Kiting Sunny Miami in the Summer...(some know it as waiting for wind)..

Got a kite session(and a half) in this week, made decent riding progress(I still suck) before my kite became inverted and dropped/spun into "fifth-line hell"(that extra line is for safety right?), forcing my trudge back to the beach to return the lines to proper working order. I digress, I did manage to "get-up" and ride for a few minutes both goofy and switch(I'm a goofy-footed rider) but was unable to set an edge; ergo no upwind riding, yet. Yesterday the good folks at Ikitesurf.com predicted a 12-14mph afternoon at my local spot so I loaded up and hit the beach! pumped up my big Vegas kite and I managed my first self launch! One quick ride later and I found myself relaunching my very wet 18m kite only to have it invert(seeing a pattern yet?) and loop/roll into "fifth-line hell." well the wind was light enough to just haul the monster back to the beach, followed by the now customary re-rig. I just knew the wind was enough to get out there, or so I thought. Some pedestrians helped with the launch on this attempt, but once again the wind let up, the kite crashed from twelve o'clock landing just a few feet in front of me. It was time to give up; so head down, tail between my legs and kite becoming more frustration than fun I made my way to shore and set the kite to dry. As I coiled down my lines I heard a fire-cracker like pop as my center strut bladder had just popped. Great. One more reason I probably should have not bothered with yesterday. I've got to go fix that bladder, maybe there will be some wind next week. Tomorrow looks like flats fishing as the forecast is for 1-2 mph of wind, but of course I'll get out on the canoe only to have it be better weather for kiting than fly fishing.