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Extreme Kites Labour Day Explorers' Weekend Friday March 8th - Monday March 11th Land kiters for two decades have been kiting Waratah Bay, kicking off from the Sandy Point foreshore. This time we're looking at exploring the East side of Shallow Inlet, launching from the Boat Ramp and traversing the east side in to Wilsons Promontory. Having never done this before, anyone joining us is advised to be equipped for all terrain with either Big Foots or MidiXL's. Alternatively having a ski-rope in case you need to pull through some soft patches if on Barrows or Midis may also be a workable option. Route Planned Tides Late afternoon/evening tides, with daylight savings still running we'll be able to kite well in to the evening. Accommodation Options Shallow Inlet Campground - $20/night (Unpowered Sites) Shallow Inlet Caravan Park - $40-$126/night (Unpowered Sites, Powered Sites and Cabins) Wilsons Prom Holiday Park - $65-$315/night (Unpowered Sites, Powered Sites and Cabins) Sandy Point Caravan Park - $55 - $65/night (Unpowered Sites, Powered Sites)

Get in to Kite Buggying TODAY with these Package Deals! Peter Lynn MK1 Kite Buggy + Nasa Star3 2.5M Complete $495 Peter Lynn MK1 Kite Buggy + Nasa Star3 4.0M Complete $545 Kite Buggying is fun, but it can also be expensive to get in to or opportunity to grab gear limited. Here's a perfect starter's package for someone looking in to getting in to buggying on the cheap. The package includes an excellent condition Peter Lynn MK1 Kite Buggy and a brand new Nasa Star3 Kite complete with bar and wrist strap. Progressive Options Once you've gained confidence and control you can attach the Harness Loop to the Bar and hook right in with a harness. You've got the bar and line setup already, adding additional kite sizes to your quiver is affordable. Interested in purchasing? Send me a PM or email to Joel@ExtremeKites.Com.Au

Extreme Kites over the past month has had an enormous influx of content, the challenge now is to make that content discoverable through different parts of the website. To meet that challenge many hands make light work, and I would like to thank @bakersdozen, @andy666, @Mfwetu and @igeighty for stepping up to help. The first step is for us to work through the 1600+ reviews that now exist on the website and apply the relevant tags and filters so that the reviews can be easily discovered and displayed alongside relevant content. This is a manual process now that each and every individual review is filtered, tagged and saved. The second step is going on a discovery mission and finding reviews in the Forum and moving them to the Reviews section. This is a little trickier but in the end will help centralise all reviews in one location. This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint and I would like to thank the people above for volunteering to help out.

Take the challenge, join the elite survivors.... New competition, if you live to tell the story you get a fancy little badge under your name, a free XK Lanyard + XK Sticker The game is simple, fly the Peter Lynn Waterfoil and if you survive you nominate the next person to fly the kite A) Accept the challenge Fly the kite, nominate the next person. or.... B ) Refuse the challenge You may choose your fate... 1: Have your avatar changed for 30 days by the person who nominated you. 2: Have your quip (words under your avatar) for 30 days changed by the person who nominated you. 3: Lose 100 posts off your total. Small Print... The kite will be setup for handles, however a bar is also optional. You can hand it to the person you nominate the next time you meet them, you can mail it to whomever you nominate if you choose. Whom you nominate, how close or how far they are is completely up to you Large Print... I nominate @igeighty More Waterfoil photos by Adrian DeGroot

The new season down under is upon us, so it's time to upgrade the website and launch a new section Today I've done the basic upgrade, there's a few areas to fix and polish then I'll be launching a new section which will keep you hooked for hours There will be some errors and issues, they can be submitted here: http://www.extremekites.com.au/bugs/

Store update, new Winter Hoodies available in Lightweight, Premium Weight, Mens, Womens and Unisex have been added. Link: http://shop.spreadshirt.com.au/xknews/

Well it has been a while since Extreme Kites had T-Shirts available! So without further adieu feel free to pickup a great looking T-Shirt for yourself here ( http://shop.spreadshirt.com.au/xknews/ ) Shipping is Global! Ordering from Spreadshirt Link: http://shop.spreadshirt.com.au/xknews/ When ordering from Spreadshirt you can choose the colours we've selected for you, or alternatively you can look at all the different garment colours and choose one that you prefer. Spreadshirt handles all payments, prints and dispatches the T-Shirts generally within 48 to 72 hours of placing your order. Here's a few of our Community Members wearing the last set of samples, starting with @jhn.holgate, my wife @Melissa and then @The Duke

They've taunted us, @plummet has waived it at us! Time to break 20+ years of tradition of watching, lets jump the ditch and get over there! Link: http://www.extremekites.com.au/calendar/event/21-the-moose-meet-2016/ Accommodation, Flight & Equipment Freight Details I'll be updating both this and the calendar event as we go in an effort to make this as easy as possible for those interested in coming along. Wondering what The Moose is like? Here's 20 minutes of Land Kiting bliss... @gannet @plummet dates? @Chook @jhn.holgate @roblukin @nigel trip over the ditch? @SoutherlyBuster you're a kiwi now...

GT-Race Group Buy #3 Welcome to the GT-Race Group Buy #3, if you're interested in a GT-Race Kite Buggy or Accessories now is the time to get in contact and be part of the group buy. Group Buy Rules Lead Time (Time from order to landing in Australia): Up to 6 Weeks. Orders open until Monday February 13th. All payments are made direct to GT-Race Netherlands, via Paypal or International EFT/Forex. 75% payment must be cleared by Monday February 20th. 25% payment must be cleared within 7 days of final email confirming shipping and charges. 2017 looks to be another year of more GT's hitting Australian beaches, these are by far the best production kite buggies available on the market today with a range of customisations and options available. Head over to the GT-Race website ( http://www.gt-race.nl ) to take a more detailed look. Interested? Send me an IM here on XK and we'll get you included in the group discussion

Over the past year Extreme Kites has grown considerably, for the first time in a long time Land Kiting especially in Australia has started to see a small resurgence and growth. The aim of Extreme Kites is to give kiters a place online to share their knowledge, experience and socialise online which we hope in turn leads to people building friendships. We've found the more people we reach via the website and welcome in to our community the more these individuals become our friends and meet us on a beach. Last year I completely changed platforms for the website to set ourselves up to be able to grow the community, this resulted in John Holgate taking over as Community Administrator which has given me free time to focus on site development in my spare time, the results have been incredibly positive. With the new website and amazing contributions from our community members we've arrested the overall decline in kiting numbers in many of our groups simply through a growth of interest. We now have some more plans in the pipeline, some new features that I have been working on over the past six months which we hope will create a larger knowledge pool, a more valuable resource and a continued growth of interest leading to more friends with kites flying with us. Up until this point the costs of hosting Extreme Kites, Software Licensing, Prizes and Giveaways (with exception to the first competition) have all been funded from my pocket. This area of our costs over the next few years I can't really see changing, however to implement the new features planned now requires Extreme Kites to commit to spending money on a monthly basis. It's not a huge amount of money, however it is a considerable monthly amount and my plan has always been to see Extreme Kites sustain itself so that if ever in the future I completely move on the current group of Administrators at that time can continue to operate a self-sustainable website. The finance needed to bring these new features to life and sustain the viability of funding those features is a step in this direction. These changes aren't about to deface the website and turn the whole place in to a flashing disco of distractions I'll be placing advertising in the right sidebar, and three sections in the main body of the website. Unlike some websites charging upwards of $550 to $750 a banner, we'll be pricing them at $49/month. The banners will be small in filesize so we don't slow down general page loads. For those vehemently against seeing banners we'll offer a membership level for a couple of dollars a month that strips the advertisements, or alternatively just use a free adblocker (which many do already). If you're a Store Owner, Manufacturer or someone looking to advertise you can purchase a banner location, upload your artwork and publish it all through our Webstore located here.

Facebook and Twitter are two of the internet's juggernauts, chances are you probably already have an account with one of them. We've made using your existing Facebook or Twitter account to login to Extreme Kites as simple as 1 click! New Users Click Here and choose Facebook or Twitter. Existing User read below to enable Facebook and Twitter logins with your account! New Users Click Here to Login or use the Login Link at the top of the page, then click on either Facebook or Twitter. That's it you're done and now you have a new account on Extreme Kites. You can login anytime in the future just by clicking Facebook or Twitter on the Login Screen. Existing Users If you're already a Member of Extreme Kites then it's just as easy to enable Facebook or Twitter login. Either browse to your Account Settings or use one of the links below. Click Here to add Facebook. Click Here to add Twitter. Once you've selected either Facebook or Twitter from the above links now just click the Login Bar, and that's it! Advanced Options You can choose to sync your Status Feed, Profile Picture and Cover Photo direct from Facebook or Twitter with the advanced options. When you update your Profile Picture or Cover Photo on Facebook or Twitter it will update your profile here on Extreme Kites as well.

Extreme Kites has a new Community Calendar. The default view is no longer a conventional calendar, it will display an "Event Stream" of upcoming events. If you know of a local event or your local club is having their monthly fly be sure to add it to our Calendar. It's also a great place to keep track of Extreme Kites Events and able to RSVP with a quick click. You can view the whole Calendar here: http://www.extremekites.com.au/index.php?/calendar/ Or by pasting a link to an individual Calendar Event you can embed it in any Forum Post.

Welcome to the new Extreme Kites Team Blog, by now you would of noticed a significant change in the new Website. We hope you're enjoying these improvements, however along the way we expect that some issues will arise and we'll do our best to address those Technical Issues. You can help us improve the experience here by reporting Website Issues to our Bug Tracker so we can look at them and attempt to resolve them. To submit a you can either use the + Create link at the top of the page, or visit the Bug Tracker Web Page and press "Add New Bug."