a daily basis. For writing I put down 30 minutes daily as a goal, but have decided for the first 10 days to set that back to 15 minutes just to get the ball rolling. Hopefully this works out as planned.</div>
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Mauritius is amazingly beautiful. It’s much cooler than anywhere else we have been this year, as Asia is incredibly hot. It is winter in Mauritius, but to us still feels like summer in the PNW. The ocean is literally across the street. You can see the panorama pics of the first afternoon and sunset we experienced. </div>
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We live right next to the Brabant heritage site. It is the mountain on the right of the pictures. During the slaving times, escaped slaves had a hiding community up on the plateau of the top of the mountain. There is also a cave system that they lived in. It was only accessible by a V shaped canyon, so it was also easily defended. There is a 4km hike that goes up to the top ( I think) so one of these days I will have to try for the summit.<br />
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While the kiting is epic, the shopping is dismal. There are about 5 kite shops with the standard gear and apparel, but that’s about it. One big grocery store and a handful of restaurants at best in La Gaulette. Outside of that, in Le Morne Village we have a few tiny restaurants and corner stores. So yeah, get your shopping done in Asia. Get your kiting in Mauritius.</div>
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It gorgeous outside. Sun is shining, but its a cool 75+ degrees. It feels great to us.<br />
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Avy is happy. We have a large flat screen TV that she and her babies settled down to watch movies from our flash drives on. Also, across the street is a kids playground between the road and the ocean. It's a great setup for me to watch Avy play and Becky kite at the same time.<br />
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As I sit at this moment on a plane flight from Bangkok,
Thailand to Chennai, India I am pondering the fact that in the last year I haven’t
touched my blog since leaving Colombia. I have come to a realization; blogging
is damn difficult, as getting the time to write utterly collides with my other passions, a lifestyle
chalk full of adventure, and the necessary moments of leisure (in other words, my need to waste time and blow off some steam). Throw in a family life with a loving wife and a 3 year old… can I say
it again, “Damn, finding time to write is problematic for me.”<br />
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I need to find a system.
A way in which I can balance writing time by being efficient and doing
it often enough to matter and to provide some reason for anyone out there to follow
my endeavors. I feel like my life is interesting enough, that I am learning
things I want to share with others…just how to get them into a form of prose
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Here’s my problem laid out bare. Take a read. If you have any suggestions for me, be sure to leave them in the comments below this blog entry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Adventure: That single word sums up my
life. I am traveling with wife and three
year old daughter in tow. In the last
year we have spent 90 days in Colombia, almost 7 months in the Dominican
Republic, visited Mexico, Belize, Roatan, and the Grand Caymans, followed by 4
months in the Philippines, one month bouncing around Thailand….and now, we are
on a plane headed for India, in which yes, we will be jumping around to several
locations before posting up in Ramashwaram, India for a few weeks. (By the time I post this we will have also visited Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and will be living for 2 months in Bali). So yeah, time is spent seeing new sights,
eating new foods, meeting new people, and often times I am out late partying it
up with our travel companion “uncle” John Ruffing. Add to that just figuring out logistics like
where to stay, how to get from A to B, and time disappears quickly on the road.
Finding time to write amidst the travel is somewhat difficult….I always think “I
will blog when things slow down”. And
sometimes they do…but then, passions compete for my time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Passions: While I have several passions…my passions of
kiteboarding and producing (aka making) music come first among the many. Kiteboarding and producing music is something
I do for me. It’s not something I need
to share with the world…outside of my friends taking a listen to my latest
auditory creation...although I admit getting attention from outsiders is
certainly gratifying. Both kiteboarding
and producing music take a considerable amount of my time. When the wind is good…it calls to me. I can’t pass it up without a huge dose of
FOMO (fear of missing out). And after a good session I am spent physically,
ready for relaxing with a beer in hand and chatting about the session with my
mates. Music, well, if you produce music
you know any song can take 20-80 hours of time to finish in a professional manner.
Secondary passions are DJing and photography. DJing is also something I still love
to do…although with DJing there is the problem of finding places to do it for a
live audience. DJing…well, it just isn’t as much fun if no one is there to hear
it. Photography takes time to get the shots,
sometimes planning for them, and then afterwards processing the pictures using
Adobe Lightroom to make them appear as close to what my human eye saw in person as possible, a process which can be extremely time consuming. Throw in a third desire to start making
some videos with all the GoPro footage I have taken…and well, when to find the
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Leisure: Leisure moments are those moments that I most feel
I am wasting my chance to write. But
leisure is just that…a time for the mind to unwind. These moments for me include reading (20+ novels per year) for fun
and for knowledge, trying to keep up in a TV series like Vikings, Game of
Thrones, or the Walking Dead, and simply watching a movie (on my computer typically). It’s necessary I feel…but then again, it’s
not. I love to read, I am addicted to the two shows I listed (although I
have been good at refraining from adding any other to the list), and I still
like to keep current on movies…especially superhero stuff, Star Wars, sci-fi
flix and all that stuff. Who can blame
me? Yet, I think I just need to work on
balancing this realm a bit more. Maybe a
good method would be to reward myself with a show, only after I spend 30
minutes writing. Can I be this disciplined?
I would like to think so…but it is me we are talking about. Well, one step at a
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Somehow I feel like the above three fundamental tangents of
my life are somewhat balanced, (although I really wish I was producing more
music!) in some ways with each other, and yet they all collide with my desire
to write about my experiences. Dare I
also say that I wish I had a better reason to write? I don’t want to write to simply brag about
the cool things I am doing, seeing or experiencing. That can’t be it or there is simply no reason
for me to continue. I want to inspire
others to travel, break outside of the mold of their current life, and get out
there on the road and truly find themselves while making everyday the life of their dreams. This last 16 months on the road
have been the most amazing, gratifying, and lovely months of my life. And my daughter is growing up right now, in
this moment, through it all. That all
being said, getting paid to write would be a nice little kick in the butt,
making me beholden to someone else, "knocking my writing butt into gear"…and so
yeah, maybe getting paid to write would really help. But how could I go about getting paid to
write if I am not already writing content worth reading?<o:p></o:p></div>
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So yeah, I need a system, a reason to write, a direction…I honestly
don’t know. The hard part seems to be
taking the time to write, and then knowing what to write about. Once I have both I feel as if I have a decent
way with words and expressing myself. So
maybe that is it…sit, write whatever is on my mind rather than try to follow
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So besides the above hurdles…what else do I need to overcome
in order to create a system for writing more?
Well, first of all, Internet in many of the places we have lived just plain sucks.
Forget having your USA high speed internet.
Half the time Skype can barely handle an audio call. So my previous method of sitting on blogspot
waiting for it to constantly save my prose, as well as waiting for pictures I
want to share to upload (which can take forever) is a huge problem. Let’s not
even talk about trying to upload a video to youtube or vimeo at this point. Right now I am just typing in Word. This seems like the first thing I need to
change. Use Word or OneNote or something
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I am thinking when writing about an experience I should
preview pictures on the computer and just slap them into my Word doc and keep
writing…or maybe I write about whatever is in my head and then check out my recent
photos and see which of them fit the given prose. Hrmmm, I guess I may need some more time to
think about this. Or maybe I try out
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I guess what I am saying, and it seems funny it took me this
long to think of it, is that I need to go back to “High School” by writing a
rough draft on my computer. Then I can
load the prose onto blogspot quickly. From there I can load pics and them place
them into the blog in the appropriate places as a second step to the blogging
method. Sounds good to me right now, so
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Another question I have is whether I should go back and
cover experiences from the past, like things that happened last summer in
Caberete, Dominican Republic….or simply move on and cover the current
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So, that’s about it at the moment. Can I write more and bring more content to
this blog on a regular basis. I am sure wanting to.<br />
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For now I want to leave you with a little bit
of everything from my passions created in the last 16 months:<br />
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<li>a few videos of Avy showing off on the flying trapeze and in the swimming pool in Caberete, </li>
<li>a time-lapse sunset compilation I made with my music as a score, </li>
<li>some electronic music I produced on the road, </li>
<li>and a Dj mix I did in the Philippines. </li>
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<i>Avy with a friend, Caberete 2015, Photo credit: Will Hise</i></div>
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Avy on the trapeze, Caberete June 2015....</div>
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Avy showing off her lung capacity in the swimming pool, Caberete July 2015<br />
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Here is a compilation video a created of some of the sunsets we have been privledged to see on almost a nightly basis for the last 16+ months.<br />
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Here are some of the tracks I have produced and a DJ mix. Also, I might add that the artwork for everything below is also of my own creation. I hope you enjoy listening.<br />
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Here is one of my latest psybass tracks created in March of 2016 while living in Boracay, Philippines:<br />
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My latest collaboration, SETI finished in May 2016, with a great friend of mine Chuck Larson aka Bounty Hunter...It is a Breakbeat. We co-produced this by sending the track back and forth over the internet. Isn't technology cool!<br />
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Here is the YUR E.P. I produced it during October 2015 while in Caberete and during time there wasn't much wind. I then mixed into a 28 minute continuous mix. It is comprised of 5 original breakbeat songs.<br />
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Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-73194735215661932202015-05-27T06:42:00.002-07:002015-05-27T06:42:38.034-07:00Our first Carnival in Barranquilla, Colombia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After only a few days in Cartagena the three of us and our roommate John packed a bag with a few items to stay overnight and headed on a buss to Barranquilla to experience one of the largest and most colorful Carnival celebrations in the world. Once there, we did experience a few mishaps since we did not have a room reserved for 4 and John's initial reservation turned us away, but we did find a really nice, and yet inexpensive, hotel to stay which ended up being right in the middle of the action.</div>
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The first night was filled with dancing in the street until the wee morning hours. John and I spent the night roaming and dancing....and probably drank 20+ beers each. We realized at some point that we totally scored with our hotel because it was right by the street party...literally 50 ft away, so John and I could walk inside and use the bathrooms whenever we wanted. The rest of the street partyiers would pay to use a 5 gallon bucket inside of a refrigerator box.</div>
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The next morning we woke to music...Latin music being played by a band right in our hotel lobby at around 8:30am....and loudly. Pretty cool, but also a bit obnoxious if you stayed out until 4am.</div>
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Soon we took a couple mile walk through the city until we found the location of the parade. There we posted up and watched the main Carnival parade of 2015. Before checking out the pictures below, take a quick read to learn more about the history of Barranquilla's Carnival that I pulled from Wikipedia:</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Barranquilla's Carnival</b> (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: Carnaval de Barranquilla</i>) is Colombia's most important <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Folklore">folklore</a>celebration, and one of the biggest carnival in the world. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Carnival">carnival</a> has traditions that date back to the 19th century. Forty days before Holy Week, Barranquilla decks itself out to receive national and foreign tourists, and join together with the city's inhabitants to enjoy four days of intense festivities. During the carnival <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barranquilla" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Barranquilla">Barranquilla</a>'s normal activities are paralyzed because the city gets busy with street dances, musical and masquerade parades. Barranquilla's Carnival includes dances like the Spanish paloteo, African <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_music" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Congo music">congo</a> and indigenous mico y micas. Many styles of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Colombia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Music of Colombia">Colombian music</a> are also performed, most prominently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cumbia">cumbia</a>, and instruments include drums and wind ensembles. The Carnival of Barranquilla was proclaimed Cultural Masterpiece of the Nation by Colombia's National Congress in 2002.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barranquilla%27s_Carnival#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> Also the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>, in Paris on November 7, 2003, declared it as one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpieces_of_the_Oral_and_Intangible_Heritage_of_Humanity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity">Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity</a>, and it was during Olga Lucia Rodriquez Carnival Queen year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Carnival starts on the Saturday before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ash Wednesday">Ash Wednesday</a> with the Battle of the Flowers (La Batalla de Flores), which is considered one of the main activities. Then, The Great Parade (La Gran Parada) on Sunday and Monday is marked by an Orchestra Festival with Caribbean and Latin bands. Tuesday signals the end of the carnival, announced by the burial of Joselito Carnaval, who is mourned by everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Barranquilla's Carnival slogan is: Who lives it, is who enjoys it (Quien lo vive, es quien lo goza).</span></div>
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One fun tradition is that they sell boxes of cornmeal and cans of foam...both to attack other spectators with. Here you can see this guy and gal have both been hit with a handful of corn meal.<br />
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The cans of foam will spray 10-15ft. Of course Avy wanted one. The best part is that no matter who you spray, no one gets upset. It was easily well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit so the foam would actually cool you down for a few minutes.<br />
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After the parade was over we debated staying another night, but decided to head home simply to save money, as we knew it would really be just another repeat night of partying in the streets.<br />
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That being said, if you ever get the chance to experience Carnival in Colombia...take that chance! It was wonderful. Don't be worried about safety, the police there do not mess around and they are there to ensure that foreigners are not be hassled or harmed. However, do be aware that petty crime, such as pick pocketing is common, so be smart. At night, if someone sprays you in the face with foam, hang on to your bag! Chances are they may be working with a friend that will unzip your bag and reach inside while you wipe the foam off your face....so please, leave most of your money and passport in your hotel room. All hotels have guards at the front, so no one but hotel guests are getting in.<br />
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Other than that, enjoy the great time, dancing, music, street food...and everything else Carnival has to offer!</div>
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The city of Cartagena is quite large, but in actuality it is composed of a few different neighborhoods.</div>
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There is the outskirts of the city where typically only locals live. This is where you would find many neighborhoods that wouldn't be suited for a visitor to walk around at night.</div>
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In the middle of the city and located beach side is the old city, El Centro, which is walled in, a remnant of Spanish occupation. It is beautiful and fully safe any time of the day. I will post more about this not-to-miss location in a later post.</div>
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Then there is La Boquilla, which is an up and coming location and home to most of the kite schools in Cartagena. Typically the water is choppy, and I found the wind to be lighter and somewhat holey at times. On the bright side, the beach is gigantic with a long take out for beginning kiteboarders.</div>
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The last location is Boca Grande and it tends to be a place devoted to tourists and the wealthier elite of the city. It is extremely safe, even in the middle of the night, so walking around is not an issue. Of course, most things cost a bit more here, but there are local spots that are hidden gems and will be less expensive than the average of the area. We especially loved eating at Riquisimo. Get their filet mignon for roughly $10 usd.</div>
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Boca Grande has a lake in one portion of it known as El Laguito, and an entire end of Boca Grande is referred to as Laguito because of it. This is where we stayed, and it is central to what I believe is the best kiteboarding location in Cartagena. We stayed for two months in Edificio Laura, which was $1200 usd for a 2 bed room apartment, so with a roommate rent was $600 per room. This is where all the beautiful pictures of sunsets, as well as the following pictures of the kite spots were taken from. Right from the balcony of our apartment. </div>
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Laguito has two basic spots for kiteboarding. A flat water spot and a wave spot. Also, you can choose to ride way, way out into the ocean if you prefer.</div>
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The first spot is the flat water location, due to a long rock pier that runs into the ocean and blocks the waves. It's fairly shallow as well making it great for wakestyle practice and progression. Its downside is that there is no take out downwind...the next stop is Tierra Bomba, an island about 5 miles away. No worries though, if in trouble a jetski or fishing boat will rescue the kiter and gear for aproximately $10 usd.</div>
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Here are some pictures that Becky took of me riding. She was standing on our balcony at the time. I am a little downwind of the flat water spot so that her and my little girl Avy could easily watch me.</div>
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And here is a picture of my little princess watching daddy kite from our balcony. The rock peer is directly behind the middle of the white building, so you can't see it or the best of the flat water.<br />
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To the other side of the rock pier that creates the flat water, the waves come in unobstructed, so on a daily basis there is a decent swell perfect for beginning wave riders. Many of the locals are really quite good on a surf board, and all of them are friendly and easy going. Don't be scared to join them, whether you are a strapless pro or a beginner..<br />
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The other great part of kiting El Laguito is that there is typically no more than 10-15 riders on the water at any given time. That being said, the flat water spot is fairly small and can feel crowded with 10 or more guys trying to take advantage of it. Throw in a few beginners mowing the lawn, and getting a decent setup for a trick can be frustrating.<br />
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One thing to note is that most of the locals either have school, work, or simply don't like to get any darker, so if visiting, try to kite around 12pm or 1pm when the sun is high and hot. If you do, you will get a good 2 to 4 hours of kiting solo, as most of them wait until a little later in the afternoon and then ride until sunset.<br />
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January through April are the best months to kite and get wind in Cartagena. It blows pretty much every day. We arrived on Feb 9th, and it was 7m-10m every day for 87 days straight.<br />
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Here is a video of Armando Sierra (one of Colombia's top kiters) ripping in El Laguito. Th video is quite old, but you can see the conditions of flat water that are available.<br />
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Oh, and I can't leave you without a classic sunset picture taken from our balcony on the 4th night we were there.<br />
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Certainly for anyone that has ever followed my blog, you may very well have asked yourself the title of this blog: "What happened to Colombia?". Or maybe, "What happened to Ryan?"<br />
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Well, on February 8th the three of us left for Cartagena, Colombia. We spent three months there, and while I would like to blame my blogging inactivity on spotty internet, the blame lies with me.<br />
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Sure, for the first few weeks it was simply nice to unplug and kite as much as possible, but that is still no excuse for not following through with blog updates. The fact is, living in Colombia was amazing and every day I was piling up new experiences like a hoarder piling up new possessions in his house, but like a hoarder, the more experiences I had the greater the "clean up job" was going to be...or in the case of this blog, the more things I had to write about the greater the anxiety about writing it all down grew. And then the longer I went without writing, the more it seemed like a daunting task to catch back up.<br />
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Instead, I took the easy but less fulfilling route of posting a pic or two to Facebook periodically.<br />
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Last night I decided to do something about it. So, much like cleaning up a really messy room, rather than be daunted by the whole room at once, I am simply going to pick a corner or a task and work my way free of it....<br />
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So.....Cartagena.....gorgeous city, wonderful people, amazing wind....truly a magical place.<br />
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For those that are kiteboarders or those that want to visit Colombia, we arrived February 9th. Jet Blue flies direct, so if coming from the States, this is probably the most convenient and inexpensive way to get there.<br />
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And the wind, well...it definitely did not disappoint. In fact, it blew for 87 straight days after my arrival. 10m most days, but a good handful of 7m days. More about that later.<br />
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When we arrived, my buddy John, who would be our roommate for a little over one month, had located a apartment in El Laguito. While the downside was that we had a decent sized hike to our kite spot every day, I will never forget the view we had.<br />
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The first night there we missed the sunset because we were out eating dinner at the time. However, here are some pictures from the second night we were there. We got to experience sunsets like this for three months straight. Pretty Epic. Almost on a nightly basis the four of us would gather on our deck, bathed in golden light, and watch the sun until it had dropped below the horizon.<br />
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I was very excited this week when John Ruffing, my friend who we will meet up with and rent a apartment for a month with in Cartagena, posted to Facebook after 2 days in Cartagena, Colombia.<br />
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Now tell me that isn't exciting. Becky and I couldn't have asked for a better report on the conditions and lifestyle in Cartagena.<br />
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Now all we have to do is finish packing, moving out, cleaning and repairing the house, etc.....but once we get there....I can tell already, it's going to be GREAT!</div>
Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-37491666372941547582015-01-09T12:00:00.000-08:002015-01-09T12:00:02.325-08:00The Final Countdown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, its the final countdown. <br />
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After 15 years at Amazon.com, today is Becky's last day there.<br />
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I have only 5 days of work left at Symetrix. Its been 10 years since I started there and really was my first career.<br />
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But now its time for adventure. Taking Avy to see the world, meet new people, swim, kite, and just generally gain and even better appreciation for life than we already have.<br />
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On February 8th at 9pm the three of us board a plane in Seattle and will land in Cartagena, Colombia at 1:30pm the next day. So, we have 1 month to finish packing, move out, touch up paint and clean the house, and hopefully get some tenets renting before we leave.<br />
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OK. So getting tenets before we leave might be pushing it. But hopefully it will happen pretty easily since there is a housing shortage in Seattle.<br />
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That being said, once I am checked into the plane and drinking a beer before my flight I think that then, and only then, will I be able to take a deep breath and say "We made it!". Then its off for adventure in Colombia. <br />
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It's going to be great. I have been working on a concept for a business (Come Kite With US) centered around Americans and Europeans coming to meet us in various developing countries, staying at a nice property with us, and generally hosting them and their wind and non-wind activities. We will see if I can make the model work.<br />
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To get started, we are hosting kiters for the last week of February and the first week or two of March. So far we have 2 girls and one guy signed up and coming to meet us. More are welcome and if you want details about how to come kite with us / stay with us in Cartagena, don't hesitate to email me for details. theorytheproducer@gmail.com<br />
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Around the first week of May, after three months in Colombia, we return to beautiful Caberete in the Dominican Republic. We love it there. Both the local and expat friends of ours, the weather, the culture...we just can't wait. And on top of that, I am feeling pretty good because it is looking like I may have secured a instructor job. I am not going to say anything yet and jinx it, but I will update this blog with info when I lock things down.<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the title suggests, sometimes in life, everything aligns itself in such a way that it seems almost as if fate itself is dictating the universe around you, almost like the conductor of the unseen orchestra of life is guiding your path. And while I don't believe in fate, it is a good feeling all the same, and certainly helps by reassuring me that Becky and I have made the right decisions with a feeling of "being on the right path at the right time".</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click this link to check them out. <a href="http://store.thekiteboarder.com/category-s/41.htm">http://store.thekiteboarder.com/category-s/41.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On October 13th I received an email from Marina Chang, a publisher from TKB (The Kiteboarder Magazine) to inform that "your name was randomly chosen as the Tkb/Virgin Armada promotional winner of a :Virgin Armada/Nobile NHP kiteboard ( board give away promo for all Tkb orders in October)"</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Virgin Kitesurfing Armada is a event held in the UK and sponsored by Sir Richard Branson that includes among other things, a world record attempt for largest down-winder ever with over 500 GPS tracked riders. Check out this link for more info: <a href="http://kitesurfingarmada.org.uk/">http://kitesurfingarmada.org.uk/</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, Nobile a kiteboarding brand, most famous for its slip travel boards, helped to create 10 custom, limited edition, Virgin Kitesurfing Armada Nobile NHP boards. A few of them were prizes, a few were up for auction and charity, and at least one of them went to The Kiteboarder Magazine as a prize for their customers...and yeah, that ended up being me with a $8 purchase from their website.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may imagine, winning this board right before we plan to leave on a life changing adventure to chase the wind felt like a sign that we are on the right track. I never win anything...certainly not a kiteboard worth $800 (what the Nobile NHP sells for new).</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I currently have a twin tip with boots and a surf board, so I really didn't have a good option for teaching an impromptu kiteboarding lesson. This board is a perfect addition to my quiver for just that reason, and because have a twin tip with straps is simply a nice option to have around. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days after that I was contact by a buddy of mine, John Ruffing, who two years ago quit his job and has been travelling ever since. He spent 6 months in 2014 running Srilankite in Srilanka, after having visited quite a few other places, teaching lessons along the way. He told me that he has much of the same plans as Becky and I, would be interested in traveling together, and potentially if things work out, partner up and build a business together. John is a really fun and intelligent guy, and also a IKO intructor, so after chatting with Becky, we both thought this sounds like a great way to start our journey and see where things take us,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can say that just the mention of Colombia stirs up memories of the 1980's and the drug cartels, violence, and kidnappings. Because of that I was a little unsure about the decision to go there when John first approached me with the idea, but the more research I did, the more Colombia looked like a great place to check out. While it is not a completely crime free country (certainly nowhere is) the crime levels are way down, especially in the last 4 years...and for the most part the Caribbean side of the country is quite safe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is often the case anyways where kiteboarding is concerned. Often times kiteboarding is prime in what are traditionally fishing villages, so once a good kiteboarding tourism industry is built up, the locals really value the people that come visit to kite and whom bring valued commerce into their local economy. Plus, kiteboarders tend to be very conscientious guests to both the locals and the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, literally the day after talking to John, I got an email from Native Instruments. As you may know, I also produce music as a hobby and Native Instruments is a brand in which I had signed up for their online newsletter. What was their email about? It was promoting a new video of theirs that was covering the music scene in Colombia called Sobrosso. And it covers the Caribbean coast of Colombia....check it out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so, little by little, as we settle into the idea that the first stop on our travels will be Colombia (for 60-90 days) life keeps throwing little reassurances that we are on the right path and that Colombia is the place for us to be.</span></div>
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So, if you have kept up with my blog, in the last post I mentioned that I have upgraded both of my boards...twin tip and surf board, from the new 2015 Naish lineup.</div>
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The two boards are the 2015 Naish Dub 138x43 and 2015 Naish Skater 5'2. <i>Picture below:</i></div>
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It is fall in Washington state, almost winter in fact, and the water is definitely cold at this point! But before the cold front got here to fully let anyone getting into the water, wetsuit or not, know that winter has arrived...I got a chance to get both my boards out twice. As such, I thought I would review them, for anyone looking for an unbiased review of the two boards. I am not sponsored or anything like that....</div>
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It may come in handy for those reading this review to know that I have put on my winter weight (already) and am sitting right at 200 lbs at a mere 5 ft 11 inches.</div>
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First, impression when I received the Dub is that the board is beautifully designed and crafted. Every details has been taken care of. The look of the graphics is dialed and I love that Naish sticks to its Hawaiian roots with the design. The blue green gray top and gray orange bottom really works to make this board stylin'.</div>
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It's got a wicked shape with multiple concaves, grooves, and channels on the bottom, so this board rides great with or without fins.</div>
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Naish slates this board as a Freeride board, with wakestyle influences to be riden with straps. Bah....you can see I threw my Ronix Parks on the board...which by the way looks sick! The Ronix Park's are detailed with orange and since the Dub has a gray orange design on the bottom this combo is seriously one of the best looking on any beach!</div>
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The first... POP! This board seriously has more pop than any other board I have ever ridden. My last board was a Liquid Force Influence 142....which isn't even in the same ballpark as the Dub when it comes to popping off the water when jumping. The board simply digs in, then lifts off the water with barely even a thought of technique...its simply works and is a jumping machine.</div>
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The second is related to the first....the board lands as smoothly as any board I have ever ridden. When I took this board out I was on my 10m and was lit...so jumps were huge. I had a couple real hot landings and the board straight up absorbed them so well, that I really didn't feel like I had to use my knees to absorb the hot landings at all. Once again the Dub just seemed to do all the work for me.</div>
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And the third thing that really stuck out to me is the upwind ability of this board. Its fantastic for a board that has the second most rocker in the Naish lineup...sitting only behind the Antic wakestyle board. To be honest, its upwind ability didn't completely surprise me since the bottom has so many features designed to give it grip. It did make me happy, because I have little doubt that it will perform in light wind too.</div>
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A few other notable thoughts on the board....it has a great combination of stiffness and flex in just the right places, which probably lends itself to its fantastic pop. But it also makes it a comfortable ride that turns on a dime.</div>
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The shape and rails are designed so the board never once sprayed water up into my face while riding, and was also probably responsible for its turning capabilities.</div>
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Overall, maybe I am still in the honeymoon stage, but the fact is that right now this board goes down as the best, most fun, and highest performance twin tip I have ever owned, let alone ridden.</div>
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If you are thinking about picking this board up, I highly recommend it! Call you local shop or Naish rep to get your hands on this bad boy today....</div>
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Let me start by saying, I am by no means a great strapless surf board rider....I still feel like I am a intermediate strapless rider...if not beginner. So, this review can't address some of the things a more accomplished rider would mention or notice.</div>
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That being said, first impressions is that this board is gorgeous. I mean every detail is carefully constructed and paid extreme attention too. The foot pads, the honey combing material that you can see through the board, the graphics which have attention to every possible detail...even a small print of the Hawaiian islands on the bottom. Literally this is the best looking surf board I have ever seen...period!</div>
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The other thing that one would notice right away is the shape of this board. It's almost like a cross between a twin tip and a surf board....or better yet, its a surfboard with the nose and tail cut off so that it can travel in a large golf deceiver bag with your twin tip...rather than needing a surfboard bag and incurring the large overage baggage fees at the airline check-in counter. The fact the tip is square, doesn't actually take away from how the board rides...so it actually feels like a larger board than its 5'2 length. </div>
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Another thing, there are actual concave channels on the bottom of this board. It looks like it will grab the water in much the same way a fin-less wakestyle board would. Pretty impressive to look at, and almost certainly attributes to the feel of this board on the water. </div>
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And I promise that you can't pick up this board without noticing immediately its super light construction....its obvious strapless airs and grabbing this board one handed when soaring through the air, will be as easy as it gets (which if you know about strapless airs...is still pretty hard to do). The Skater promo video with Kevin Langeree shows that feature off well.</div>
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The Skater on the other hand is a true surf board construction, so it has a slightly, and I mean very slight, rounded top deck that makes turning super smooth and responsive. The pads have great coverage so I don't feel like I need to add more pad at the top of the board, nor wax it.....which sometimes is the case with a new surfboards used for kiting. Having a foot slip off the front after a strapless air can hurt, if not injure the rider.</div>
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Overall, as I mentioned, I am not a super accomplished strapless rider...but that being said, this board makes me yearn to get on the water and ride some waves (not too big yet). Whereas my old DV8 surfboard was strictly my go to board when the wind was too light for riding my wakestyle board. With the Skater I simply can't wait to ride this board because it is just that bad ass!</div>
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When looking at the above picture, I am pretty awestruck by the size of balls Ben Wilson has. I imagine that even him, as he rides out beyond the break and gets ready to ride in and then drop in on a monster like this, is full of nerves, an almost sickening anticipation of the unknown variables a wave of this magnitude can throw at a rider, and he might even have a little doubt creeping in telling him that what he is about to do is nuts...and yet, I bet if you ask him, the moment he drops in on a wave like this all his nerves, anticipation, fear, anxiety, doubt....everything...goes completely still in the moment. And in that moment he feels more alive than he ever has. </div>
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At the moment I feel like I am just about to drop into the biggest wave of my life! Hopefully I have prepared enough for this endeavor, such that I am ready, willing, and able for tackling this next adventure of life head on......that I won't crash or wipe out..... but instead I will have "the ride of my life"!</div>
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In April of 2014 I gave my notice to my employer that Friday, Jan 16, 2015 would be my last day at work. Around a month later my wife, Becky, gave her employer Amazon.com notice that her last day would be Jan 9th 2014.<br />
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That's right, in what is now only 3 months away, the two of us will be voluntarily ending our current careers in the tech world, we will rent our house out, and start chasing the wind with our 2 year old daughter Avy in tow. That's the big news on the adventure front!</div>
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So, if you have been following me since this blog started or if you have ever read old entries, then you know that this has been a dream of ours for some time. My first and second blog entries in fact detail our plans....although that was roughly 4 1/2 years ago, much of it is applicable and I feel like we have reached the first step of our goal. </div>
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First post: <a href="http://windrocker.blogspot.com/2010/01/start-of-adventure.html">http://windrocker.blogspot.com/2010/01/start-of-adventure.html</a></div>
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Second post: <a href="http://windrocker.blogspot.com/2010/01/10-year-plan.html">http://windrocker.blogspot.com/2010/01/10-year-plan.html</a></div>
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One thing I might note out, that the second blog post gives our 10 year plan, then a list of steps. Well, we are almost exactly 5 years into the plan...so hopefully 5 years from now we will have a successful business somewhere with perfect wind and weather.</div>
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This is why I say I can feel some affinity to Ben Wilson right before he dropped in on this big wave, because as January approaches I have the all the feelings one might experience before dropping in on a monster wave; nervousness, anticipation, fear, anxiety, doubt....and while I may not be fearing for my life, there is still quite a lot of risk involved with a lifestyle change of this magnitude.</div>
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That being said, just like dropping in on a giant wave takes a ton of preparation, practice, planning, and calculated risk, so does making a lifestyle change of this magnitude. I believe that Becky and I have done the same things...prepared, practiced, planned, and worked towards minimizing the risks that throwing comfort to the wind and pursuing our dreams will involve. (pun intended) </div>
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So, before I detail any specific itinerary, I think I will overview with you the plans, preparation, practice, and risk minimizing steps we have taken to make this new adventure and lifestyle a reality.</div>
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1) Become self-sufficient kiteboarders: </div>
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While this might seem liker a no brainer, of course, the first step was for Becky and I to both become self-sufficient kiteboarders. That has been done and both Becky and I could certainly be considered self-sufficient kiteboarders at this time.</div>
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Well, in my first or second blog post, which was extremely early in our kiting careers, I put out there that both Becky and I would become instructors. That being said, Becky spent roughly two summer seasons busy....either pregnant or nursing an infant. So, becoming a kiteboard instructor didn't happen for her. However, I became an <a href="http://ikointl.com/" target="_blank">IKO certified kiteboard instructor </a>in May 2010. I worked for 5 summers with <a href="http://www.urbansurf.com/kiteschool/store/home.html" target="_blank">Urban Surf Kiteboarding</a> teaching lessons on Jetty Island in Everett, Washington. Last month, Sept 2014 I officially became a Level 2 IKO certified kiteboard instructor and now am qualified to be a Head Instructor for an IKO center.</div>
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This means that once we are traveling, I should be able to work as an instructor at the various locations we decide to call home temporarily. Hopefully if all goes well, I will be able to support us by paying for food and board while we are there. This will keep us from dipping into our savings to support day to day living expenses.</div>
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3) Conceive a child before leaving :</div>
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Conceiving a child before leaving might seem like a weird goal. But roughly 4 years ago or so as we really started getting serious about making this life change, one thing that came up (Becky brought it up) was that when we got married I promised her I was okay with having at least one child. So, then the questions became "Do we leave early and have a baby in another country or do we stay for another year or two, have a baby in the US under our current health insurance plans?" Obviously we choose the second option. Having Avy has been one of the most awesome experiences ever. And now that she is 2 years old, she is at the perfect age for us to make this change in our life and take her with us. She is just finishing up her potty training, can eat pretty much anything (even likes spicy food sometimes), she can tell us if she feels sick or something hurts, etc, etc Anyways, we are primed and ready, and I think Avy is going to have a blast and really grow from this experience as much as both Becky and I will.</div>
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4) Save a nest egg and pay down debt:</div>
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By next month I will have my 2009 Mazdaspeed3 paid off and I will be left with only my college school loans, home mortgage, and a little credit card debt. Before leaving Becky and I will have paid off the credit card...so really I will only be left with my college loans to worry about, as the mortgage should be taken care of by renting our house.</div>
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As far as saving a nest egg goes, Becky has been saving her Amazon stock allotments and options for roughly 5 or more years....basically since 2008 actually. While this is the primary outlet for us saving a nest egg, we feel pretty confident that we have enough to travel on and to invest in a business once we find the right place to post up.</div>
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Now I know giving our employers such a long notice of our leave seems somewhat crazy, but hey, we had big shoes that needed filling and we both wanted to leave our departments and coworkers in a good position when we leave, rather than give them short notice and leave them short handed. As such, both of us have hired and trained our replacements and at this point we are working to hand off all of our responsibilities to our replacements or to others within the company. With such a long time for preparation, we both feel real good about leaving and about the fact that we will be held in good standing and of high opinion by our employers. We have effectively ensured that we are not burning any bridges as we jettison from our current lifestyle and career.</div>
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Before we leave we certainly had the goal of making sure we have current gear with lots of life left. For myself, I also had the goal to be able to produce music and DJ while we are on the road. As such, I have upgraded not only my kiting gear but also my music setup.</div>
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For kiting Becky upgraded to a 2013 11m Naish Ride and a 2012 Naish Moneyshot 132cm.</div>
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I upgraded my wetsuits to a full suit 5/4/3, a 3/4 length suit, and a shorty.<br />
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And this week I got my new boards in, just in time for our trip. A 2015 Naish Dub 138 and a 2015 Naish Skater 5'2. Let me tell you, I am stoked as hell to ride these boards!!!</div>
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As far as DJ and music production equipment goes, I have made my music production system fully portable with a new laptop, a Mac Book Pro, and an Ableton Push controller with Ableton software. For DJing, I haven't yet, but will be upgrading to a new Dj Controller sometime in the next month or so.</div>
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And that's about it. Certainly there are a myriad of other things we have had to handle, but this list was the most pressing and important in at least one sense.</div>
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Just like Ben Wilson, who with all of his training, practice, and preparation essentially gained the confidence that he could successfully ride the wave before he ever dropped in on that beast, Becky and I are also confident that we have accomplished the things we needed to accomplish prior to taking the leap and deciding to ride the wave of fate to a new lifestyle, reality, and home waiting for us on some sunny, windy beach....<br />
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I am hoping that come Feb 1st or so as we fly out into the unknown, that just like Ben Wilson on the face of this monster wave, all anxiety, nervousness, doubt, etc, will disappear as we live in the moment, enjoy life and quality time with each other, along with the wind, water, and sun that is awaiting us on a distant shoreline. In those moments, I am sure we will be having the "ride" of our lives. <br />
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What do you think? Do you have aspirations to ride a monster wave, be that a real one or a metaphorical one? If so, I say GO FOR IT!!!!<br />
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I still have a few updates to add to this blog, like a recap of our trip to Cape Hatteras in April of 2014, so stay tuned.</div>
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Also, itinerary will be forthcoming in the next month or so.......</div>
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Well, it has taken me long enough to get back to my blog and finish out the recap of the summer of 2013. So, without wasting anymore time, here we go. <i>I promise I will get better at this "keeping up with my blog thingy"!</i><br />
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The summer of 2013 was finished off by my wife and I taking our 15 month old (at that time) on her first plane flight and road trip. The plan was for her to meet as many family members from Becky's side of the family, while at the same time Becky and I capitalizing on any kiteboarding opportunities along the way. Additionally we had a wedding to attend. A close high school friend of Becky's was getting married just outside of Reno the day after we arrived. So yes, that was our first stop in the trip.<br />
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So, what is the extent of Avy's first mini-vacation and road trip?<br />
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Our itinerary included flying from Seattle to Reno. Attend a wedding and visit Grandpa and Grandma Grayson. Drive from Reno to San Francisco, seeing Avy's auntie Deanna as well as one of our most beloved friends, the infamous Blaze, and then making the trek down the California coast on Highway 1 all the way to LA for a few days and then on down to San Diego. After spending a few days in San Diego visiting family (and hopefully kiting) we would board a flight to San Padre Island in Texas to visit our good friends, Kynan Stevenson and his wife and son, Michelle and Erik. Erik is only about a year older than Avy, so it was a perfect place to go end our adventure. Plus, the hope was we could catch some kiteboarding in flat water while there as well.<br />
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Naturally the first stop in our little adventure was the airport. Just watching Avy get ready to board a plane was fun in and of itself. The tarmac and planes arriving kept her attention as she slowly painted the glass with her nose and lips. Yeah, gross...but cute all the same. <br />
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Once in the air, she may have been the easiest child ever, since she fell asleep about 5 minutes into the flight and didn't wake up until the landing gear dropped in Reno. I wonder where she got that from? :)<br />
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Once we landed in Reno, the first thing we noticed was how bad the smoke was from various fires burning in the hills around Carson City and Reno. Here are two pictures of the smoke. The first one is unprocessed. The second one is HDR.<br />
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Funny thing is, on day two as we were heading to Becky's friends wedding, while vision was down to about 200 meters due to the amount of smoke from the wild fires, the wind was blowing strong and steady. Roughly, 20 mph or so. And while driving through Washoe Valley I could see a lake and about the time I said "I bet we could kite in this lake right now" I noticed kites slowly emerging from the haze. Sure as shit, there were roughly 10 kites in the air.<br />
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Mental note taken. Stop by after the wedding and see if I can't find the beach they were launching from.<br />
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The wedding was beautiful, but of course, my mind kept wandering to Lake Washoe. Let me give some background here. The plan was to drive the day after the wedding to San Fran, but on the way, hit up Sherman Island. Certainly I didn't think Becky's skills were up to the task, but I have always wanted to ride there. That being said, the last thing I expected to find was kiteboarding in Grandpa Grayson's back yard. Lake Washoe is literally 5 minutes from his house and the hotel we were staying at.<br />
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On the way back from the wedding, I followed my hunches, trekked through some back country roads, asked a park ranger where to go, and eventually found that beach people kite from. The wind had died and people were packing gear in the cars, but they gave me friendly advice and told us the following day looked decent.<br />
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Long story short, after checking the forecast, Sherman Island looked like a bust for the next day so instead we planned to go with my gut, get breakfast with my in-laws, with the hope of hitting up Lake Washoe right after. My gut was right! The next day paid off. As we drove up, kites were already in the air.<br />
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Lake Washoe is located between Carson City and Reno, Nevada. It is a pretty shallow lake that is made up entirely of snow melt. In the end of August it was pretty warm on the Seattle standard scale. As such, I put on a shorty and was plenty warm, although there were many locals with full suits on.<br />
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I got an epic 2 hr session on my Naish 10m Park. Avy had a good time watching daddy, while Becky watched her and got her own kite pumped and ready to go, so that when I got off the water she could get out there. <br />
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Lake Washoe is perfect for beginners. It has a long curvy beach that will catch any kiter that ends up downwind. That plus knee to waste deep, semi-warm water for as far as you can ride makes it a pretty epic beginner beach. And I would also say, it was choppy, but well below what I would normally expect from 10m winds.....and certainly well within the acceptable chop for wakestyle tricks. This has to do with the fact that the wind doesn't have too long to push the water into waves before it reaches the kiters.<br />
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It was still smokey, but actually far less than everywhere else due to the wind speed. You can certainly see the smoke in the background of the pics.<br />
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Once we were done with riding for the day, we stopped by some friends, cleaned up, and headed on the road to San Fran. About 2 miles from Lake Washoe we got to see a herd of deer and grab a few pics. Pretty cool...obviously it was not hunting season.<br />
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Our plan was to spend the following day with Avy's Auntie Deanna (Becky's sister) as well as our most lovely friend, Blaze. We had an awesome time while in San Fransico. Avy even got to ride around a store shredding...with daddy's help of course.<br />
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We also got to visit some of the cool sites of San Fran.<br />
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The next morning we were on our way to LA. A road trip that ended up taking way longer than planned, on Highway 1, which hugs the coast of California the entire way. Anyways, it was a scenic 10 hour drive. We did stop along the way to enjoy some of the sites. One surprise was our stop at a lookout where we got to watch a few whales swim by, spouting every couple hundred of yards.<br />
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Once we did land in LA and checked into our condo on Venice Beach (totally epic little condo too) and we were greeted with the most beautiful of sunsets. I took quite a few pictures of the boardwalk in HDR that evening.<br />
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The next morning Avy and I headed down to the beach...a mere 100 meters from our door step. We had fun jumping waves, just in the same way I remember jumping them while hanging on my mom and dad when I was a kid.<br />
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After our time in the ocean and a stroll down the Venice boardwalk to admire all the muscles and silicon ;P we took a short walk to a cafe to meet with our friends Rick Radar and his wife, Chiara. Chiara and Becky grew up together and have kept in touch over the years. Both her and Rick came to our wedding in 2008. They had just adopted a gorgeous little boy 6 months prior to our trip...so we were stoked to see them and me the new little addition.<br />
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It was also funny to watch Avy get a little jealous to see her mother holding another baby.<br />
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Once breakfast was done, hiked back to the boardwalk for a cruise and a beer with our friends, and afterwards jumped in our rental and made our way across L.A. to a park to visit Becky's sister Robin, and her two children, John and Raina. Avy had a blast at the park, running around and spending her first afternoon with her Cali Cousins. Her older cousin Raina just really couldn't get enough of her...and Avy loved every moment of it.<br />
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After saying goodbye to family, the next day we were on our way to San Diego. This time we take I-5....I want to get there without 5 hrs of driving, if you know what I mean.<br />
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We have plans to spend two days there. One meeting up with friends (Renee and Wayne), as well as family (Becky's Uncle Butch and fam). <br />
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Here is the thing. We had heard there was occasional kiteboarding at a place called Paradise Cove. Yes, we met with friends and family. We had an awesome time. I took some pics. Avy rode a carousel for the first time....we went to Sea World too. But all of this paled in comparison to catching a dope sesh at Paradise Cove. It was epic. Other kiters there told us it was the first kiteable day in 3 months...so yeah, epic timing too!<br />
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Oh yes, so you may have noticed two things. 1) Avy did take a spill right before we left LA, where she took a coffee table right across the bridge of the nose. So yeah, that was fairly traumatic. 2) No, we didn't get any pictures of the kiting in Paradise Cove, San Diego. You have to take my word for it...but I had left my camera at the hotel. :(<br />
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Paradise Cove was amazing though. Flat water due to the cove structure....wind was light, I rode my 14m, Becky rode her 11m...... so yeah, light wind......but you know I fell asleep happy, content, and tired that evening.<br />
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So, we woke up the next day and were off to our friends house in Padre Island, Texas...just 30 minutes out of Corpus Christie.<br />
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Was Padre Island cool. Yes. Was it Texas. Yes. If you have been there you know what I mean...it's Texas. Not sure I would want to live there, but my buddy Kynan sure gets a ton of kiting in living there, almost all of it wet suite free.<br />
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Did we kite? Yes. In the four days there, we kited 2 of them, and the day we left was also windy...and I should note, we were there during the off season as far as wind goes. So yeah, my buddy gets his kiting in. No, we didn't get any pictures....but it was light wind (14m for me) but pretty much glassy, warm, shallow water. It was pretty sweet. I dialed in my backroll kiteloop with a hand drag during one of the sessions.<br />
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What else did we see? Well, our friends live on a water canal, so we kayaked, swam, fished, SUP'd, we would catch a great sunset every night....ate seafood, saw a dolphin swimming and surfing barge wakes in a shipping canal. The kids were a ton of fun to watch playing. So yeah...a pretty epic last few days to our awesome road trip.<br />
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And that was about it....a flight home to Seattle. We had a great time. Made awesome memories....and yeah, scored some wicked sessions along the way. For the first family trip with the three of us, I think all and all things went pretty well.<br />
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So, this concludes the kiting year of 2013. I have some updates coming that will fill you in on what has been going on in 2014....but i will have to get back to you, Hopefully not too long.<br />
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Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-62343219438848639652014-03-08T13:26:00.002-08:002014-03-08T13:26:22.563-08:00(recap of 2013 pt 3) Kiteboarding 4 Cancer 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For those that know about, as well as those that participate yearly, the KB4C event (Kiteboarding 4 Cancer) is one of the most "looked forward to" events held at the Hood River event site.<br />
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The event raises money for several cancer related research organization, as well as <a href="http://athletes4cancer.org/" target="_blank">Athletes 4 Cancer</a>, an amazing organization that sends young cancer survivors to a retreat, Camp Koru" on Hawaii that helps a them re-enter a life that has often drastically changed, and may at times feel like life ended even though they survived the cancer treatment. At Koru the campers learn to reengage with life through water sports, such as surfing, SUP, and kiteboarding. Check their website out.<br />
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Besides the money raised, many people come to be wowed by the sheer number of kites on the water at a single time during the 6 hour endurance race. Many riders clock well over 100 miles of riding in a single day by doing 60-70 laps around a 3 mile course.<br />
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This year I once again participated in the race, and while I didn't go the full distance, I did personally raise $1,000 to the cause during the weeks prior to the event.<br />
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Here are some pictures of me riding in the event....<br />
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While I don't have any pictures to prove it, the event was heavily attended by the pros. Jason Slezack, Craig Cunningham, Colleen Carroll, Sam Light, Renu Romeo, Brandon Sheid, and others I am sure that I am forgetting.<br />
Anyways, it was a hugely successful event, with a ton of money raised for the cause.<br />
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Here are a few other pictures from the event.<br />
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The spring of 2013 wasn't my best year for kiting opportunities, as the whole "kid thing" had finally become a reality, where my responsibility of picking up Avy from daycare (my wife drops her off at daycare) definitely cut into my ability to jam out of work and head straight to Jetty Island for a session. Spring of 2013 really was the first time I didn't have absolute freedom to kite at will.<br />
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Regardless, I was still teaching kiteboarding lessons for <a href="http://www.urbansurf.com/kiteschool/store/home.html" target="_blank">Urban Surf</a> so every weekend you would find me at Jetty Island. Many times I got to teach for a few hours and then get a good session in myself. Although...yes, I did get less time on the water in the summer of 2013 because I wasn't teaching both Saturday and Sunday like previous summers.<br />
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On a good sunny Sunday, I took the whole family to the island, including Avy's Grandparents (my mom and dad). The wind wasn't great, but Avy proved once again that she is a natural beach bum and water dawg.<br />
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Avy loves the water. Here you see her first body surfing experience.</div>
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Avy and her grandma....watching someone shlog around in the light wind.</div>
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Not to veer too far from kiting with all these pics of Avy, I bought my wife Becky a new 11M Naish Ride for an early bday present. She loves this kite. A very good kite for light wind riding with a ton of low end grunt.</div>
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And here I am, wearing my Chennai Super Kings Cricket Jersey (I got in when I went to India a month earlier...non-kiting trip or you would see pics). Definitely did not get the best session in on this day...but I had a great time. And, I did get a decent amount of kiting in at Jetty Island over the next 3 months of summer.</div>
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OK. To close out this post, I will say that I won't always bog down my posts with 100 shots of my little girl. But for this post I thought you may enjoy seeing Avy once again, among the Pacific Northwest kiters at Jetty Island, Seattle's premiere summer kiteboarding beach. </div>
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Alrighty, so in my quest to catch up on all the kiteboarding goodness that happened between my last post at the end of 2012 to the current date of March 2014, I am digging through my folders of pictures to see what I can find to interest you.<br />
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First session of the year was with my buddy, Dan aka Tuna, on Feb 16 2013. It was a short, gnarly, cold session at Lowman Beach in West Seattle. I brought along what was then new to me, the camera I had recently picked up. Here are some pics of Dan killing it on that cold, but sunny, winter day.<br />
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Crazy enough, Dan forgot his booties and still managed to kite for 20 minutes or so....pretty sure he didn't feel his feet for a week.<br />
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So I know I slacked off writing anything on this blog for roughly an entire year. In the next week I plan to update the blog with last years happenings, and where Becky and I are at with our dreams of chasing the wind.<br />
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Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-48226070558972758892012-10-03T10:52:00.001-07:002012-10-11T14:58:53.640-07:002012 summer recapHello, let me re-introduce myself. I am Ryan Theory.<br />
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I felt the need to reiterate who I am since I have been absent for 5 or 6 months since my last post. Yes, I guess I am a wildly irresponsible blogger, and now that we are headed into winter I probably won't be a whole lot better in the coming months. I apologize now ahead of the neglect of this blog.<br />
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So my intention, the reason for this post, is to just give a spring/summer season recap. Let me just start by saying this summer was awesome!<br />
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April and May were both pretty good months for wind. In late April we got almost 2 straight weeks of wind. Many kiters here in the Seattle area were in double digits for consecutive days riding. Spring was definitely not the warmest, but we made the best of it at the beaches. Often building a fire on Jettty Island to keep warm between, or after a good session.<br />
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For me, spring was also a pretty exciting, if not scary time, since my wife and I were expecting our first (and only) child in May. On May 31st my baby girl arrived. Her name is Avy Dejah Curtright. <em>pronounced "A V" and Dejah is like Deja Vu.</em><br />
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<em> Avy Dejah Curtright at 24 hrs old....</em></div>
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My little girl is the best. She is super smiley all the time and just a joy to be around. Even at 1 month old she was starting to head to Jetty Island to watch daddy kiteboard. In fact, on July 4th we went to Jetty and spent the day.<br />
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And here is my little diva enjoying her first day at Jetty Island on the 4th of July with daddy kiting in the background.</div>
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Avy even stayed at Jetty until after the fireworks show. Not one single crying session or fit in what ended up being a good 12 hr day at the beach.<br />
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And today I pick up my new 2013 7m Naish Park from the shop. The new Park comes in Orange and Blue....so we will see if I like it as much as the neon green combos.....<br />
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Also this summer I taught quite a few kiteboarding lessons for <a href="http://www.urbansurf.com/kiteschool/store/home.html" target="_blank">Urban Surf Kite School</a> on Jetty Island. In fact, I am about 1/2 of the way to my Level 2 IKO Certification. My goal is to get to Level 2 by the end of next summer season. And my wife and I are planning to pack the baby up and head on our life journey, chasing wind, looking for our own piece of paradise on Jan 1st 2014. That roughly 15 months from now...and now that we have a baby, I am sure that the time will fly by.<br />
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Some other cool tidbits of summer for me included DJing and competing in the <a href="http://athletes4cancer.com/events/kiteboarding-4-cancer" target="_blank">Kiteboarding 4 Cancer</a> event in Hood River. Not only did I DJ day 2 of the event, but I competed in the endurance race on Day 1. In order to compete I needed to fund raise or pay an entry fee. I decided to fundraise at last minute and didn't think I would actually make my goal of $500 before the event. But in less than 5 days I did hit my goal and was one of 30 or so people to hit the $500 mark. </div>
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To learn more about the event and who it benefited, click the link above. We brought in over 60 thousand dollars for <a href="http://athletes4cancer.com/" target="_blank">Atheletes 4 Cancer</a> this year, so it was an epic success.</div>
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Well, that about wraps up my summer. Once I started having to pick Avy up from her daycare I pretty much lost the ability for an after-work session...now I am just a weekend warrior. Hurry up life change and get here! That being said, heading straight home to spend time with this little doll isn't so bad...in fact, I love it.</div>
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As I promised, I have some pics from Oahu to show you. I am currently working on a little video to show the trip, but will recap some highlights for you with some pics.<br />
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First, I might mention that this wasn't a kiteboarding trip, but instead I was in Oahu mid-February for my little sister's wedding. That being said, my family was very accommodating and I got to kite 3 separate times in my 8 day trip...so not a bad deal at all.<br />
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The first time I kited was in unusually rare conditions with the wind coming from the SW. This means I got to walk out my condo and kite right in front of Waikiki Beach. Totally rad. The only bad thing is that my Contour Roam quit working, so I lost the helmet cam footage. Add to that bummer, I also had my 10m RPM ripping right down the middle of the canopy along the ripstop tape. I did get it professionally repaired when I returned, and thank goodness this was the only 10m day.<br />
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<em>Pumping up on Waikiki Beach</em></div>
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<em>Yep, big ass hole in my kite :(</em></div>
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<em>Nice sized group of us got the goodz!</em></div>
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After ripping my kite and coming in, I ended up meeting a kiter from Bellingham who was in Oahu visiting family. His name is Eric Schlemer. We exchanged numbers and planned to meet up and kite Kailua the following day.</div>
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When I gave him a call, he said he was instead going to take a boat to the Heeia Sandbar, and that if I wanted to, I could meet him and the launch and tag along. Becky came with me, even though she is pregnant and couldn't kite.</div>
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That being said, the wind was pretty light, but the flat water was epic. I had a bit of trouble staying upwind, but nothing I haven't dealt with on a light day at Jetty Island. There is a Naval base close by, so there is even a pic of my kite with a plane flying overhead.</div>
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After kiting, we met my folks for some lunch and Monkey Mike's, which is a roach coach along the side of the highway. It was awesome. After that shopped a bit, until it was time to meet my folks at Halieva Joe's. <em>pic below</em></div>
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Also, I am totally stoked, Spring has finally arrived in Seattle, and the kiting has been epic for the last 4 days in a row and doesn't show signs of stopping for at least another week. Hellz yeah. Should have some local pics and video for you soon as well!</div>
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So, Snowkite Soldier, a yearly snowkite poker run and competition in Camas Vally Idaho, was cancelled this year.
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But it didn't stop some of us that already had time off, hotel reservations, and for some of us flights too...... from making the treck from both Seattle and Bellingham. About 15 or so of us in all....
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We got there Friday morning, and got to ride Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So it was a great trip all in all.
The riding was pretty stellar, even if the first day was on a sheet of ice.
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Still, it was quite beautiful. <br />
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I hope you see a little of that in this video.
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We did have a storm blown in and cover everything with pow on day two.
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We also had a good night on the town. Local snowkite tour guide Brad Gordon was kind enough to tell us where to go for the best drinks in town...and like the gentlemen that he is, each day he also kept us informed as to where the best snowkiting was to be found.
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This video sucks...I am not an editor by any means, and I only used Windows Movie Maker. <br />
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This is really my first edited video ever and I was pretty lazy. <br />
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But hopefully you get to feel a little what it was like there.
Maybe it will inspire you to start kiting through the sport of snowkiting..... <br />
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Both Cameron and Galloway learned how to snowkite while we were there.
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I hope to get a better camera and to start using Adobe Premiere in the future.
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Let's get right down to business then.<br />
After a long cold Nov and Dec months with little to no riding, the month of Jan delivered by allowing me to score my first snowkite session in Snoqualmie Pass at Lake Skeechlus.<br />
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Here is a wind sensor reading for the day:<br />
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But as usual, I showed up somewhere with the wrong kite. No blaming it on Devon this time.....instead I blame it on Tuna!<br />
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Anyways, the two of us made the best of being way overpowered in blizzard-like conditions using our 10m kites, which were the smallest we brought with us. <br />
<em>Duh...when will I learn to always, always bring all the kites I have when I go riding just to be sure I got the right size for the current conditions.</em><br />
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Like I said, we had a blast, other than being lit at times, the snow was deep and wind was ripping. It was very cold with near 20-30 ft visibility at times. After a 200m walk in waist deep snow, yes we wore snowshoes, I was very tired but putting up a 10m in 7m conditions gets the blood pumping.<br />
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Anyways, enjoy the pics....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Stay tuned! I hope to have an Oahu trip and Snowkite Soldier update posted real soon....</div>Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-92201558339460811712011-11-16T10:15:00.000-08:002011-11-16T10:15:55.452-08:00Fall riding - Damon PointDamn, it's getting cold quick like in WA. Did that stop me from getting out on the water. No sir...well, at least with a little push and shove my buddy Jeff Lamb, aka Loki (<a href="http://www.pskite.org/">www.pskite.org</a> webmaster) I agreed to road trip it to Ocean Shores to hit the epic spot known as Damon Point.<br />
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Jeff hit me up, as his wife and newborn baby were on their way to see the in-laws. And Becky is out of town with her mom and sister....so could there be a better reason for two guys to head to the coast when the forecast is upgraded on Friday night? Hell no, there is no better reason. The wind is supposed to show up around 12pm and keep going from there.<br />
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So, after dropping Becky off at the airport, I get home and get the gear laid out. Jeff arrives at 7am and we are on the road, a 3 hr trip, to Ocean Shores. Our buddy John Hausman gives me a ring at 7:30am to let me know he is also on the road. We all meet up at a coffee shop in Aberdeen. Then the caravan makes the last of the drive, arriving at Damon Point at 10:30 am-ish.<br />
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl" target="_blank">Damon Point</a><br />
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When we arrive there are already a few kites on the water. Excitedly we jump out of the car into extremely chilly wind. <br />
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Anyways, we suit up. I even opt to wear a helmet just to keep me a little warmer. If you know me then you also know I never wear a helmet....but I can honestly say that it has now become a part of my winter apparel because it did keep my head warmer in the cold wind.<br />
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I pump my 10m RPM. It is just enough to be fully powered, not too much, just enough. I ride for a good 3 hrs session. At the point my legs are jelly I head in. Dan aka Tuna invites us over to his place about 2 miles away for a lunch break....and a chance to warm up a bit. We take up his offer and head over. I am glad I had stopped in the morning and stocked up on beer and a sandwich, which I take advantage of at Dan's place. After refueling and warming back up, we head back for another session.<br />
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Another 1 -2 hrs of awesome super lit 13m conditions wait us. When we get off the water, barely able to stand up, the wind is still blowing. That is how you know when it was an epic, epic day. You stop riding because of exhaustion, even though the wind is still ripping. Yeah, 100% epicnesss!!!<br />
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Before I leave though, I grab the camera from the car and get a few shots of my pals riding.<br />
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After packing up, and getting these epic pics, we head back to Dan's house. A quick stop at the grocery store first to stock up on sausages and buns, cream cheese and jalapenos, and of course more beer is all we need to end a truly awesome day.<br />
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Dan and his roommate are quite the hosts....and after such an amazing day on the water I am not sure that any dawg has ever truly tasted this good. I am beat. Refueling was totally necessary in order to make the 3 hr trip back to Seattle.....but it was sooo worth it!!!!<br />
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<em>Stay tuned....final Puerto Rico kitesurfing update is coming soon. I just got the last of the pictures from our trip...which is what I had been waiting on for the last P.R. recap post.</em>Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-48774103727776104332011-10-18T14:50:00.000-07:002011-10-18T14:50:34.898-07:00Summmer / Fall recap (part 4) - Double Bluff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SdRFHfiSrbpBaG0u_DUxaSXph60Z8cTnoMXFjpjayJA_N_WBYN50QJKEDgCKcjl6YMdAhIBEp11ePegsj9FOoRIFGzaYk5vzLT5FCt00JCBkNQ3UxIsIIyy570n71lr-0iQhTQdPzml_/s1600/Db-9-25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SdRFHfiSrbpBaG0u_DUxaSXph60Z8cTnoMXFjpjayJA_N_WBYN50QJKEDgCKcjl6YMdAhIBEp11ePegsj9FOoRIFGzaYk5vzLT5FCt00JCBkNQ3UxIsIIyy570n71lr-0iQhTQdPzml_/s400/Db-9-25.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>Double Bluff</em></div>September the 25th ushers in true Fall weather conditions in the Pacific Northwest. This means that the wind will be blowing from the south, and usually is much stronger than summer winds. 10m is average, but 6m-8m conditions are not uncommon.<br />
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<div> </div>I pick K.C. up and we meet other kiters in the ferry line to head over to Whidbey Island. The plan is to hit up Double Bluff.<br />
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<div> </div>And DB doesn't disappoint, as there are 10 or so kites up when we arrive. It felt pretty light onshore so stupidly I pumped the 13m. It becomes apparent quickly that it is way too windy for a big kite. So I pump up my 10m. Needless to say I am litski!<br />
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<div> </div>I have two things to tell for you from this epic day.<br />
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<div> </div>The first is that somehow I must not have connected my leash completely to my safety line. How do I know this? Well because the first time I wiped out while unhooked and let go of the bar...I get to watch my leash go tight, snap back at me, and my kite flies off to land in the water 50 or more meters from me. <br />
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<div> </div>I am a good 300 meters from shore...maybe a bit more.<br />
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<div> </div>I luckily get a fellow kiter to tow me for a bit hanging off the back of his harness, and with a ton of additional swimming I get within feet of another kiter who has grabbed my lines. Right as I get 15 feet away or so the kite powers up and yanks out of his hands. Off it goes again.<br />
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<div> </div>Eventually after much more swimming I get to shore. Some high school kids have grabbed my kite and kept it from continuing on, in what would have surely damaged my kite, if not at least stuck it on the roof of a beach house.<br />
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<div> </div>It takes me a good 20 minutes to untangle my lines and rig up the kite. A break which I gladly took as I was still out of breath from the long swim in.<br />
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<div> </div>Lessons #1) Recheck the leash connection to the safety lines before launching.<br />
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<div> </div>Once I make this check and recheck, I self launch and head out. I am between the main riding area and the slick at the other end of Useless Bay.<br />
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<div> </div>I start riding towards the slick where I can see a few kites belonging to my friends up in the air. After riding about 200 meters or so, I see black shapes moving in the water off my left hand side. At first I think that it may be a group of Sea Lions swimming, however upon closer inspection I can clearly see dorsal fins as the backs of the animals arc out of the water. It is most definitely a pod of porpoises, and they are swimming in a trajectory that should intersect with my current direction.<br />
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It is hard to tell how many of them there are as I am not sure how deep they are diving or if they are just staying right at the surface. My estimates are between 8 and 16 porpoises.<br />
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I adjust my speed slightly trying to time it perfectly and riding through the midst of the breaching mammals.<br />
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As I get closer to the moment of intersection, I realize I have timed it perfect. I lean way back, getting myself as close to the water as possible, hoping that if one breaches I will be close enough to touch it. <br />
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Seconds later I am cutting through the middle of the pod. Behind me two porpoises breach, and with quick reflexes and almost wiping out, I am able to run my hand down the back of a porpoise from right behind the dorsal fin down to mere inches from its tail.<br />
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I instantly look around me hoping that there is someone close enough to have seen my magic moment.<br />
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I am not that lucky. Oh well, it was amazing and maybe a moment I wasn't supposed to share.<br />
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When I get to shore I ecstatically tell several of my friends to their amazement. I am sure none of them would have believed me if it wasn't that a fellow kiter remarked that the porpoises had been sighted in Useless Bay several times over the recent weeks. He also believe they were Dall'ss porpoises.<br />
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I mistakenly say at one point to Darcy (wicked good female kiter) that I saw a dolphin, before I corrected myself, and before she corrected me with a "You sure they weren't porpoises? I am pretty sure there are not dolphins in the Pugest Sound."<br />
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Anyways, later I did some research.<br />
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I am positive that the porpoises were in fact Harbour porpoises, and not Dall's porpoises. I can say this with certainty for three reasons. <br />
<ul><li>One, they were the smallest looking porpoises I have ever seen. </li>
<li>Two, because the dorsal had an arc shape. (I know this because I got a very up close look) </li>
<li>three, because there was not any white on the bodies of any of the porpoises in the group.</li>
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</div>One last thing to note, is that when I was researching the type of porpoise my encounter was with, I found this picture.<br />
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It is a picture taken in July 2011 in the Olympia WA area of the Puget Sound. And that my friends is a "common dolphin". So I guess that while I misspoke when telling my story to Darcie, it is certainly not outside of the realm of possibility...which is just another cool thing about being a kiteboarder in the Pacific Northwest!!!Theory of the Wind Rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419996194821605441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356797544110444616.post-69040817974645145382011-10-11T18:48:00.000-07:002011-10-17T16:04:19.852-07:00Summmer / Fall recap (part 3) - Clayton BeachOn the 10th of September, and what was to be the last decent northerly of the season, Becky and I picked up my buddy K.C., and headed up north to the Bellingham area. <br />
Plans were to hit up Hunter. Halfway on the 1 1/2 hr drive north we got word that the wind hadn't filled in at Hunter, and that we should drive another 15 minutes north to the state park. Once there we quickly found the trail-head to walk to Clayton Beach.<br />
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The walk is awesome, and is in fact a downward hike via a well worn path through a beautiful state park. Huge fir and cedar trees line the path. It is a good 1/2 mile or more to the beach, but well worth the walk. The smells and sites of the forest are always welcome, especially if it preludes a wicked good session.<br />
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Not too far from the desired beach we take a wrong turn, but are able to quickly rectify the problem and find the "correct" trail down to the beach. As I walk over a small ridge I am welcomed by the sight of a few kites up, one being Andy (owner of <a href="http://www.bellinghamkiteboarding.com/">www.bellinghamkiteboarding.com</a> ) tearing it up in the sun, cruising on a warm yet windy day.<br />
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</div>So in typical fashion I rush down the hill with reckless abandon and once I hit the beach and I get my gear set up in record time. <br />
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</div>So yeah, like 10 minutes later I am putting on my shorty.....yes, a shorty for kiting in the Puget Sound. OK, I will admit I wasn't thinking when I made the hike from the car to Clayton Beach with only my shorty on hand. The full suit is in the car....oops. <br />
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If I may explains myself, Hunter is notoriously warm because it is shallow. Clayton is not shallow, and as such it has temps similar to Golden Gardens in Seattle....that is to say, it is freaking cold!<br />
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That isn't to say it stopped me from riding. It just means that after the first or second body dragging session to retrieve my board, I started riding a little more carefully. No unhooking! The raley I missed was the cause of a 15 minute body drag. You know the ones where you are dizzy by the time you get your board back...usually in cold water? So yeah, time to take it easy. Just cruising around and boosting. <br />
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I rode for a good 2 hours, in the sun, kickin it one last time in what could be considered the last day of summer....at least to me.<br />
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