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bulae99
Since 12 Jul 2006
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 Fri Jul 11, 08 10:27 am Look before you turn! |
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Holy Crap,
Did I say this a while back???? Look before you send your kite too. Look around you and think about ROW.
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Jackal
Since 17 Dec 2005
147 Posts
WS
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 11:03 am |
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| Please look before you post. If you said it before, then why say it again- especially if no one listened to you in the first place! |
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richshunter
Since 22 Jun 2008
11 Posts
St. Louis, MO
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 11:03 am |
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| Spotting a nice trough, I started to look back before a jibe the week I arrived, but only had to turn my head 90 degrees to see a kiter blasting past me, less than 20' downwind. We were outside the bouy heading south toward the spit. I suspect, in his mind, he was racing me, while I was searching for a good trough to jibe in before reaching the flat water. |
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Scriffler
Since 03 Jul 2005
581 Posts
LYLE
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 11:07 am |
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| I think you should ban this dude from posting. Just a thought. |
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Diggy
Since 25 Nov 2006
342 Posts
Gorge to Coast
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 11:39 am Don't follow too closely if your a little downwind. |
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Look before you turn seems to be a repeating them, and warranted.
I think the other side of this is don't follow too closely to someone out in front of you, and if you are close in to the person in front of you stay a little bit upwind so that when they turn and loose a little ground downwind your not in the same place.
I find that someone can turn directly in front of me and not affect my line so long as I am a small distance upwind of them, but if I am downwind it is a recipe for distaster.
~dig
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holly
Since 09 Jul 2006
440 Posts
Hood River
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 12:39 pm |
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| dude you are unreal.. are you from the dalles or something?? |
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pappas
Since 10 Jun 2007
58 Posts
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 1:18 pm |
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| Funny, the intermediate teaching the blind and raving about his intellectual prowess regarding common sense shit. |
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bulae99
Since 12 Jul 2006
1692 Posts
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 7:01 pm LOL |
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Look before you post!
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boarderchick
Since 10 Aug 2007
196 Posts
Wherever there's wind:-)
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| Fri Jul 11, 08 8:44 pm |
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| Well.......... This was a topic of conversation at the CGKA and CKWA meeting last night, and it is an important safety guideline. There's been quite a bit of people not looking before doing something, and kites bump, or people are forced to make quick turns, and others feel they are very defensive riders. But, that I believe is discussed in the CGKA notes section. |
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