| The UK weather is nothing to ever rave about. | | | | along by a kite. What I didn't know is that the |
| 2008 has bought about some of the worst | | | | South of England at a place called, Goring is a |
| weather I think I have ever seen. When I thought | | | | world-wide hot spot for kiting. Many people kite |
| that last year was bad I had no idea that we | | | | down there including world champion, Aaron |
| would only receive about three days of nice | | | | Hadlow. I couldn't believe my luck! With the English |
| weather. What is going on? Are the affects of | | | | weather being so bad and windy it made perfect |
| global warming becoming a clear factor for the | | | | conditions for the sport. I loved it straight away! |
| weather here in the UK? That I don't know but | | | | The feeling of jumping so high on the water is |
| either way it was absolutely miserable here this | | | | un-explainable. If you were thinking about taking |
| summer. Average daily temperatures were | | | | up the sport there are plenty of resources and |
| generally 1 to 2 degrees above average in August | | | | forums which tell you where to go to get all the |
| this year which is pretty abysmal. I only got to go | | | | gear you will need. |
| away once this year and that just wasn't enough. | | | | Kite surfing itself is growing so fast. There are |
| Other than being completely miserable with the | | | | hundreds of people who are taking up the sport |
| weather here and writing articles on it ;-) I like | | | | every day. The industry is booming. If you live in |
| surfing. Surprisingly, the UK is not half bad for | | | | the UK you have perfect conditions to start |
| surfing. I travel down to the South of England a | | | | learning as it is so windy all the time! It is the |
| lot to go surfing with my friends and the waves | | | | easiest way to forget about the grim and |
| down there are perfect. So maybe this is one | | | | unforgiving British weather. I actually wake up in |
| good thing to come out of the horrible UK | | | | the morning hoping that the weather is windy so I |
| weather! As well as surfing I decided to get into | | | | can go out and kite! So there you have it a |
| kite surfing this year which is the same principle | | | | solution to the bad weather, take up kite surfing |
| as something like wakeboarding but you are pulled | | | | or surfing! |