I'm a power kiter
It's a form of extreme sport. More on it here. Specifically I'm a buggy jumper - it's the most dangerous form of the sport.

(For the impatient - I strap myself into a metal buggy weighing about 20kg then use a huge kite attached to a harness to propel myself into the air and along the ground at speed. Cock up in midair above about 4ft and you'll break bones. No discussion. Pretty much no safety equipment either).

To put it simply, I am very good at what I do. I should be - I've been at it for five years. I help to put on displays all over the South of England, I'm beyond the necessary standard to qualify as an instructor, and the only reason I haven't yet done so is the fact that I only recently bought a car, and the course I want to do only runs every six months and is 300 miles away from me.

While on holiday with my parents this summer, they refused to let me stay on at the beach (in my own car) with about a hundred other people around - because they didn't want me to be flying "On my own".



(Incidentally, if any Edinburgh b3tans were at Portabello beach yesterday afternoon and saw someone with an enormous blue and red kite jumping over the groynes - that was me)
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 10:53, 7 replies)

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I saw someone with an enormous red groyne jumping all over Brighton Beach, if that counts.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 11:00, closed)

Beat me to it
You git.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 11:23, closed)

I think I saw you at portabello
Very impressive stuff mate! I was the unfeasibly tall bastard in shorts laughing at my foreign flatmates becoming acquainted with the main reason I don't swim in Scottish seas - they're fucking ludicrously, bollock-shrivellingly cold.
(DarkLite swallowed my entire undercarriage, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:50, closed)

Yeah
I remember that. I wondered how long it'd take them to find that out...
( MatJ LOOK, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 17:04, closed)

Yay for Porty!
And did you have a fine pint in the Espy after perhaps?
( calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 14:07, closed)

Pfffft
You land boys and your "danger"

Add drowning into the equation when you land wrong into a wave then you've got a proper sport ;)

Give me a tinkle if you are ever in the south and I'll drag my buggy out.
(Speshal, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 2:42, closed)

Water doesn't hurt
(Much)
( MatJ LOOK, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 18:10, closed)