As an ex pole boy of 15 yrs, as I was towing in a non progressive type with a broken mast (remember, think about that annoying thing that had to go on top of the car). Couldn't waste a good opportunity ........suggested it was time to change sports. My, what a silent trip in it became. Can anyone suggest any LOGICAL reason why the pole boys stick to their discipline?
Lets start it off:

1. Anally retentive
2. no balls
3. sorry, that's it, just can't understand it!


****ty thread i know, but the wind is looking ****ty this weekend.
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It Hurts So Good!

Don't start trying to convince the windsurfing crew to swap to kiting, there're enough strings on the water now!

Who needs crowds?

I was just thinking about that when I watched a car pull up at Wello yesterday with a fibreglass stick on the roof that was longer than the car. It was an old mazda sporty looking thing that looked like it might have been cool in the 80s, and I thought "just like windsurfing".

The Green Baron

I'll get you yet Von Richtofen, you fiend.

Gasman,
Your thread seems to me to be more befitting of a 13 yr. old than a 42 yr. old - if that in fact is correct. I personally dont think that this type of negativity is helpful, and only serves to inflame any distrust or whatever that seems to exist between the two sports - of which I dont really understand! Both are dynamic, exciting sports - and if participants in both go about their chosen sport respectful and mindful of the other, then I dont see any problems. To me its a bit like say a hang-glider pilot slagging off paragliding. Both sports have some similarities, and some disparity - yet why run the other sport down just because its not your cup of tea. To say that there is only room for one is utter nonsense - I predict both will be there long into the future. Gary Mitchell

gazza

No balls???

Is this the reason why all the windsurfers are still out having a good time when its 30+ and theres not a kite to be seen...

Haydz

Whether its wind surfing or kiteing, both sports involve free renewable wind, dont polute the air, and are both enjoyable.
Even though kiteing you can jump way more higher.

Get some wind up ya!

see you all out there on the water on monday arvo
prediction is for 20-25 s/se
side off with a 1.5m swell

PFFFFFFFFFT the only thing ballsy about kiting is when u get ur nuts slapped when use crash cos you cant land ur ***** little moves, you are hated by surfers, windsurfers and wakeboarders for trying to copy something from each of the sport and the only thing you have going for you is the height you can get but you ruin it with all those **** moves you have created. you will never be able to ride a wave like a surfer or windsurfer so y do u bother, you just make your sport look that much gayer, and with wakeboarding if you landed a double backflip its sick but wen you do it kiting it just looks gay cos any1 could do it u make it look gay. windsurfers that have crossed to kiting have mostly dominated but id love to c some1 who has only ever kited try and go professional in windsurfing

luke.j

As usual when theres no wind theres Lotsa people trying to justisfy what they do by seting up an us against them.

Once again I'll piont out the obvious

No matter what the discipline

"They do it because they enjoy it"

Everything else is bollocks.

Kitings only reletively young so of coarse the tricks are going to come from other board sports. Example... surfing got moves like 'the slash' from a bodyboarder name Paul Roach who used to surf & began dropkneeing on a bodyboard so he could 'throw the tail more.' Wakeboarding came from surfers & trick skiiers... Anyway what i'm trying to say is that no sport is better than another, just you prefer to do your particular sport more than any other. Influence from other sports is what makes a sport grow & get better.

By the way luke.j windsurfing used to look really gay with their triangle shaped sails and 10ft boards with rudders & was a 'family sport' that anyone could do. Then they started using smaller boards which came from the influence of... ooh let me see Surfing! & guess what Surfers used to hate on windsurfers!
Then a handfull windsurfers learnt to ride the waves & do some tricks & slowly gained some respect for their chosen sport.
Oh & if kiters wanted to ride a wave like a surfer they would paddle onto it & not use their kites.
Sounds to me like you havent tried kiting..... Or maybe you did but got your nuts slapped when you crashed trying a little move?

Hey steveh,
Sounds like you were kooking at Penguin Is. oneday, got spooked by 20 other kiters and were intimidated so much that you immediately dropped the sport.
Don't give up so easily.
The greenhorn stage of the sport can often be the most fun part; it's all new and fresh.

the most intimidating thing about kiting is realising the mentality of a large part of the kite fraternity. Kiting is easy - trying to explain to people you do it and you dont drive an HSV is hard

steve

Gasman,

This discussion is so passed its use-by date its not funny.

Here is the deal that we all know to be fact.

Kiters like you (not all are like you) are from one breeding pool: FAILED windsurfers.

Guys who can actually wavesail and tried kiting out of curiosity, have come back to wavesailing in droves laughing at how boring an uncomparable kiting is.

The guys who bag windsurfing are the ones that were so **** at it that they have to hide their lack of manhood underneath gay baggy pants or boardies over their wetties, and dangle on the end of some kids toy.

The exception to the rule (ie. kiters who aren't total dickwads), are the ones who get on with their favourite sport of choice and not waste their time starting gay threads like this to disguise their own inadequacies.

One sport involces real bottom turns, real lip smacking, real loops. The other is kiting.
But they are 2 different sports so why compare them?

Windsurfers know this. kiters know this. The ones that put up ****ty arguements like this are just tools like you who are **** at both sports.

Enjoy both sports everyone, and hope that gasman does not join you.
Windsurfing will flourish without him.

i have dont all the sports mentioned in this thread, and are about to get serious with this kiting. i think they each have their own appeal, and followers alike. i wont diss any of them as i am average at them all, so no argument from my neck of the woods.

anyone who baggs other sports, in a serious manner, needs to relax!

WHAT IS THE ****ING DEAL!?

Half of you guys bagging windsurfing have never tried it.
Half of you guys bagging kitesurfing have never tried it.

Why ask one or the other why they are still kiting or windsurfing 'caus the other is so much better. You know the bloody answer. They still doing it because its fun! Why else do you do it.

Someone give me a reason why we all can't just drop the attitude and get out there and share the water and be mates. I know there a dicks out there in both sports, but you get that in everything, and thats not a reason to bag the sport as a whole.

All you kiters out there remember how many times a kiter has got in your way.
All you windsurfers out there remember how many times a windsurfer has got in your way.

Share the stoke, Thats what we do it for in the first place!

Sounds like we all need a good session.

how can a kiter do a loop when they are hanging from strings
GONE WITH THE WIND