Victory at Sea

We were lucky enough to catch this day. It seemed like the swell popped up overnight and it was a lot bigger than expected.

The biggest swells were breaking out past the pier. The inside looked pretty gnarly but it seemed once you made it past the inside you could skirt your way around the bigger swells as you made your way outside. The sketchiest part of the session was that I was using our brand new 6m Airush Lithium kite. I'm talking brand new. We were cutting the tags off the kite as we blew it up. I would've liked to had a trial run with it on a less consequential day but it was too epic to stay on the beach.

The bigger sets were massive. I stalled at the top of a few waves just to see how big they would get and the drops after took forever. I really had to concentrate. I had to tell myself to not do anything, don't look around, don't try to turn, just keep going straight because you're only halfway down this wave.

The wind was cranking. I was overpowered on the 6m. And what made it worse was that the pier was messing with the wind so you'd have a lull and then a massive gust that would want to rip the kite out of your hands. The kite did great though. I always knew where it was. It was blowing about 20 to 25 and I had it totally depowered. It's a powerful little kite. It's insane to think I probably could have been on the 4m.

Meagan snapped a few pics from the pier. She had told me on the beach that she was going to try to go out on it but while I was on the water I could never see her on the pier. I wish I had seen her and we might have been able to get more dramatic pics. Thank you Meagan from all of us. You always take such great pictures!

-Travis-