Can you remember the first time you got a kite in your hands? What was it and how did it go?!
Totally! I was staying on Namotu Island in Fiji. Brett Lickle, Pete Cabrinha, Mike Waltze, Rush Randle, Dave Kalama and all their strapped crew were coming to the island each winter (their summer in Maui) to train for all the watersports they were doing, including kiting. Brett had a 5m Wipika Classic and he started teaching me how to fly it on the beach. He said if I could fly it with my eyes closed so I knew where the kite was just from the feel, he’d let me try in the water. I flew the kite on the beach every afternoon until I got it dialed and then the guys got me in the water on an old, strapped surfboard. I would leave the beach going in one direction as far as I could go, and then a boat would come and pick me up and take me back to the beach and I’d do
