First stripes done, with my dear yellow Rebel

Today it was pretty windy in Estonia. We got to the beach (named “Kloogaranna”) around 18:30, it was blowing 8-10+ m/s but a bit holey. Not perfect conditions for a noob like me. But in other hand.. we got my brand new Rebel together, got it up.. and I started bodydragging.. while doing this wind dropped a bit to around 7-8m/s. So I decided to give it a try to get on the board.. First it was a bit tricky to get feet into bindings, but when I got it, it went smooth and I made my 1st stripes (~200m longs) It made me go WOW! I was pretty amazed.

One thing I found out was how bad holey wind can be. Had my kite with total de-power over my head (12 a clock). Suddenly no wind a all, kite started coming down and lines lost their tension, surprise surprise wind came back.. a nice takeoff from the water, around 6-7m flight and landing balls facing the water - PRICELESS! atleast my kite didn’t fall down ;)

Conclusion, it was a very nice evening and big thanks to peeps who got me that far!