Random drug-testing is commonplace within many professional sports in the modern era.

Due to the dangerous nature of kitesurfing and the possible risk to fellow competitors and innocent bystanders,
has the Gravity Games management instigated an anti-drugs strategy by randomly testing for performance-enhancing
and recreational drugs to ensure their professional athletes are clean?

Could be serious I guess. A local IKO instructor warned off two guys at the beach the other day. They had just bought a new kite from adds in the paper. They were smoking dope and drinking stubbies while trying to rig up their new kite for a fly on the beach. Summer madness is here again.

Fitzy Gold Coast OZ

but i read KBM... i thought all us kiters were sposed to be p1ssheads and into whatever parties might throw at us!?!

now i'm just confused... should i not be kiting after a heavy night on the turps, and i thought that nice little pocket on my harness was for my stash.

Good on ya all, why dont you ban sex 24hrs before riding and then id never be on the water again

anyone heard EMINEM's new song turns out he's a kiter! with lyrics such as "my lines are all the same length" , "so high right now" , "boostin on shrooms" ,"got me on edge" , "someone give a hot luanch so i can pull the #$%@#$ PIN" , "TEA, baggin the good ****"

back to the topic.
do we class what we do as a sport or a pursuit.
are we talking performance enhancing (dont know any kiters taking them,maybe redbulls and lots of em) or suppressing (alcohol, strange tabs,dope etc)most guys perform worse the next day after a blinder.
pro sport drug testing tends to target enhancing but woe betide any competitor with a recreational drug in his/her system, media field day!
do kite competitors snort coke, drop e's or have squeela slammers before they compete?
i doubt it.
let what happens in the nightclub, stay in the nightclub.

do these performance enhancing drugs you speak of
make the wind less gusty and perfectly cross shore
show me the que
i'm a gettin me suma dat

Slave's kite-flying mantra:

"Whether on the beach or in the water, always stay upwind of the party crew."

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Originally posted by waveslave

Slave's kite-flying mantra:

"Whether on the beach or in the water, always stay upwind of the party crew."

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Mine too Slave, never kite downwind of anyone you know is affected by drugs or alchohol.
I never kite downwind of the showponies either, who huck tricks regardless of how close another rider is, or how close the beach is, etc.

I really doubt there is a need in this sport, most serious kiters that compete will not take anything that slows their reflexes. If it was a bigger sport maybe it would be warranted?

Anyone who takes anything that slows their reaction times and reflexes and then goes kiteboarding is a kook, and is stupid too.
If people think they can get away with it good for them, the only people they are fooling though is themselves, when the time comes that they need to make that split second decision, they will always blame someone else or their dealer, blah, gunna, gunna, blah.................
The BS detector goes into overload when tokers are around!!

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve McCormack

i can see it all unfolding now
al qaieda training kamikaze kiteboarders
is nothing sacred

more pills

yeah the guy in the winter olympics was stripped. but then weed was taken from the banned substance list same as with windsurfing in the olympics. it'll make your freestyle a lot smoother, particularly for guys going wake style

fun is the point

joint

paul jackson would turn up.
what a nerd!

We are VERY PROUD of Ross Rebleade ( sp? ) in British Columbia Canada. He was stripped and then got back his gold medal the 1st year that snowboarding was in the Olympics. The poor boy lives HERE and one can not avoid the second hand smoke . That's his story and he's sticking to it. Ross is going to get back into it ( boarding ) this year. He hopes to win the 2010 olympics when it is held here.
Waveslave, Have you ever smoked a joint in your life?
Do you know of a drug that will make me able to FLY?
Moderation is the key to all things.