Kitesurfing trip to Tokushima

Here I am at a riverside beautiful area at Yoshino...the longest and the largest river in Shikoku-island in Japan. I've found a couple of nice spots to fly my kite-wings, and today shall be the first day to put my plan into reality. There are two spots named A and B, and here is A I decided for the first trial.

Today's weather forcast of mine was a bit subtle, the eastern wind might come from the river bank or not. But even if the wind condition should not be preferable, I would just go on my way back home toward west on the causeway.

Last night I was thinking "It should be a good idea to consider around that energetic and rather a siritual feeling which I'd examined on the seashore watching nice shoulder-high waves and surfings.

Got up at 6:30 in the early morning. Hot sunbeam shines while it's the midth of Japanese rainy season "Tuyu". Soft river-down wind is blowing which changed its direction to opposite side at about 9:30, which means the river-up ideal wind should be coming up more and more.

Until noon, I spent some hours to observe the area carefully, just like when I was prepairing in the world of aviation. The setup space is so small and continuous traffic was there on a road along the riverbank.

This is not a sand beach but a grass land which would help the kite launching and landing with the "Wind Gradient Effect". Which riverbank side, the river side or the causeway side should I choose? Water-launching could be other choice. What should I do when the wind gets up too strong? What if encounter the equipment-trouble in the middle of the river? How the running of the water...etc.
When I try new things at new areas, a kind of my familier "funny nonsense way" is usually gone away.

Consequently, the right side wind went up to 7m/s which brought me very comfortable two hours in the afternoon.
3 GoPro videos are uploaded to YouTube. Hope you enjoy them.

Setup space looks like this. Could be a nice area for experienced kiteboaders, I suppose.

Cold enough

Today will be the coldest day throughout this year. The temperature has risen up to less than 3 degrees csentigrade is quite rare around this local city of Matsuyama in southern Japan.

In English

From today on, I starts my blog in humble English.

As being a Japanese made in Japan, English is not my mother tongue, which means, it will surely be quite dificult to express what in my mind or out of my mind to my content level.

Anyway, it should be quite an interesting trial to spare sometime of a day to use other language than too familier one, and which should also be a good help soften my hard-inclining brain a little or more.

Breath of Heaven

Kitesurfing trip to Tokushima

Cold enough

In English