Steven S. Ross

Ok, this is directed at a fan, well 3 comments to my dribble, I consider that a fan, hah! Anyway, Diane posed the question in response to my kitesurfing experience: “Where do you get the time?” So I thought heavily about the question (really I didn’t, I immediately knew the answer). The answer is simple, I consider my free time more valuable than anything else and one day while I was working on-site in Cleveland, OH I was telling someone about kiteboarding. Then it just struck me, why haven’t I taken lessons? It was something that I wanted to try the first time I saw it and I just let it fester in the back of my mind. So I did it, I made a call and scheduled a lesson, end of story.

So the long and short of it is that I just figured that at the end of my life I don’t want to say “I wish I had tried that” so I don’t, I just try it and man am I ever glad that I did. Well there is one drawback, kiteboarding is like crack apparently and I am hooked!

So here is an update from my kiteboarding experience: I can now jump, do back rolls (sort of an off axis flip/360) and this cool thing called a railey. Ok, now when I say jump I really mean fly, because a jump is probably a few feet off the water and with the kite attached to you on a windy day (like yesterday) my “jumps” were 20-30 feet off the water.

I’m also on twitter now so give me a follow if you want. Adios!