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Training 2008
January was the best month of kitesurfing I’ve ever had. It was windy every day. I went to Witsand, which is an insane spot, the flattest water I’ve kited. Going to Witsand really got me back in to wake riding. My JL Park is made for this place. Its big and wide so it pulls through nearly all the 50% landings. Blind sides are a pleasure too, I got to really develop blind more in Witsand. Langebaan was also another place I went too. In shark bay it’s the choppiest most annoying place in the world but it’s good for you to kitesurf these places sometimes. If you get to frustrated and get angry you lose. It’s a good challenge. You always lose anyway eventually though there is only so much chop you can handle. Round the mountain in Langebaan it gets windier as the wind filters through. At the start of January I kited here a lot as the water is much flatter but as the month went on the wind just went mental all the time their. There is no need to travel an hour away to be on my 7 as I can be on it here every day.
Twice since I have been here we have kited the secret spot in the mountains. I like it their its minor chop and you have the whole place to yourself. Muizenburg takes about an hour to get too, I’ve only kited this place once this year. It’s bang onshore and windy and is a sharky spot. No mega tacks at this place.
Today is windy again although I am injured yet again. Yesterday I sent the kite into a megaloop that should never have been sent into. I ignored rule one of Megalooping.
“NEVER MEGALOOP UNLESS EVERYTHING FEELS OK”
I was excited it was the windiest it’s been lately and I haven’t really sessioned my smaller JL board too much this year. A couple of times when I got here but it needs to be storm winds for this one. It’s a 126cm model 3 with 2cm fins instead of 1.5,cm this way I can get more grip when I need it when it’s nuking. I could handle the conditions fine it was about 40 knots and flat in between the waves. I was off balance into my first megaloop of the session and sent it anyway. I was hoping for all it was worth that the kite would save me as I fell down but I just kept on going. I have yet another rib injury and I don’t know how long I will be out for this time. The reality is I deserved it. It was a good reminder of the megaloop rule number 2:
“MEGALOOPS ARE DANGEROUS”
It was another kitesurfing lesson, sometimes everything is going amazing, you are learning and you can’t get enough of kitesurfing but in an instant it can all be taken away, at least for a while. Sometimes I think this is meant to happen though. My body gets a rest; I can have a break and reflect on my kitesurfing and where I want it to go when I am repaired.
<<<LEWIS>>>
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