Land boarding has grown, in recent years, to understand how a large inflatable kite makes just about every activity one hundred times greater. I have had fun on a mountain board going down the grassy and overgrown summer ski slopes in Maine. I have also enjoyed a land board towed behind a bicycle, and through a dirt coarse with turns and jumps. Then I stepped onto a land board while flying a 10 meter Slingshot Rally in 17-20 mph.
At first my experience was focused at the South Flats, and there I stayed for a half an hour until I was amble to control, turn, and stop the land board. I felt a bigger rush from being on land instead of water. The consequence of falling is greater over land, but that is more motivating than anything else. Within no time the land experience felt comfortable enough to try jumping, and so I hopped over a few trash barrels, staying low to the ground for safety. Once I felt closed in by the 20 open acres at the South flats I decided to explore.
I turn toward the North, and discover paths zig-zag through the is;lands of grass and low sunken tidal pools. So i embark on the down-winder from the south flats. I can stop, tack upwind, and explore the entire shoreline from the water up to the road. The Land top speed is just as fast as water so the high speed skid turns through the maze feels like racing a go cart through a high speed course on the beach. But there are no bumpers, walls, paved sections, or other go carts bumping into you, and its free.
Free to go as far North as I wanted, with my phone on me I could call for a vehicle to pick me up at the end of the road 17 miles from where I started. But I figured it best to not venture past the race-flats and then tack upwind back to my car.
I ended up with a two hour session that took me downwind 4 miles and back upwind. I stayed dry, the power was perfect. I explored the passage ways and the mangroves and found birds nesting, land crabs migrating in mass numbers, coyote, rabbit, dog, possum, and other unidentifiable tracks in the dried mud and sand. I raced through flocks of plovers, seagulls, cranes and pelicans that were basking by the shoreline. Different flowers and grasses in bloom. All together it was a wonderful natural experience, and a heck of a rush, at a high speed. I landed my kite with a smile on my face and a new piece of equipment for my quiver. I love to Kiteboard, but i think I will find myself land boarding on those particularly cool water days.
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Land boarding has grown, in recent years, to understand how a large inflatable kite makes just about every activity one hundred times greater. singles holidays
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