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Updates: 1) Our month-long Philippine trip was fantastic! Check it out here on our Trips web page 2) Due to surgery and PE hospitalization we have canceled our usual spring/summer trip. We'll go in the fall if recovery is as expected. More information at Getting Older in the Health and Fitness section of our Smart Stuff web page.

Showing Off Kiteboarding to:

Ch 3 Tease Good Morning Arizona	(37 sec)
with Scott Pasmore	(4:35 min)

Ch 12 Tease AZ Central	(11 sec)
with Syleste Rodriguez & Joe Dana	(3:26 min)

As of July, 2011 we are a

PASA: Professional Air Sports Association

Certified Kiteboard Instructor. Click here for our documentation page.

Van Auxilliary Power Project

Van Auxilliary Power Project strained our brain but now is on its second shake-down cruise (OBX trip). More information here on our Technology web page, which now has its own TECHNOLOGY INDEX.

Bolivia Highway of Death, Finally got these picutres up on our Stupidity web page.

AR Drone Quadracopter

Quadracopter, on our Technology web page, is the neatest toy you've ever seen. See it and others in motion

New Van? We were about to replace our minivan with a Toyota Sienna to get all wheel drive, a little more storage space and some more modern features. Here's our wish list of features, followed by the reasons we did not buy it.

Who would-uh'thunk that Wikipedia has 30 screens of well-organized history, techniques, equipment, safety, terminology, lingo etc. about kiteboarding!

Randy Pausch, sucomed to pancriatic cancer

Randy Pausch has been an unbelievable inspiration to us with his famous Last Lecture and Time Management presentations. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (guaranteed death), was given 6 months to live and yet had a most positive view toward life. You've got to listen to him.

Weather Channel's Jim Jim Cantore's Kiteboarding Taking Off Across the Country (on our Trips web page) aired on NBC's WPTV, Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, FL and we were selected for the intro!

Ratios have arrived on our Smart Stuff webpage, in case you want to relax and enjoy life, not having to worry about how much money you spend on things like housing and vehicles.

Naish Custom Fish 5’2” x 17.5” surfboard, which we are using WITHOUT the footstraps

Our New Board for the 09 season: a Naish Custom Fish 5’2” x 17.5” surfboard, which we are using, of course, without the foot straps.

Take some line! We keep an extra 6’ piece of kite line in the pocket of our harness for things like to tether to our board in case we had to walk or swim in, considering we are no longer using a board leash. We used it unexpectedly during a Planet of the Apes downwinder. Our chicken line broke and we were able to use the extra line to repair it rather than to have make the hour-long walk back to civilization.

Mile Post Index now available for OBX on our Locations web page. Now you can easily find the stores you want when you're in the Nags Head area.

Download the OBX Maps from our Locations web page, where you will find the maps we have developed over years of riding. While you're on that page you can download over 160 of our GPS kiteboarding locations in four different formats - even one for Google Earth!

Take lessons! Kiteboarding does not require much strength, as the pull of the kite is on your harness instead of your arms. Mostly you need skill in controlling... (more)