Thursday, July 31, 2008

Amazing Dolly :) ;)

So I took afternoon off yesterday. I was singing to myself all in smiles driving on M50 watching trees and any other light objects moving :) Then I got a phone call from Gav...
- Are you on your way?
- yahhh, on M50
- oh... well, I suppose you may as well keep on going then
- what's wrong?
- no wind, just completely died off!

Oh, no!!! Arrived to the empty beach, no single kite in the air, not a breath of wind. Colly was optimistic - "It will pick up!". And it did!!! Within half an hour it was blowing, I was so powered up on 9m I couldn't quite believe it. It didn't feel strong as it was warm and constant, nice SSE wind.
Another absolutely amazing session on Dolly! Started on Gavin's 9m Rebel, then switched to my 7m Rebel.
Finally getting all my frontloops, but not all landings are good - sometimes the mix of popping hard and swinging the kite too aggressively give me almost a heart attack. It's a great buzz but also bit scary to rotate so high up, I don't think I can jump as high as I do when rolling to the front ;) Next time need to work on lighter version, slow my rotation and try to grab the board:)
Got few nice jumps with grabs and was practising my newly learnt downloop transitions and waterstarts . First time tried jump backloops, quite different feeling to just launching off the wave, they are definitely higher and slower. Also very happy to finally attempt jumping to my bad side - first few were awful but then it got bit better, well at least I'm trying...
Still can't get jump transitions and pop transitions, sometimes it works most often it doesn't - popping problems, need to work on it next time!
Was off the water at 7pm, just on time as somebody pull the plug off and wind completely died off for good. So it was a good day and I got lots of it. Moving forward :)

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