Choosing your first kite.

Make the first steps into the sport small steps; using a small kite around 1.5m or 2m is perfect. If you can get one with a bar that would be great but if  it comes with handles that's ok, you will be able to put a bar onto it later on.

Be careful if it is your local beach you don't want to go pissing people off straight away. Don't fly it over peoples heads they wont like it, even if they do like it don't do it, it is just dangerous. Kite lines are extremely sharp when under load and will take a ear off very easily so don't buzz people with your kite.

Your first kite doesn't have to cost the earth but like most things you do pay for quality so don't go for a cheep one; it will just hold you back and it will probably break the first time you take it out in any sort of strong winds.

Invest in something with proven track record. Flexifoil's are great kites. www.flexifoil.ie

Next now that you have become one with your trainer kite and you can fly it with your eyes closed it is time to get a lesson. You must to get a lesson. You need to get the right information at the beginning. It is like I said before the basics are the most important. It's simple if you don't get a lesson three things are going to happen.

1. you will hurt yourself.

2. you will break your kit.

3. you will hurt some one else with you ignorance.

So get smart get a lesson.

Come let me keep you safe! I will kit you up in my helmets, impact vest, and harness; it is all included in the lesson cost.

Come use and abuse my kites that is what they are designed for it. They are made to help beginners to get them pass that frustrating beginning stages.

All the kites are designed to be safe and easy to handle. I want you have the most fun as possible.

Sully Joe and Nick came down to lovely kerry to learn how to kitesurf.

Sully Is the Sully form Cully and Sully.

Cully is up and riding already and a little while back he got Two 12.5 ion2 and a 16.5 ion2 printed up with with there logos.

These was done buy flexifoil.

We had a great weekend of kite fly and splashing around in the water.

Here is Sully getting to grips with his 12.5 ion2.

These was a nice evening on the sand bar under mossies reef,

Underground Free wave 5,4 and a Flexifoil 9m Ahpro kite.

16/20 knots cross on form the right 3.5m west swell. 

Picture captured buy www.paulhopcroft.com

yo hello boys and girls,

What a amazing place Chile is. The people are so so friendly and helpful, and we have really tested this by getting lost at every single opportunity humanly imaginable....as in the best one was getting lost for three hours just trying to go ten blocks down the same street...oh dear.

it is really really chiled out here in the sun hehehehe sorry had to throw that one in. We have travelled up and down the coast loads, been up north to Maitencillo and Pitenchuiy or however you spell it, through Valparaiso, San Antonio (got lost again for about fifteen hours) and down to Matanzas, which is Spanish for "The Killing." And now we know why....

We got one really good day in, the first day we were there (Sat). The wave was really pumping, perfect cross shore and a 12-13 foot face. Nice. Unfortunately then the bad luck struck, first when I accidentally got the nose of my board caught in my right line, and dove my 11m in front of a heavy bastard of a wave... basically, it was a case of Rest In Pieces...nuff said.

Untangled my lines and sulked a bit, then pumped my 9m and with the encouraging ring of "quit your bitching, get back on the horse" ringing in my ears, I went back out to show the wave who's boss...

Unfortunately (do you spot a pattern here?) round two didn't go so well... Third wave into the session, (and it was shaping up to be a really good session, really working well, I was really feeling it) the wave was forming up in front of me, i went for a hard off the lip aerial and then BAM. My front foot slipped from my footstrap and I found myself in the splits with ten foot of wave coming down on my head. NOT GOOD. 

PAIN. Real, serious pain. Thought I had broken something as I dragged into shore. Four days later, we finally got a verdict from a radiologist who has told me that I have torn a tendon in my leg. That woudl explain the big ass bruise and the enormous swelling (AKA "Ryan's pregnant leg") and so that is the end of the dream....for now. For this event, anyway. 

Bring on the Arnica and the road to recovery, and then BRING ON the next shot at this wave. I'm not done with it yet...I swear i am going to come back and rip seven holes of shit out of this wave. Until then, all that's left to do is enjoy sunny Chile as a proper tourist.

See you in the soup...