Kitepix Magazine No.6 April - June 2015 | Page 180

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I tried a
different angle of
attack and just
focused on going
higher with my kite
lower and trying to get
grabs in the tricks I
could already do.

I’m sat writing this
on flight EK423, God
knows how many feet
above sea level, flying
back from a short (for
me) season in Perth.
I try to escape every
English winter and
head to Perth for the
high temperatures and
perfect sea breeze that
comes on the daily.
Although this summer
in W.A was not as
consistent
condition
wise, the influx of
amazing riders from all
round the world made
up for it with some
massive names riding
in the pond this year.
These included: Aaron
Hadlow, Coleen Carroll,
Craig
Cunningham
and many more world
class riders. It was
really motivating riding
with guys like these
and it just makes you
want to go harder and
bigger, so even if I
wasn’t riding, I learnt
heaps from just sat
on the waters’ edge
watching them rip. I
wasn’t learning much
towards the start of

the season and hadn’t
landed a new trick for
the first three weeks I
was there which made
things very frustrating. I
tried a different angle of
attack and just focused
on going higher with my
kite lower and trying to
get grabs in the tricks I
could already do. Not
long after new tricks
started to fall into place.
It sounds ironic but
sometimes I find myself
trying too hard and just
getting frustrated, so a
massive lesson learnt
for me was not to worry
about seeing how may
new tricks I could learn
but working hard on the
ones I could already do
and making them look
good. It’s always hard
knowing your coming
back to the competition
season in the UK, so
everyone is trying to
get high scoring tricks
under their belt. Some
of my best sessions
were definitely the
ones where the main
focus was just to have
a laugh with the boys!