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I started 2006 by having some time off and going down to wellington... to both see my brother and also to do some kitesurfing.  had a great time in welly.  On my return it was apparent that i was missed bigtime at maccas... at this stage i was probably at my peak at maccas.... kiting was going great and so was work... so at this point of time there was no way i was gonna switch to post.... of course contrast this with July of 2008 which was my lowest point at maccas and of course i had got frustrated with kitesurfing. got some new gear in 2006 and some young guys were getting inot the sport... started in 2005... pushed further in 2006 these guys would be the top kiters by the end of the year... and with it things got tense between us.  This of course was one of the things that eventually would kill off kiting for me (at least temporarily) but initially it only made me keener to nail the new moves and get some credability back (which i never did).  Another factor th...

2005 was a year of transition for me.  At 29 years of age this was the year that i finally left home.  Other than that it was a year spent mostly kitesurfing and working at maccas. At the start of the year i was promoted to fulltime maintenence at maccas.  To start with i was working under someone.... but when he left in the middle of the year i was basically in charge and thats when things finally got really good at maccas.  Under new management and ownership things were allready brilliant there and me and Amon got on really well.  With my kitesurfing going well and my job going well there was no way i was heading to nzpost anytime soon.  Things were sweet.  However the big move was in the back of my mind... it was gonna happen this year. I was still a kitesurfing addict and yet to meet any of my recent group of friends.  The only "muskateers" i had met at this stage were Calvin and Bex.  It would be another year before i would run into ...

The desire to kite kite kite was right there... i kited the first 3 days in marginal conditions... however on the morning of the 4th day i convulsed in my sleep and popped out my right shoulder.  in severe pain i managed to put it back in with my family lookin on.  However i was now out of action for quite a while.  This meant i had heaps of time to spare and plenty of kiteforums to chat on. In 2003 i started making a nuisance on kiteforum.co.nz but nothing major happened.  This year however i would get offside with most of akls kiters.  And kiteforum.co.nz was the way it happened. I was banned from that site at the end of Jan and then had big arguments with Tim and his mate Lance on Tim's kiteforum as a result.  Tim was in Scotland, Lance was in Perth.  I had got quite territorial about NZ and took Lance's comments about akl wind as quite offensive.  Everyone chose to hate me as allways and they sided with Lance.  This immediately got me...