Wind for kiteboarding is all about two things: speed and direction. Today let’s talk about direction. All summer long the wind blows from the north, northeast, or east. The trees around town all have that permanent lean towards the valley. So if your kiting on Maui during the summer, 99% of the time you will find yourself on the North Shore. Winter storms change everything. As storms come and go the wind tends to clock around the island allowing us a chance to kite different spots where you couldn’t typically find wind. Or you can kite your everyday spot with a whole new feel due to the differing wind orientation. To be honest many times this does not do me any good for teaching lessons, but for the competent kiter it sure can make for a bunch of fun sessions. We had a couple days of North-west wind days at Kanaha Kitebeach. Pretty fun wave riding sessions when this happens especially for the goofy footers because they finally get a chance to attack a wave frontside. Kitebeach Keihi was insanely crowded during the couple Kona wind days. In Hawaii we call Southern winds Kona winds because we always describe winds where they are coming from not going to. In this case, Kona, one of the major towns on our neighboring island to the south, the Big Island. I have never seen so many people at that beach before. Seems like every kiter on the island showed up at that spot to go play. The following day was no different so I fled to a secret spot :). Secret means I’m not telling. Me and some of my friends got to kite nearly everyday last week to the point we needed a day off of kiting. Which led to a pingpong day. Enjoy disecting the champ Ricky Boy’s game with this short slow-mo clip. Aloha and can’t wait to see you on the North Shore.