Kite Skates

Had the pleasure of spending the afternoon filming George recently and I have to say I'm a bit in awe of how easy he makes this look. Enjoy.

I am chuffed to be the first to say CHEERS John That was well cool.

Good song, well editied, good mix of footage and bonza on the 'stable' hands mate
Got any more

Good effort yourself there George
Diggin the smooth transitions man !! ... and good to see you like a little bush
Where is that spot .... fergin awesome. Bet your tempted to play on the bitumen

Top effort on both the kiting, filming and post production work.

Marty, it's Geelong, next to the Botanical gardens. The older footage of Goshen was shot there too.

John, what CAM did you use, looks a bit too close in for the GoPro? Good quality.

Regards,
Norman.

Cheers guys, used the tripod and Panasonic cam for that one. There is a bit more footage, Marty. Maybe enough to have a play around with another vid.... Also lots of footage of George disappearing out of shot or not in the shot cos the camerman couldn't keep up Makes me want to learn to skate! I was also slightly in awe of how well George controls that 9m Frenzy in 20 knots (I noted that on the BOM, readings at the nearby airport said gusts to 28 knots) and I was well powered on a 4m XT! I gotta eat more greens.....

It was an awsome day's kiting, with a camera man that makes you look good.

John your the Vid king...


To Marty, I like Big bush buddy, they just keep triming them down to nothing these days..

The plan was to go over that bush and then the wind just dropped off and got a mouth full...

Had a bit more footage...too good not to put it in another vid

Two really good videos there
Thanks John and George

Appreciated John

Some interesting observations for any newbies watching Johns videos .... you will see that a good majority of Georges jumps are performed using only one hand to control the kite. This tells/proves a number of things.

- The benifits of a kite with lighter bar pressure

- By flying one handed, you tend to hold the bar in/near the centre. Your adjustments are more subtle reducing the chances of oversteering/choking the kite during a boost.

- The power of the kite is transferred directly through the centre cord into your harness, not by holding onto the bar with white knuckles.

Nice flying George

That is some very cool film action. Those jumps are very controlled and pretty bloody big.

Please make some more videos like this.


Also. that spot also looks fantastic with all the roller coaster type topography to launch off.

Bob

Excellent kiting there George very nice to watch, smooth skillfull flying!!!! and nice filming too John

Thanks guys, John did all the hard work though, and he did it well...


Spartan

John did all the hard work though, and he did it well...

Yeah, George looked like crap until I ran him through some filters and edited all his stacks out. Except for one....

Just kidding. Thanks George.

JOHN / George
Sorry for the delay, but stoked to see you guy's gettin out and havin a play, cool vid, Sick Sound's N Sweet Move's..... Put's me back in lalaland
Gotta get a pair of those PowerSlides, the new set up look's sweet & Light Thanks for the link George
Nice to see people flyin this time of year
Dave

JOHN / George
Sorry for the delay, but stoked to see you guy's gettin out and havin a play, cool vid, Sick Sound's N Sweet Move's..... Put's me back in lalaland
Gotta get a pair of those PowerSlides, the new set up look's sweet & Light Thanks for the link George
Nice to see people flyin this time of year
Dave

Cheers Dave.