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[*] posted on 3-20-2014 at 10:44 PM
losing an edge on the ice


we had a surface melt and was hoping for softer ice but temperatures dropped with higher gusty winds and the ice was harder and a bit rough. I ran over to the small lake near my house for a late day session and one of the first little runs caught a gust and started to speed up then just lost my edges and went for a nice little ass slide on the ice - good thing it wan't any rougher (the slide lasts from 0:12 to 0:26)




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[*] posted on 3-21-2014 at 04:59 AM


I've gotten in the habit of putting on my hip/butt pad shorts (I think they are for baseball players), my bony hips and arse dont like banging across the ice. My highest recorded butt scud is 20mph.



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[*] posted on 3-21-2014 at 05:31 AM


I was wearing thinner pants too instead of the lined snowboard pants - I'm feeling it this morning, yup that's a nice ice rash. But still not as bad as Scott has done.




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WindSpeed kites & design - Canada
Peter Lynn Arcs: Charger2 22.5 +18 + 15 + 6.5, Charger I 6, Scorpion 16 + 10, Phantom II 12 + 9, Orig Phantom 9 + 6, Synergy 10 + 8, F 1200, S 840
Ocean Rodeo: Flite 17 + 12, Rise 13 + 10 + 7, Razor 9 + 6
Foils: PL Leopards and Lynx, Airea Raptors, some PL Reactor IIs + IIIs, Libre Spirits, Cross Kite Sonics, Ozone Flow
Peter Lynn Kite Cat for cruising the lakes
buggies: PL XR+, Cameleon Pagona, custom bigfoot, PL Bigfoot, custom ice buggy
Boards: 2 custom directionals, O.R Surf series 6-3 and 5-11, Mako Duke, Mako Skinny, Mako 140 Wide, Mako 150 Wide, Mako King, Brunotti
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[*] posted on 3-21-2014 at 04:37 PM


We have similiar ice conditions at the moment. Knee pads and crash shorts are def in the arsenal for the real hard stuff:thumbup:



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