So you want to learn to snowkite? Here’s a list of must-haves to get you started: a kite, some skis or a snowboard, a generous expanse of smooth ice and a jumbo-size serving of courage.
Local snowkiting maven Rachael Miller insists the relatively new sport isn’t as terrifying as it looks, but it’s understandable if thoughts of getting swept out to sea on a violent tempest creep into a beginner’s mind. Miller wants to prove to you that anybody can snowkite, and if you don’t want to leave the ground, you don’t have to… More info
FLYING down the Murray River on a ski at 160kmh is second nature for Hamilton’s Mason Vaughan.
The 17-year-old apprentice builder is facing one of the ski racing calendar’s most gruelling events this weekend, the Southern 80.
This year’s race comes after a rigorous six-months on the water and in the gym for Vaughan where he has been building the leg strength needed to handle 125 turns between Torrumbarry and Echuca.
Today he and ski partner Rhys Duggan, of Ballarat, will race behind a Melbourne-owned boat called Spinal Tap in the single motor, open cockpit (SMOC) class, alongside 20 other boats…Â More info
People are bundled up to the hilt with layer after layer of warm clothes, and still some teeth are chattering. It’s certainly not the kind of weather when you want to be wet.
But a group of young people in Seffner can’t wait to hit the water.
They are international students at Mc Cormicks Cable, Wake and Ski School.
David Kazek says the worst weather here in Florida is nothing in comparison to what it’s like back home.
“Now in Poland, it’s about minus one or something,” said Kazek, right before a boat revved up and pulled him off the dock into the water…Â More info
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Prior to the release of the original Skate, there wasn’t really any variety in the skateboarding videogame genre. But Black Box’s new take on skating gave players a whole new way to play by delivering on a more realistic experience than other games in the genre. The only catch was that with this new game came some annoyances that many players just couldn’t seem to look past. There were technical bugs sprinkled about, the online had problems, and the most noticeable of Skate’s problems was that there were just too many tricks mapped to the right stick. And now with the release of Skate 2, Black Box tries to iron out all of the kinks riddling their first installment. But do they succeed?… More info
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