100 Tacks & 100 Jibes Challenge

ALL, KITE

100 Tacks, followed by ten 360-degree turns, followed by 100 jibes. Most of my tacks were strap to strap to strap while wearing 8mm boots. I fell twice, and about 5 of my tacks were with a touchdown. Ten 360s in the row were flawless. My jibes were all without a touchdown, but I fell twice again. All jibes were strap to strap to in-front-of-a-back strap. I am not there yet for a strap to strap to strap jibes with boots. ☹️

A little disturbance in my track pattern that you can see after my 11th tack, was caused by an encounter with a Canadian Coast Guard vessel that we don’t see here all that often. I couldn’t let this opportunity pass by without checking them out. 😀

The wind was slowly dying on me during my exercise and a thunderstorm to the west was visibly approaching. I finished with less than 10kts. The first lightning warning showed up on my watch not more than 10 minutes after I had landed my kite. 😀 Well executed session, I’d say – no, actually, I just got lucky. It was lots of fun though! 1 hour and 40 minutes is the time to beat. I challenge you!

As Jason would summarize: 💪💪💪👌👌👌👍👍👍👻👻👻👊👊👊✌️✌️✌️😜😜😜


Landing my kite at my home spot, using the wind shadow as my usual “landing tool.”
Job done. Lots of fun. Thunderstorm clouds are looming behind my back, Toronto still in the clear.
The CCG vessel Limnos made a short technical stop just in front of my beach and so I played a bit 🙂

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