(Special Post) Community Kite Project

Hey Guy’s

A little bit of a different flavour to our daily blog today, rather than the usual wind and wave talk, were featuring a group of local kid’s from Pak Nam Pran (Pranburi), who over the past ten months or so, have been regular users of our handle-pass training swing at the front of Kitezone.

Swinging out over the water.....no fear at this age!!

There are three young local lads that have always shown keen interest in kitesurfing and they often sit and watch the guy’s out on the water as they pop their latest tricks, while thinking that one day…..maybe……..if there really lucky!!

Well as  from yesterday, there one step closer to making that dream of cruising around the ocean and boosting into the air, a reality…….as there now the proud owners of a brand new Squirt 1m trainer kite each, kindly donated by Willy the boss at Kitezone.

Dodging the debris washed up by the flood water from Bangkok, we need a good high tide to wash the last of it away!

Who know’s maybe the next Hadlow or Yo in the making….we plan to keep you posted on there progress and maybe we could be seeing one or two of these guy’s handle passing on the water soon!!

Great to see the kids getting involved in something that is keeping them fit and active, while at the same time, having fun…..no X-Box for these guy’s!!

 

 

OK! I’m sure your all keen to know what the winds been doing here today, well…… I’m happy to say, that is been blowing around 17-22 knots all blooming day!!

Here’s a few shots from today’s action!!

Pop’s carving it up!

 

Manu chewing up the chop, fully lit on the 12m.

Manu sporting the tea pot look!    styling!

Alex,   Happy to be back on the water after four months!

the wind is well and truly here guy’s, so why aren’t you!!

 

BMW Club comes to visit!

Kiters on the water 1pm-5pm avg 17 gusts 20.

party time!

it’s the weekend and a bmw club from bangkok came down for the weekend. they had a live band on stage right in front of the kite club. more thai country songs than you could ever wish for!
they were the rockstars on the night, but the next day we were – they were all taking pictures of us playing around in front of the club the next day. felt good!

lovely kitesurfing

Pranburi Perfect!

Kiters out riding 11am-5pm avg 17 gusts 22.

another day on the 9s!
but a nicer day today – started at a sensible time like 10.30 rather than howling at 8am like the last 3 days. waves still big, current still strong in front of the shop but manageable upwind a couple of hundred metres. seems to be an area about a hundred metres out of beautiful fast 2m high rolling waves. they look scary as you get close but never break on you and give you a big push if you get it right.
more of the same tomorrow!

Pranburi Perfect!

Pranburi Perfect!