For a sport that heavily depends on one's personal capability & preference to doing things, it's very difficult to be specific on the guidelines. However there are certain profound techniques that can be adapted to ...
Why Balok? I Mean, Seriously!
Why Balok? I really love Balok, I love her like a baby, none of the these issues really matters to me. I get used & live with it. But let's look at a few issues ...
An Afternoon With George Warren
Despite not being a local, George Warren needs not to be introduced among the Malaysian windsurfers. Nicknamed K-21, George has ventured almost every coast and every channel in the Malaysia map starting from the 80's ...
Windsurfing Lesson: Foot Position
What is the big deal about foot position?
During my earliest attempts at windsurfing, I have made several mistakes that slow down my progress. One of it by not considering where I position my feet on ...
Good news for all Malaysian & Singaporean alike, a new kitesurfing shop called the Outer Quadrant has just been launched a few days ago. Outer Quadrant is the official distributor for Liquid Force brand and is based in Singapore. Parallel to its launching, Azhar, founder of Outer Quadrant paid a visit to Balok Beach to promote and launch the new line of products.
Currently Outer Quadrant is also doing a big promotion as stated on its website;
For every new fan of Outer Quadrant on Facebook that you introduce, you will be entitled to 1% discount of the actual price. If you managed to get 5 friends to be new fans of Outer Quadrant, you will get 5% discount and so on and so forth up to a maximum of 30 new fans for 30% discount.
So what are you waiting for? Check out their website outerquadrant.com!
Alright. Let’s face the fact. That thin dacron sleeve on your kite isn’t the best protection from any holes for the more fragile plastic tubes on the inside, called the bladder. Some day or later, you’ll be finding yourself looking through the catalogue or searching around for the best way to patch that imminent hole punched through the bladder. Added to the task is actually finding a nearby resource that provides inexpensive solution and located close enough to avoid unnecessary costly postage fee.
Our friend from Singapore, Ian, may have just the solution for you. continue reading...
Check out the boards. Totally different flavor than your ordinary freestyle board. Among other things, the board has super long fins, flat bottom and square tail profile for maximum performance especially in the upwind course. And since the boards are directional, don’t even dream of using them if you can’t tack/jibe! As far as we know, Malaysia is still not catching up with this one yet, but hopefully we’ll see more people adapting the board designs and riding skills into their kiteboarding arsenal in the near future.
So today it blows rather stronger than usual in Pantai Sepat. To not exaggerate, I can simply say it was easily 25 knots in the gust out there, if not more! I went out with my usual medium rig – 8.4m & 155l board, unaware of today’s forecast. The setup proved to be a hell of a ride, but at the same time it was a totally different feeling than riding a skinny slalom board with 7m sail. Downhauled the sail an extra inch then i was out again fully blasted yet very well controlled.
Driving to the beach from Kuantan town will take you barely 10 minutes. And since I’m residing halfway between the journey , a single ride to Balok would simply cost me one week worth of fuel, time & hassle to Pantai Sepat. This is the second time I am exclusively writing about this particular beach, and I realized I haven’t wrote enough to justify how amazing it is!
Now the beauty of the beach is, even with all of that strong winds and swells, launching is not even half as tricky as it would be in Balok under the same condition and wind direction. Its shallow seabed continue reading...
I was in Kuala Lumpur last weekend with my friends and after a last-minute arrangement with Joe from windsurfingkl.com we managed to visit our KL windsurfers in Pantai Remis. We met Joe in Damansara and from there he guided us all the way to Pantai Remis. The journey took about 40-45 minutes, which for someone like me whom blessed with the beach barely 5 minutes from the house, is quite heck of a ride for a windsurfing trip. All hail to pure magnifique passion for windsurfing! continue reading...
For a sport that heavily depends on one’s personal capability & preference to doing things, it’s very difficult to be specific on the guidelines. However there are certain profound techniques that can be adapted to improve your sailing. The tips laid down below are a few of the many essentials skills and tricks that have been long practiced by the professionals then passed down to others from time to time.
Kitesurfing or kiteboarding landed in Malaysia when it reaches its global popularity in the early 2000, and since then gave birth to many avid kitesurfers around Malaysia map. There are several places in Malaysia where kitesurfing is possible and Balok Beach in Kuantan, Pahang is ultimately the best of the best. Other places include Cherating, Tg Balau & Kota Kinabalu.
Now if you’re coming to Malaysia or specifically Balok Beach for kitesurfing here are all the little details that you need to know about.
Public transportation : Main form of public transportations are buses and cabs. From Kuala Lumpur, just take the bus from Pudu Raya or Titiwangsa (both can be reached on LRT) to Kuantan, then take the cab to Pantai Balok (Balok Beach). Same method for anywhere else around Malaysia (bus+cab), just make sure that you buy the bus ticket for Kuantan. continue reading...
Well it’s about time those geeks build something a little more useful, instead of all those crappy games and useless apps that seem to invade Apple AppStore lately.
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Check the wind from anywhere in the world with Wind Alert! Wind Alert feeds your need for wind information, no matter what wind driven activity you pursue: windsurfing, kiteboarding, kitesurfing, surfing, snowkiting, sailing, paragliding, fishing, kiting, kite flying, or any other sport where wind is critical.
Wind Alert is a free app that provides wind reports, forecasts and graphs fr… Read Moreom over 38,000 continue reading...
This is a long shot but:Im planning of driving from KL to Balok kite beach this weekendIf anyone out there also going on Sat 4 Sep I would be very keen to follow, so I dont get lost.Wind forecast looks grim but I want to scout it for future visits anyway.Cheers! AdamStatistics: Posted by adamo — Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:24 am […]
hey guys, this is the very 1st time i'm going to surf and i'm really look into it. JO if you organize the trip, i'm glad to join and to be one of your kakis. i'm from KL.Statistics: Posted by pringlesnng — Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:34 am […]
Just dapat a ripper of a storm, still stoked, woohoo. One minute we're all stoning away at the beach at PA, pointing at the horizon at every slightest sign of a cloud darkening, but mostly struggling to stay awake because of the heat and lack of wind. Next minute this one region of gloominess at SW suddenly deepened and started dropping heaps and heaps […]
Hi Dr Adam88,Yes you can reach us at info@oxbold.comIf you are based in KL, you are most welcome to join us on Sunday windsurfing session at Port Klang.Try out first then you can decide wat to buy.Cheers!Statistics: Posted by Oxbold — Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:21 am […]
Skimboard is pretty big in Penang. You should probably get in touch with Jet Shon. He's on FBStatistics: Posted by Syamil — Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:17 pm […]
Hi Adam, where are you located?Our friends from Oxbold may be able to offer some decent gear for you. They're based in KL.Please join our FB group so you can get in touch with them http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=204827040385Statistics: Posted by Syamil — Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:08 pm […]
Hi everyone. I'm starting lessons in windsurfing soon. Any used windsurfing board + gear for sale?..Statistics: Posted by dr_adam88 — Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:47 am […]
Alright. Let’s face the fact. That thin dacron sleeve on your kite isn’t the best protection from any holes for the more fragile plastic tubes on the inside, called the bladder. Some day or later, you’ll be finding yourself looking through the catalogue or searching around for the best way to patch that imminent hole punched through the bladder. Added to the task is actually finding a nearby resource that provides inexpensive solution and located close enough to avoid unnecessary costly postage fee.
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