A (2:21)

What did that feel like when you got that kite up in the air, mate?

B (2:24)

When I. Well, first of all, I mean, I don't think you see it in the video, but I go up to Jeremy and I say, mate, we'll connect these lines. But you launching the cart and you feeling it first because he comes from a freestyle background. The minute he gave the cart onto me, I was like, holy. You know, the cart in the air looks. It was a seven, but it looks so big and it's just wanting to change shape the whole time. And when I first got that cart in the air, you know, I mean, we connected now all the cards up, but I should have backed up.

A (2:53)

I mean, let's take it back 30 hours. We got a message from you saying, hey, bro, you guys are Mykonos. Can I come stay?

B (3:00)

Yeah, yeah.

A (3:00)

You didn't think you were going to be doing this?

B (3:02)

No, definitely.

A (3:03)

You thought you were coming to the old portrait house for drink, beers in the, in the Jacuzzi and party with the boys.

B (3:08)

Exactly, exactly. You know, I was on the way to, to the north 20, 26 orbit shoot. And the fairies came to the. To the grounding halt because of the extent of the wind. And when I messaged you guys, obviously open arms come pulling. I really didn't think I had one bar and a set of bars, bodies in my, in my bag. No board, no harness, no kite. I really didn't think I was gonna get thrown into that madness, but I'm so stoked I did. When I first saw the cart, I was like, there's no ways. I remember there was like the backwards and forward. Should I go, Should I not go wait for it to drop? But it was dropping from 50 knots to 45 knots, you know, so it was still crazy.

A (3:48)

Let me, let me give you a little bit more perspective on that. I think Jet arrived the night before the boys went out and you went out. We wake up in the morning, you know, Jet's sleeping on the sun lounger. All's good. And it was already windy.

B (4:01)

No, it was hardly.

A (4:02)

It was, I mean, seriously windy. We got down there and Jet's like, yeah, man, I'm gonna wetsuit. I think I'm gonna go out. I'll borrow some gear, mate. He paced around from about 9 in the morning to about 4:30 in the afternoon before he said, the whole day. You're gonna do this or what? And you're like, yeah, no wetsuit. But I think that's, that's why the adrenaline dump was so huge, right? Because it had been the whole day build up, you know, not knowing when am I going to pull this off?

B (4:27)

Yeah. And I think that was the. Yeah, just like escalated to a point where I Couldn't sit around anymore, you know, that looking at something going, should I, shouldn't I? And then eventually I was like, it, let's go. You know. And it's also, you know, I think when you're at such a level in your kingdom, you always want your gear. You know, like, even when people tell me, hey, try my cart, I'm like, no, I like my, you know, my bar, my kite, my harness, my board. The only thing that was mine was the bar, you know, so that just added that extra bit of. Not that I didn't trust any of the gear, but it's just like a weird thing I've always had, you know, when I've started, since I started kiting that if it's not my gear, I don't really. Yeah, I'll ride it up and down, left and right, but I'm not going to go and send it. And this was like the total opposite of what I'm normally used to, you know.

A (5:17)

Crazy thing is when we pumped that kite up, mate, it held the air unbelievable. It was super tight. And I was like, I was like, this thing is like, I mean, okay. I mean it might have been an old kite, but the bladder was amazing.

B (5:29)

I couldn't believe the condition that that cart was in. You know, when you guys pulled. When I saw the bag, I was like a piece of. And then I felt the, the canopy as well and I was like, this is, I mean, still pretty crisp. I mean, it's not a 20, 26 cart, but it still felt pretty cool, you know, and pretty. Yeah, just obviously the shape was just totally different. You know, I'm used to those bow karts and now you've got the C shaped box you're staring at. And yeah, like I said in the video, there's no de power. You know, bar in, it's power, bar out, it's power. And I was just playing with that deep hour chord the whole time and that I've never had before, that I've never. If it's 50 knots that cuts powered, you know, an orbit or something, you can kind of dig in there. It just wants to pull you off. It's the whole time. The whole time.

A (6:20)

A lot of that comes from not having the bridle. Right. So did it not make a difference whether you had the bar in or out in those conditions in that string?

B (6:28)

Nothing, nothing, nothing. Obviously you get a little bit more power when you pulled in, but normally when you sheet a bar out, you can, you know, it's. There's no power, mate. They fully depowered bar sheeted out. This thing was pulling like a truck. Like you couldn't dig in, you couldn't dig in, you know. And that, yeah, that was just for me, like the biggest thing that I noticed was that there's no D power, you know, it's either on or it's on, you know. So, yeah, I think that was the brutal part as well as you couldn't between your jumps. There was no time to like relax and slowly ride.

A (7:06)

You were speaking later to Jeremy saying, if I could do it again, I wouldn't use tens, I'd write, I'd use 16 meter lines. What would the extra six meters give you? Do you think that would give you time to get that heli route, that, that safety loop or that heli loop? Right, because that seemed to be the thing that was tripping you up, right?

B (7:23)

100%. I think already on a high performance 5 strut kart, it's already difficult to downloop on 10 meter lounge. Now we're going a C shaped cart from 2016. It's almost near impossible. So I think that six, that extra six meters can give you the time to kind of, you know, move with the cart a bit and. But I think it's also just getting used to it. The down loop is something that I can't explain. You know, it's totally different to, to the kites that I'm used to, you know, with the, the carts that I'm used to. You can kind of play with the kata, but this is just so grunty and so aggressive that, yeah, there's not much time. Well, there's no time at all to, you know. But I think after a couple of sessions getting used to a C shaped kart, I think I could dial it in, which I'm pretty keen to do in the Cape Town season for sure.

A (8:17)

I mean, even at that, even on that fifth jump, you, you got so much higher. I mean, do that. That was, that was high as. Crazy high.

B (8:25)

Yeah, Decent heart. But even up there looking down, I was like, oh, you can really feel you way higher. And just the pull, I mean, we get pull on the norm. I keep going back to the normal couch, you know, cuz that's what we all used to and that's what everyone knows. But the pull is. When I crank that loop, it's something else. Like it feels like your insides are getting ripped out. You know, there just so much aggression. And you know, Jeremy and the boys told me, but it's only once you connect it to the Car. Do you really like? Okay. Holy. Like, this is something I've never felt before. Even just riding left and right, not even jumping. It's just you battling the car, you're fighting.

A (9:02)

I mean, it's kind of like, guys, you have to see this video. It's available on Portrait. But it's kind of funny even watching you start like, you know, like, normally I'm not. You just throw the board in the water. I just don't worry about the kite. But like, you put the board in the water like over here. Like, I mean, you were basically being dragged into the water.

B (9:19)

Yeah, yeah. I felt like a total beginner, you know, just even. Yeah, like I said, riding left and right, getting into the water was a mission. The session started like that. I was like, oh, this is going to be brutal. You know, if this is out starting, I can't imagine when I'm going to crank that loop in 50 knots, you.

A (9:35)

Know, that was it about the limit that you'd like to go out and do you think you go at and.

B (9:39)

More on that same cart? I reckon that was. Yeah, I reckon that was the limit. Hey, that was like. I. I think I'm saying that now because that was the first session, but I think maybe if I put a bit more work into trying the kite and getting dialed in, I could. No, it's okay. I could get into riding it a bit better. But at that point, the way I'm feeling now, that was like, I reckon too much, you know, for. But I think, yeah, I think give me a couple of sessions and I would like to take it out on like a strong Masa Day, you know, and see how. I don't know how it reacts.

A (10:16)

I mean, look, Mykonos is straight on shore as well. It makes a. You know, brings these other factors in, you know, maybe. Maybe at Maassa we got a little bit more down and less people. Might be a good shout.

B (10:26)

Yeah.

A (10:26)

When you think about Lewis jumping the Brighton pair and. And Reuben and Storm G's all on that same kite, obviously from years before, it's kind of crazy, right, mate?

B (10:37)

I literally now my whole body is full of goosebumps thinking that these guys were doing what they were doing on those carts. Like, I can't wrap my head around Lewis. It's not even about the loops. Like, put the loops aside, you know, forget how do you jump appear on a cart like that? I mean, it just doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense, you know, and then now you go to Reuben, who's doing S loops on that cartoon. You can't. But I suppose at the time you don't know any better, so you kind of make do with what you've got. But now, you know, like I said, I mean when we were in Mykonos talking. These days, anyone can, anyone can, can pull a cartoon, you know, anyone can jump on a cart and do a 2, 3 meter cart loop, you know, but give them this thing. Only your top riders, you know. And I think a lot of the fleet, the riders fleet would second guess even taking out this cart. And they're professionals, you know, So I think there would be a handful of us that would have, not necessarily the balls, but the, I don't know, mindset to even loop that cart. You know, back in the day, that's all you had.

A (11:48)

I mean, we had Jeremy and Lorenzo on the beach and on 10 meter lines. Those guys weren't interested to touch it at all. And I think, I think, I think we all sit at dinner that night. I said, there's only like maybe one or two people in the world who would have gone out in those conditions on that setup. And that's been honest.

B (12:02)

Yeah, I think Jason would be a really cool person to see on. On that card. I think Jason, if, yeah, if he can get his hands. I mean, I think he might have a C shaped card lying around there. But if he can get his hands on one of those and short lines, I think that would be something cool to see as well.

A (12:19)

I mean, you can hear in the video us yelling and saying, bro, come in, it's enough. And you're like, no, one more, one more. Cuz I know you wanted to get that big one right, but man, just so landings, every time, I was just waiting for that. You know, one of these, one of these, one of these landings is going to go horribly wrong. But I mean, the adrenaline that you have is infectious to all of us. Say you're coming back and everyone's on the beach just going, wow. By the way, nobody else is out kiting. There was nobody kiting. There's no one.

B (12:48)

No. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A (12:50)

Does this excite you to do more stuff like this? I mean, I don't want to say that, you know, you should push yourself further and further till, you know, you know, injury. But does that excite you to do more sort of radical stuff on different types of gear?

B (13:04)

100. That gave me like a. Yeah, like a fire to almost go back to the old days, you know, and really experience kiting, how they experienced it, you know. So, yeah, Just maybe trying boots. Maybe boots in a. You know, just to. Because I think. I don't think a lot of people realize what they were doing back in the day, you know, because we've all grown up now on these beautiful, safe kites, you know, and like I said, anyone can happily jump on a cart in Greece and the Caribbean. And so this has given me this, like, drive to go and try the stuff we're doing now on that gear, you know, to try and see where, you know, how far, oh, you can kind of push the limits on that old gear.

A (13:51)

I mean, I think you brought up a good point as well. Like, I mean, we're dramatizing the situation, but you are a professional kite border, and, you know, you're very good at this. This is not something. If your father's got an old fuel in the garage and you're. And you're a beginner or even intermediate or anyone, actually, unless you're a professional kite, you shouldn't be going out and trying to do this on ten lines. Let's.

B (14:12)

Let's.

A (14:12)

Let's get that out there. I think we need more safety in our sport, right?

B (14:15)

Yeah, for sure. I mean, even, I think, like you said, even a professional athlete, the top of the top of his peak. I don't think the kite is meant to be doing that type of stuff, you know, let alone the guy whose dad has one lying around in the garage, you know, because that I can comfortably say it was brutal. And it was. You know, I think if I'd have stayed out there extra 10, 15 minutes, it could have gone seriously wrong, you know, because of just the. I don't know, the shape of the car, the way it's designed is not meant to. We already pushed the gear so far that this is just like taking that extra step.

A (14:55)

Absolutely. Well, look, guys. New dog UltraX featuring Jet Bradshaw is out now in portrait. Definitely. Go check it out, man. I'll tell you what, it was insane. I just watched again. I've watched it twice in the last half an hour and put a smile on my face both times. It's crazy just to see the amount of adrenaline and energy that you come off the water with. I mean, that's just so awesome to see that you are pushed to your limit as well. But obviously, man, you know, don't try this at home, man. Please.

B (15:21)

No, don't. Please don't. Please don't. Please. For my sake, for everyone's sake, don't.

A (15:25)

All right, brother. Hey, we'll see you in a few weeks. In Cape Town, bro. We'll bring that fuel back with us, huh?

B (15:29)

100. Please bring it, please bring it, please bring it. Maybe a double lip on it.

A (15:40)

Well, that was awesome guys. Hearing from Jet, I have no idea what happened to the audio with Jet there. So if it is a little bit difficult to understand or listen to in the car, I'm sorry, just going to have to listen to it when you get to your home or office. Guys, Colin is sick today. He's tried to come on a few times, hence why the podcast coming out a little bit late but is unable to get going. So we're going to push on on Monday you will hear from a bunch of the winners from the Woo Worlds. You're going to hear how they won and how it impacted their teams because we had the big teams events and obvious the nations cup is the premier event in kite boarding at the moment. When it comes to Colin and me, my beloved Wu Tang Clan has beaten Colin and the Chipmunks. We got second in team Total height, we've got fourth and team total Distance. Amazing effort. Well, let's add those together. That's six points. Colin got a fifth in team total height and a fifth in team total distance for 10 points. So congratulations to both teams. Unbelievable efforts all around. We should have a cup. I'm going to call it the Portrait Cup. So right now the Wu Tang Clam hold the Portrait Cup. Maybe Colin and the Shipmarks can come back and try and win that next year. I think that's kind of cool to have a little competition within a competition. But the big winner this year, as I was saying before, is the nations cup which came down to the last weekend is kind of crazy. And it was all about the foilers and wingers, I have to say because going into that final weekend, I think New Zealand and South Africa were fourth and fifth in the world and just had massive, massive laughs weekends. Netherlands obviously won with a score of 272.7 meters. One thing that I didn't realize and I didn't, I sort of slipped up and I should have been better at this was the wing highest jump, men's and women's and total distance in one hour was all added in and that came down to sort of be the breaker in the end because a lot of teams neglected that. Let's look at the final results. After a crazy last weekend where I think New Zealand and South Africa jumped from fourth or fifth place into the podium. For the Kiwis it was basically let's get down to plimon the site where Hugo Wiggersworth bo broke the WOO record. They went back down there. Clark got another big jump, Hugo got a big jump. You know, Toby Wigglesworth backed them up with amazing foiling when you get here from Toby on Monday. And for the South African team it came down to the wingers for them and they got huge jumps backed up from the big scores at Cold Hawaii on the Monday. So yeah, crazy last weekend of action and. And that's what the Nations Cup's all about, obviously. First place from the Netherlands, 272.7 meters. Highest woman jump, Kim Shaka 20.1. Ingemar Werbman was the highest junior jump, 29.9. Highest senior jump, Ivo Van Verbunt, 23.1 meters Highest first place jump, Levi Smith 36.4. Highest second place jump, Jamie Overbeek, 36.1. Highest third place jump, Evan Klein 32.7. That pretty much sealed in the deal. But when they went to Wings, the woman's wing highest jump, DAF R only got a 1.4 meter. Victor Harlem Kites 4.3. The men's highest jump, women's distance 1 hour. Mariska Waldenberg 41.4 kilometers and the men's distance 1 hour. Matthias van Tiehoff 47.33. They didn't really change on that last week and obviously Levi, Jamie and Evan did the bulk of their scoring there in the middle. New Zealand, second place, huge weekend. Only 10.6 points off first. They got super close. Bex Rimmel 11.7. So a big difference in the woman's height there. Junior jump, Toby Wigglesworth 21.8. Again a huge distance behind first place. Clark Robinson was the high senior there, 28.1. Hugo Wigglesworth 29.5. Mark Harrison 28.5 and Jason Montreal 24.1. They were the highest first, second and third. They didn't get a score in the women's wing. That will be something that New Zealand. I know Jason runs that team. Very, very strict and I'm sure they'll address that. We're actually going to hear from Jason on Monday. We'll talk about that. Hugo Wigglesworth 12.8. When it comes to the men's highest jump, Justina kitchen, the Olympian, 47.4 putting in a huge effort there for the ladies. And Toby Wigglesworth again, if we're not hearing about Hugo, we're hearing about Toby, 58.2. I believe he actually won the furthest distance in one hour. South Africa, big effort on the last Day as well. Led by Su kay with a 25.2. Damien Roloffsey at 21.3. Sorry, Damien. Senior highest jump. Old Cedric van der Strikt 19.2. Josh Gillet 35.9. Jason Sanders Bay 33.5. Done after cold Hawaii, Luke Dixon 28.1 for their highest 1, 2 and 3. Then they had amazing efforts in the wing. They got Jess Raken 5.1 and Nathan Van Der Vuren 15.9. He also won the men's highest wing distance. One hour for the ladies. Sukay 34.7. Guys, she did that on a twin tip which is absolutely crazy. I can't believe she did that. And then Nicholas Foray 39.5. I mean they're only 3.7 from second. I know team South Africa will want to beat over Team New Zealand. The crazy thing when I think about New Zealand, I mean it has a kite surfing culture but not like Holland or South Africa. They are bigger kite surfing communities. So amazing effort from New Zealand. I'm not just saying that because I'm a Kiwi, but I am very proud of that. Of course. 14.3 points from first, 3.7 from second. So South Africa 258.4 which is a crazy, crazy, crazy effort on the last few days from those two teams. Once again, the nations cup proves to be one of the events to win. I love it. The fact that you don't have to do it at home, it allows people to do it all around the world. You just register your country and I tell you what, I want to see more of the Nations Cup. It's turning into one of the big events in kiteboarding which is super cool. As I said. On this Monday's kiteswift365 episode, we're going to hear from a bunch of of woo world winners. I'm hoping Colin will be back healthy for next week's episode because this is super weird talking to myself or should I say talking without hearing Colin talking at the same time as me. I'll be back this Monday with kites, Earth365 and a bunch of winners. Thanks to me as always. Goodbye.