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I have played around with kites, on-and-off, for quite a few years, but a couple of years ago, I decided to get a little more 'serious' about kite flying.

The attached photos are of me with one of my kites: as you can see from these shots, sport kites can be a bit of a hand full.

This kite is 2.4 m wide and made of the same materials as a parachute. In mildly windy weather, it pulls like a freight train and can easily lift me off the ground. This kite is not quite as big as the ones used for kite surfing but it is a lot of fun! I also have a smaller 1.8 m 'training kite'.

The kite in these photos came from Hold The Line Kites in Perth, Western Australia.

I even built a "kite buggy" (with the help of my son-in-law) but that wasn't one of my most successful ventures.... it turned out to be a lot harder than I thought... but who knows, I might get the hang of it one day?

If you've taken a look around on this website, you'll already know that some of my 'bigger' interests already have their own dedicated pages. Things like family, motorcycles. bikes and photography deserve their own space but I do have a few other interests that I can mention here.

The items under this heading include things like Xbox 360 & Xbox Live: I enjoy playing Forza Motorsports 2, Ghost Rhecon (GRAW2) and Call of Duty 4 (COD4) at the moment.

Another interest I have is Kite flying... no not those cute little paper 'diamonds' with a tail... but 'real kites'... Sporting & stunt Kites: The kind that can pick my 100kg+ frame up off the ground! see pictures.

I'm sure there are other things I could add here but I can't think of any right now.