Kitesoul Magazine #22 International Edition

It turns out that I had not even began to scratch the
surface of kiting in Indo the year before. Reo and Keahi
were tuned into kiting spots and conditions I thought
impossible the year before, and they were ripping these
spots to shreds. I had no choice but to attempt to join
them, humbling myself and also progressing my riding
in unfamiliar conditions. While Reo and Keahi have the
motivation to kite 5+ hours a day, Jason Wolcott was
the pulverizing force to push us to be out there all-day
long. Jason would simply tell us to get out there and
any resulting question from us would get the answer
“kiting isn’t my job, get out there”. The consistency of
conditions wasn’t any better than the years before, but
I was kiting 3 times as much with this crew. If the wind
was too light to ride we would body drag to get upwind,
if the waves were too small to get barreled we
would shoot airs over dry reef. It didn’t matter the conditions
we were always trying something. On that trip
I confirmed that the secret about kiting in Indo is: the
kiting is only world class for a couple of hours each trip,
so you better be on the water when it turns on.
Like the past 3 or 4 years, this year only provided a small
window of true Indo magic, at least the kind of conditions
you fly across the world for year after year; barrels.
That’s not to say we didn’t score plenty of fun conditions
for turns and airs, but it’s easy to have high expectations
of what you know can be possible there. On
this particular session, the sun was already beginning to