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so we did what we have been doing for the last couple weeks packed up and headed for the beach, it was after about an hour i realized that i was not able to balance on moving objects. this was something i also found out when i was a lot younger and my grand parents had bought me a skate board.

so i made the decision that Kiteboarding was not the route for me, so it was kite surfing or buggying. well as it happens i am a really poor swimmer so i settled on buggying.

One quick Ebay auction later and i was ready to go.. hmm doesn’t look very safe does it.

The weekend couldn’t have come quick enough, but it did eventually turn up so i headed back to the beach for some fun in my new buggy. after a bit of head scratching and contemplation i managed to get a mass of metal tubing connected together and i was away.

After trying a lot of different things it finally hit me that my newly acquired three meter Kite was not up-to the job of pulling me along the beach..

in fact i’m pretty sure a category 5 hurricane would have struggled to move me and the buggy down the beach using my current kite. i was a little bit gutted by this thought as i was a little bit attached to my little kite, it was the first one i owned and what i had been using till now.

Time to get back on the internet for some research..

I found myself telling Ebay to notify me when nearly every kite for sale in the UK came close to ending, after a bit of a bidding war and two near misses it happened.

Ebay : Congratulation you have won.

i was now the proud owner of a 3m Powerkite, all i had to-do now was wait for it to arrive….

The two days it took for this kite to go from the previous owner to me seemed to drag on forever.

Eventually i came home from work to find a package with my name on it. so i sat down unpacked it and found an uncontrollable grin working its way across my face at the thought of my new Kite.

Not long after this i phoned a friend and made arrangements to get out into the local fields to have ago with my new purchase. after unpacking and getting everything setup, i was slightly disappointed to find my new Kite refused to fly and when it did fly it was near enough uncontrollable.

After some tinkering with lines / knots and other kite related bits i was in business, after that my time was spent  getting to grips with the basics of Power Kite flying, control and also trying to ensure i did’nt end up being dragged of my feet.

It was a short while after my friend had launched his Kite i realized how much respect they demand.

Whilst talking to him and running through the usual list of questions someone new would be expected to ask. my friend was halfway though an answer to a question, when without warning he disappeared off down the field quite quickly in the same way Superman would take to the skies.

The only difference however my friend was not Superman, so we set off after him to check he was ok, after a brief amount of cursing at the Kite he explained to me that whilst he had been talking to me he had taken his eyes (and concentration) off the Kite and it had decided to remind him that not paying attention would come with consequences.

So whilst Superman he decided he needed a few moments to recover and asked me and another friend if either of us wanted to try flying the kite, Now im not sure what the difference between my friends though process was and mine but the outcome was he said NO and i said YES , I was then given some quick lessons on Kite control and the basics.

It was at this point i found myself standing in a field flying the largest kite i had ever encountered at this point, it was surprisingly easy to-do, i had expected to be fighting to make sure i did not become this Kites next tool for flattening out the ferns, but it was nothing like that at all, it sounds cheesy but its as though the Kite knew what i wanted to-do as very minor movements from me made it react and move very easily.

After about 10 – 20 minutes (it felt a lot longer in my head), i had started to become a little more relaxed and braver as well, so i started to-do more things and also started to investigate the amount of pull a 3m piece of nylon could develop. I can happily say that they develop a LOT of pull. So with my friend still a little dazed and me being pumped full of adrenaline i decided this was something i could get into.

By this point it was getting cold dark and windy so we decided it was time to head for home, i was almost as happy to hear this as i was flying the kite. My Reason? Ebay / internet / google so many ways the geek inside me could now start researching Power Kites and how i could get involved.