yes,as a kitesurfer we have to make sure we look as good as we possibly can all the time. Doing so is far more important that being able to ride, jump or even launch the kite. Until you have the skills required to match your board shorts to your kite you can.t even call yourself a kiteboarder (thankfully most school run weekly style workshops on this topic)

Generally, riding a cabrinha is a bad start, but fear not! since you are also using a seat harness you actually enter a category of style that your regular North or Slingshot rider can not even comprehend. I suggest you acquire some gloves, helmet, glasses, flares, life vest, leg rope, pickle-fork wakeboard, kite-pants and booties. Yes, get back to your roots, lead the pack, retro chic is the kite fashion of 2010 and you are well on your way to amazing everyone down your local with how cool you are.

Just imagine, you would not even have to pump up your kite, just go to the beach and parade around looking this cool and you will have so much respect from fellow kiters you wont even have to show off your quadruple front roll one footer, this is the ultimate dream of any kiteboarder.

just put some boardshorts over your wetsuit and you`ll be fine.

As posted, their effective marketing sees them more Cabrinha kites sold and therefore more on the beach. That obviously transforms into more people who are learning being noticed crashing their Cabs.

yes they are

loco4olas said...

It's an ongoing joke that should be ignored. They make some very good kites with effective market leding safety systems and have very good backup service.

Disclosure-I ride Slingshot and have never owned a Cabrinha-did judge some comps with Pete once.

name dropper

As posted, their effective marketing sees them more Cabrinha kites sold and therefore more on the beach. That obviously transforms into more people who are learning being noticed crashing their Cabs.

- agreed.

Its not the kite it's the rider....
Some really stylish riders ride with seat harnesses too.

Use whatever's good for the day.

The cool guy is the guy having the most fun.

Yes Cab riders are generally KoOKs, however..
Before you can join team cab, and the Corey Worthington lookalike sales assistant hands you your shiny new cab, you must meet the selection criteria for one of the two cab tribes.

(a) The retro survivalist cabsters - As correctly suggested by Sandaman you must obtain, seat harness gloves, helmet, glasses, flares, life vest, leg rope, pickle-fork wakeboard, kite-pants and booties. Also a Jim Bowie or Rambo knife is a must.
An SUV is essential, fitted with DVD, Blue tooth, Satellite dish, so you can get up to the minute weather updates. Double coffe holders for you double double decaf soy latte frapppa lappa chinos.

(b) The early to mid life crisis cabsters - To join this tribe you will need.
1 - A subaru WRX Impreza, or V8 Holden ute.
2 - Sub woofers
3 - Either a partial hair transplant, blond tips, spikey hairdo (all three makes you king o the cabs)
4 - White sunnies - larger the better -name brand only.
5 - Boardies over the wettie -name brand only.
6 - Can of Caffeinated drink.

One you have selected and been accepted into your new cab tribe, you will be required to abide by the "ten cab-mandments".
1 - Though shalt learn to launch my 14mtr in 35 knots.
2- Though shalt kite amongst swimmers.
3 - Though shalt not kite where there are no trees.
4 - Though shalt carry extension ladder and garden shears to retrieve cab from such trees.
5 - Though shalt not kite where there are no power lines.
6- Though shalt make sure extension ladder is insulated and wear rubber gloves to retreive cab from such power lines.
7 - Though shalt covet getting dragged through car parks.
8- Though shalt always crash and burn in busiest areas.
9 - Though shalt embrace and engage with the "cabrinha love touch" all toilet blocks, playground equipment, bollards, park benches, pedestrians, retaining walls, storm water outlets, senior citizens with their walking frames and battery powered buggies, phone towers, piers, and any other fixed or moving structures.
10 - Though shalt collect all george of the jungle DVD's, and the theme song shall be the mantra of all ca riders......watch out for that...treeeeee

It is uncanny that in the last 2 weeks it was visiting Cabrinha riders that managed to ride right through the flags and nearly hit swimmers and piss the lifeguards right off prompting the NO KITESURFING sign to be promptly planted by the lifeguards further up the beach than ever before allowing king only on the reef or fight it out with the flatwater "legends" off the headland.

To be fair tho a couple of days back a guy on a big yellow 5 line slingshot managed to ride for the best part of 2 hours just upwind of the flags at another spot with his kite over the swimmers .This didn't seem to bother the lifeguards and by some miracle the boosts that he was doing right over the swimmers didn't result in his pickle forking itself through some swimmers head

Now to be even fairer .I got a bit close to the flags the other day when I hadn't noticed that they had been moved up the beach .I did apologise tho to the lifeguards (who said no worries)so i at least am off the hook

TRU DAT JUM

cabrinha riders are the volvo drivers of the kiteboarding world

BrisKites said...

pfr said...


The IDS system is the best thing to come out in kiteboarding

Have to love the way that a savvy advertising campaign and making up a brand specific name for something 50% of other kites do the same.

Instant Death System

now there's that negative vibe we have to be positve now remember

Somebody told me anyone riding a kite with a bridal is a kook completely unsure of their kiting ability.

kiterepairs.blogspot.com/2009/02/cabrinha-kite-repair-featured-as.html

If you don't have Ed Hardy clothes on already you should get some, they are all the rage for any budding Crapinha sporting kook.

japie said...

I have been using a 10m Switchblade I bought second hand in Perth for 2 1/2 seasons. It is rigged with some Peter Lynn lines, a slingshot bar that is a bit tatty and has a bit of duct tape on the canopy plus two canopy split repairs that I had done very cheaply and effectively. Any kite would have bust under the circumstances.

Yours is bust, it's held together with tape and spare parts and should probably be scrapped... Dump it in the next tree you cruise past