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Originally posted by Josh K
don't matter what ur getting pulled behind whether it be, boat,cable,kite. its still the same thing. should cable be a completely different sport to wake boarding? the tricks in cable are exactly the same as wakeboarding yet there is no wake or a boat? cant see why kiting is any different.
Give it a rest. The way I saw it, the bosch things were done as publicity for a sponsor. Any idiot with half a brain could have worked that out but obviously half the wakestyle crowd share the same brain and draw straws to see who gets it and none of them got it this time.
If wakeboarding is so great and has so much cred, why don't you give up kiting and go wakeboarding. You can have lots of fun with your friends who can't spell either.
Plenty of other sports have similar tricks to wakeboarding, I'm willing to bet wakeboarding didn't take the names from trick skiing (and trick skiers probably also sitting bitching about the street cred of wakeboarding) where some of the inverts behind a boat started. I don't see you bitching about that.
Even wakeboarding is guilty of its own repetition of names, for example, a fruit loop is a front flip to blind...why not just call it exactly what it is? A fat chance is a switchstance front mobe, why not call it just that? I'm sure kiters could easily ask how much in your own ass do you have to be to rename the same trick when its done switchstance or when its to blind? Incidentally, most kiteboarding tricks are called exactly that. i.e. switchstance mobe or they'd be renaming every trick in wakeboarding because some guy adds an extra danglepass at the end of it.
The day someone does an F16 behind a boat I'll agree to follow every wakeboarding naming convention