Archive for April, 2006

Kiteboarding is an expensive sport, especially when you suck.

Misha, Joseph, and I went to 3rd Ave. Beach in San Mateo today to try out the equipment we had bought two weeks earlier. Up to this point, we still hadn’t managed to propel ourselves through the water on our own gear. Misha and I had come close to hurting ourselves the week before, though only his kite suffered permanent damage.

“You’re so going to lose your board.” prophesied Joseph. And I did. My board is somewhere in the middle of the San Francisco Bay right now, slouching towards Alameda. To my credit, I did have a good three or four minutes at the beginning and managed to go upwind for a few blissful seconds. Soon after, I got going too fast, was dragged off of the board downwind, and never found it again. It turns out the Bay is quite large.

Next time, I think I’ll buy a used board and maybe a leash.