You’ve been kitesurfing for too long when:
- You mesure weather in meters (7m weather, 16m weather);
- Flapping flags make you horny (as well as moving windmills);
- You don’t need windmeter to tell what’s the wind speed and what’s the gust;
- Considering moving out of your country when there is no wind for more than two weeks;
- Always wondering how come setting up takes 5 min, packing up – half an hour;
- You’ve already spent more than a thousand on your gear and you can’t tell how much exactly – you’re too terrified to calculate properly;
- Predictive text on your phone defaults to “kite” and “kiting” rather than “live” and “living”;
- Your late by 3 hrs for your girlfriends dads birthday dinner because it was “howling”;
- You look at the weather sites and it says no wind, but you continually look just in case it changes;
- You don’t check forcasts till near the end of the week cos you know it’ll change;
- You find a small pile of sand outside your bedroom door and decide to leave it there becuase it reminds you of the beach;
- Your going camping and you pack your gear in to the car first and your Mrs gets in a strop because nothing else will fit in the car or the roof box;
- On a very “light wind” day, you arrive at the beach with your 12m and you’re setting up next to a guy rigging up a 16m kite you don’t think twice that your “Wow I wish I had a big one like yours” comment might be misunderstood!;
- Your nose turns into a tap when you least want it too;
- You get an invite to do something at the weekend and you check wind guru before you even look in your diary.
via Kitecrowd