Here's something to think about: April 2, here at Chesterman's in Tofino, I caught a lose kite that was blowing down the beach. The thing is, that I was not kiteboarding, I was walking with my 14 month old son in the stroller, and the kite fully ran us over. What if ...(insert any possible situation ...

I'm in. Picture Johnny's eyes buggin out as he says "Rockets!"

Well said Tom. Think of all those nuts and bolts and among other things bullets. Think of all those tales of injury narrowly avoided, or totally unavoided! (Always followed by recuperation and recovery about twice as fast as the doctor ordered. The undisputed master of self-cast-removal.) Who else ...

No that's not me. But it sure looks like that guy that got busted last week for "swimming on his surfboard" in Cordova Bay. He's a real maniac, mumbling something about getting in shape, paddling that surfboard, in the morning, in 0 knots of wind, up to 100 METERS OFFSHORE, and in water that was as ...

Thanks windependant, you're right that new generation bow kites change the equation a bit, but what I'm saying is that true beginners should launch unhooked and depowered because inexperience and panic can make some people pull IN on the bar, and things go downhill fast from there. As soon as a ...

hey here's a quick report on what happened with the kiteboarding side of things last weekend at Nitinaht Windfest, Aug. 12 and 13th

Judy and Dale set up a great homebase/registration motorhome and a dj booth to go with the killer 10 000 watt sound system that came with a sound guy, Lee. He sorted ...

I thought I'd start this as a new topic, so new kiters can have a thread to go to for safety advice learned from past accidents. Hopefully we don't have to add to this very often.
Accident: Nitinaht, Jul. 23/06
The accident as I saw it:
Typical sunny day at the lake, wind around 20 knots had just ...

Just a reminder to come on out and support your local event at Nitnat this weekend: tons of prizes and stuff to give away, great riding, equipment demos, beer, music... weather forecast looks great, see you there!

C'mon poleskippers, help out Bobson. On the kite side, Mark Sprungman and me, Grant MacPherson, are going to put on a kite event. We're going to keep it really simple and fun, the whole idea being to get people together and ride and keep it friendly. Right now we're thinking of having some demo gear ...

I like the fishing vid too. Back to SGH, the album's called Has Been. And Eric, the pov shots are done with my mini dvcam in a housing, not a waterproof still/vid cam, is that what you meant? Thanks everyone for watching and giving feedback, I'm stoked to shoot some more this season! By the way, if ...

Yep SGH and Brad, it's William Shatner's Cap't James Kirk voice on the song originally by Pulp.

hey thanks Chris, you still on the California/Oregon coast?

that's at http://oceanrodeo.com

Hey all, I've stitched some video footage together for your viewing pleasure. It's short, called 100 Seconds, and its up on the Ocean Rodeo website. Check out the site and get to it in the gallery section, right side of the page. Watch Mike hit the camera kite and other fun stuff...
Grant