FRIENDS - Tim Friedel

I've been friends with Tim since 1992. Me met at church and he found out i was keen on RC car racing... (that was what i did back then). I never thought for a minute that we would still be gr8 mates 17 years later haha.... but its happened. it certainly wasn't allways like that... for 3 months in 1995 we didn't speak to each other cos of "minor religious matters"... thats all i'll say haha but basically i was being a real idiot... as i did back then.

l8r on that year Tim left the church and in 1996 got into surfing. He of course got me into it... well tried to but i wasn't able to handle myself in the waves and prefered going either by myself or with Alan. Tim is extremely confident and assertive and whilst i never really liked going surfing with him (we was way too out of my league in da waves otherwise i would i would have loved surfing with him) he did start the ball rolling for me in watersports.... surfing, then bodyboarding... windsurfing and then eventually kitesurfing... which is my main sport today. in 2001 we got into kitesurfing and he was my main kiting mate until early 2006 when he decided to concentrate on his surfing due to a back problem.

we don't hang out a huge amount... which is prob the reason why we have friends for so long... a saying in kitesurfing "distance is your friend" seems to hold true with friends sometimes

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