Hot links

Injury Prognostic Indicator- (How long are you probably going to be out of action for? What hurts?)

Windsurf Site - Current Weather WIND METERS, with second hand windsurfing and kiting gear

Alternative Wind meters - Site with different windmeters to the above Windsurf site, very useful

Weather maps - Predicting good surf is a fine art, here's a few links which I use ALL the time to get my waves/sessions

Weather maps 2 - atomosphere pressure charts

NZ Met service weather maps - 12/24/48/72 hour charts for weather

Wellington University Rain/wind forecast to +72 hours! - Excellent site. tells you when rain is coming, and wind, not much good having rain most of the time if theres wind, normally rain kills the wind!

Swell Forecast chart - SW - The most accurate way of working out when the surf is gonna pump or flop, ideal for those big Raglan missions ( accurate to about 6 hours if you are checking for the following day)

Surf Co NZ - Heaps of stuff about Pro surfers, videos, and insane pics

Kitesurf forum - Worldwide, very good discussion.

Kitesurfer.co.nz- Kitesurfing/boarding in New Zealand, useful newsgroup

Anabatic.co.nz - retail oriented NZ Kitesurfing site, pricing, forum, 2nd hand gear

XtremeBigAir,com Kitesurfing Equipment reviews - Useful tips, reviews and tests comparing kites

www.kitesurf.co.nz - ChristChurch Kiting shop

www.kitesports.co.nz - Tim Stockmans Kiteshop in Christchurch

www.kite-surf.com - News and user reviews of kitesurfing gear

Yahoo kitesurfing group - Latest equipment and news discussion from around the world

Kiteboarding Belgium - Latest news in the kiting industry

The Tuckster - My friend Mark and his nutty adventures + his Great site

WSP - Windsurf South Pacific - 75 Barrys Point Rd, Takapuna, Cabrinha/Naish etc Retailer

Peter Lynn Kites - World wide, NZ based kite manufacturer

Kiteworks - One of Auckland's best kite retailers

A Christchurch surfer - A really good site showing what the South Island (and a bit of North Island) has to offer in the way of surf, snow, and amazing scenery. Some great photos of Christchurch going off, and the best place for longboarding! (Sumner)

Underground Kiteboards - NZ Made custom kiteboards, gaining a international reputation for being at the forefront of design, export more boards than they sell in NZ!

www.mp3.com - The coolest site for getting new music, you can listen online, and then download songs. I just finished a compilation tape of mp3 songs (I don't have a CD burner)

Joe Cartoon site - Hilarious rough humour site, all in Flash. Must see! (Nothing to do with surfing but what the hey)

Terragen - A very cool 3d photorealistic landscape generator, follow this link for other fan sites about this program. There is also a contest for the best scenes. You can build complete videos of your 3d landscape. You need a fast PC! (I used a PIII 500 and that works well, but 800x600 images take around 12 mins..)

The 905 area bands (Ontario, Canada), heaps of good music seems to come from here..! Lots of links to bands pages and mp3s.

NZ Pulse Jet go Kart - A inventor in NZ has designed and tested a new form of propulsion. the Pulse jet.