Front Blind Mobe in Langebaan. Thanks chris for standing in the water all session and not kitesurfing yourself so I could kite the whole time. More Tricks each Monday Of Feb.
The time of Human Eco Travel is upon us. It has become socially frowned upon to take the small trip to town using a fossil fuelled vehicle, and within our lifetimes it won’t just be the short trip looked down upon, it will be any trip.
The Wheel was one of the first ‘great’ inventions of man thought up an inconceivable 5200 years ago. Green uses of the wheel (horse and cart etc) were to fade out as the human obsession to do everything ‘Faster’ and ‘Quicker’ developed. “2 steps forward one step back”, could best describe the Human behaviour as we learn from our mistakes. Now in the 20th century we see Eco Car’s on the horizon and in general a change of attitude towards our environment. Whilst it might be hard to control the ‘speed’ of which we feel we need to do things (travel, communicate, work, live) it is a certainty that the way in which we do them is becoming more and more important.
The Netherlands often known as “The Wheel Deal” boasts one of the best attitudes towards Eco travellers. Windmachine’s Chris and Lew recently made a trip to Den Haag and were blown away by the smooth pave’s and rights of way over cars.
The long awaited “The Man That Touched The Sky” starring Windmachine’s Lewis Crathern was unveiled last month and is available to download via the Breathe Unity Network. Also featured in this month’s Kiteworld and episode of “The Kiteshow”. “It’s not just about Piers!” says Lewis kean to push the eco values of the Film. “When John Vinicombe approached me with a film idea I just assumed that nothing would come of it like most film ideas. It became a reality, I’m happy about it, Yeah Real Happy.”
