Sunday, November 29, 2009
Kite surfing 265miles around the Big Island Hawaii ~ Building own Kites
Goal: Kite surfing 265 miles all the way around the Big Island of Hawaii ~ Building my own kites
My typical Kitesurfing day in Paradise begins early. . . starting up the Island Mercedes and powering up and over over the summit of Beautiful Kilauea . . . the most active volcano on earth . . . along the slopes of the long Mountain of Mauna Loa . . . the largest mountain on the planet . . . past the wind farm at South Point . . . the southernmost point of the 50 united states and one of the windiest too . . . and up the Kona coast to my first stop at Puhi's coffee farm.
Puhi has Mylar coffee bags to be used for building my light wind Kona kite . . . which is going to pull me along most of the leeward coastline I've travelled and checked out all morning.
Puhi and I meet to work out together first. After a warm welcome from his dog Addicas, we loosen up with some football tosses and boxing. Next comes weight train and a timed workout of pull ups, push ups, clean and press and kettle swings. We stretch and cool down in the pool and Puhi presents me with a half case of Kona Coffee Mylar bags and asks how the Kite building is going.
Next stop is to wake our local Gentle Giant and Heavy weight Cage fighter Josh . . . known to us affectionately as the Wrecking Ball! Josh and I drive down to train at the Kailua Peer . . . the annual World Triathlon Championship Start/finish spot of the Kona Ironman and also the final chosen home of King Kamehameha the Great.
This morning we swim the refreshing ocean water to the first buoy and back . . . passing beautiful corral and reef fish and pound out some mitt combinations and repeat the again for the 2nd and 3rd buoy. We finish with a run along the Ironman route along Kailua Bay's Alii drive . . . the wind is picking up a little . . . what a beautiful place to train and Kite around the Island . . . to be continued . . .
My typical Kitesurfing day in Paradise begins early. . . starting up the Island Mercedes and powering up and over over the summit of Beautiful Kilauea . . . the most active volcano on earth . . . along the slopes of the long Mountain of Mauna Loa . . . the largest mountain on the planet . . . past the wind farm at South Point . . . the southernmost point of the 50 united states and one of the windiest too . . . and up the Kona coast to my first stop at Puhi's coffee farm.
Puhi has Mylar coffee bags to be used for building my light wind Kona kite . . . which is going to pull me along most of the leeward coastline I've travelled and checked out all morning.
Puhi and I meet to work out together first. After a warm welcome from his dog Addicas, we loosen up with some football tosses and boxing. Next comes weight train and a timed workout of pull ups, push ups, clean and press and kettle swings. We stretch and cool down in the pool and Puhi presents me with a half case of Kona Coffee Mylar bags and asks how the Kite building is going.
Next stop is to wake our local Gentle Giant and Heavy weight Cage fighter Josh . . . known to us affectionately as the Wrecking Ball! Josh and I drive down to train at the Kailua Peer . . . the annual World Triathlon Championship Start/finish spot of the Kona Ironman and also the final chosen home of King Kamehameha the Great.
This morning we swim the refreshing ocean water to the first buoy and back . . . passing beautiful corral and reef fish and pound out some mitt combinations and repeat the again for the 2nd and 3rd buoy. We finish with a run along the Ironman route along Kailua Bay's Alii drive . . . the wind is picking up a little . . . what a beautiful place to train and Kite around the Island . . . to be continued . . .
Labels: Kona Cofee Mylar Kites . . . Ironman training for Kona coast kiting
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