Sherman and the Jet Skis
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 11:37 am
Finally made it up to Sherman this season for an epic weekend of kiting!! Saturday afternoon was amazing as well as Sunday's dawn patrol...
The jet ski madness on the other hand was unreal, I've heard about this shit... A group of delta locals had parked their boat on the upper island and were terrorizing the kiters on their skis. It was a father son combo, the kid must of only been 13 years old and the two of them decided they were going to hold their ground and play chicken with the kiters. The face on the kid was pure aggression, egged on by his "adult" father they continued to dangerously aim their skis and drive head on with us every single tack. After three or four tacks it became obvious that this was 100% intentional and they even seemed to have little meeting to decide who to go after etc... I was slightly distracted by their big fake breasted mother on the beach when my buddy told me one of them was inches from clipping me from behind.
I admit I dipped my kite at them as two of them aimed directly at me and I didn't raise my lines forcing them to bear off their tack... They did seem to understand that they were going to get fucked up if they hit the lines. This made the problem way worse, they were all over me for a few tacks and were hunting me down... however they wouldn't follow me into the seaweed... intelligent rednecks. I'm not proud of that but I'm also a fighter when it comes to shit like this.
Anyways sorry for anyone who has to deal with that shit, ridiculous. Also I know I shouldn't of egged them on but it is what it is.
The jet ski madness on the other hand was unreal, I've heard about this shit... A group of delta locals had parked their boat on the upper island and were terrorizing the kiters on their skis. It was a father son combo, the kid must of only been 13 years old and the two of them decided they were going to hold their ground and play chicken with the kiters. The face on the kid was pure aggression, egged on by his "adult" father they continued to dangerously aim their skis and drive head on with us every single tack. After three or four tacks it became obvious that this was 100% intentional and they even seemed to have little meeting to decide who to go after etc... I was slightly distracted by their big fake breasted mother on the beach when my buddy told me one of them was inches from clipping me from behind.
I admit I dipped my kite at them as two of them aimed directly at me and I didn't raise my lines forcing them to bear off their tack... They did seem to understand that they were going to get fucked up if they hit the lines. This made the problem way worse, they were all over me for a few tacks and were hunting me down... however they wouldn't follow me into the seaweed... intelligent rednecks. I'm not proud of that but I'm also a fighter when it comes to shit like this.
Anyways sorry for anyone who has to deal with that shit, ridiculous. Also I know I shouldn't of egged them on but it is what it is.