Pretty sure the vast majority of people would go out for 3-4 hours at a time if they had the chance, this seems like a strange bunch of people you've been talking to.

Mmm yeh one of them is for sure, another would rather lift and the last one in my posse is getting a sex change in readiness for hockey season. Seriously though people seem to get disinterested if they're not progressing which obviously consumes more and mire of your time. There doesnt seem to be alot of stoke for just cruising around/boosting and catching waves

That is how it is if you occupy a human brain, which is i presume all of you.

We are all looking for excitement and when it fade we are left with either finding new ways to make it interesting or just stopping the activity all together. This is why they invented karma sutra btw ;)

When I start to get bored of kitseurfing, I just lay on the water like a starfish for a few minutes, clear my head and then get up riding and do lawn mowing for about 10-20 minutes. It is therapeutic and takes the aim away from "sh#t yeah, this is sick" to "this is very pleasant, I am enjoying this... I am glad I am not in prison, or at work... wait same thing".

Blokes that need to fill this in kite for an hour

You got to try new things,I got a bit bored riding a tt then learned foiling then started riding a surfboard strapless love it,then went back to the tt and started to learn new tricks. So now my sessions include every angle of kiteboarding,next is strapless Sb backrolls and front rolls ??

I cant say I'm bored with it, still loving it. But have to admit the novelty has worn off compared to the first few seasons after initially getting into it when it was an obsession. If I can get two sessions in in a week in summer, particularly a massive weekend day, I'm happy to just go home from work on an additonal windy evening during the week. I've got a lot of other hobbies to keep me occupied, and I'm also fairly very lazy and so I put a lot of value into downtime. Or netflix and chill as the kids call it these days.
That said, I dont see that I'll ever quit this sport, not until I'm too old and decrepit and thats probably 30 years away so there's plenty more kiting left in me.

eppo said..
I was appreciative just to go up and back to be honest (all tricks, even the slightest in nature are off the table). To glide across the water and feel the wind was well above boredom.

To achieve just this every session, bliss.

I wish my whole life was like that in every respect. Pure appreciation.

I've masturbated furiously since i was 13
I don't see too well nowadays

And i usually have to wait for the skin to heal between blasts

But...

Still not bored of it

eppo said..
I would say lack of progression or willingness to progress through real or perceived risk causes boredom.

And or lack of interest. As an example, I am not interested in wake style. I look at it and think what is that spider monkey ****? Other people love it, i don't. To a lesser extent the same goes for airstyle. It looks cool when other people are doing it. But I don't enjoy the actual doing myself. I enjoy riding a wave. But I have not interest in riding like a surfer. I want to ride it like a kiter!

So I wont dedicate time to be a purist wave rider, nor will i dedicate time to do any wake style or in depth airstyle.

My progression will not be linked to those things. Which sort of limits me to a degree as far as traditional kitesurfing is concerned. However I expand my range and progress by adding alternative conditions and craft to what i do enjoy.

It has taken me a while to understand my personal joy. I call myself a terrain rider. I love to interact with a variety of different types of terrain in different conditions. It's not limited to the water or in fact kiting. But the common theme is seat of the pants riding with a challenging enviroment. That could be 5m swell epic monster waves, 30-40 knot storm onshore mush, a boosting session with sweat ramps, an epic adventure in the sand dunes in the kite buggy. Downhill runs on themountain bike, slicing through the chop on the foil, Jumping boulders on the beach with the landboard.

Ahhhh... Am I bored? No! i have a constantly changing environment with a variety of toys to explore the ever changing conditions.

But if i had Cauncy's crappola 18-25 knots of wind blow mush for months on end i might get bored with that same old same old. No wonder he has a sheep fetish. He has to entertain his brain from going mad due to the lack of variation!.

everyone is different. i personally continue frothing for the next session where as i know mates who are happy to pick and chose and kiting isn't the top priority, usually due to family first which i think is fair. What frustrates me the most is kite buddies who bail at the last minute when you go out of your way to have a session with them.

Probably mowing to lawn out there...instead of boosting

beebee said..
How lucky are we, compared to most people in the world?! Most sessions, epic or otherwise, I take a moment to appreciate just being out there slicing through the waves, in the sun, free. :-)

Yep :) but human psychology dictates that we (whether we like it or not) sooner or later end up taking things for granted and not see the beauty/novelty in them anymore. Like, I used to crave gash when I was single, and now that I have a wife... pffft I'd be surprised if i get it up once a fortnight!

I reckon cauncys bored of it

Havnt had a weather report in daayyss

gcdave said..
I reckon cauncys bored of it

Havnt had a weather report in daayyss

We might need to move west, dead and slowly dying in SEQ eh

JKimbler said..
I think my stoke grows with every new board or style I try. It's awesome to be a beginner at a new style of riding.

This is usually when you get the most stoke from anything I feel. Recently I felt this again from learning to Snowboard and learning to Foil. I'm kind of sad now though as there isn't many other new things I can try, which is why I feel the need to push myself to try new tricks, it's like a small part of that feeling you got when you learnt it to begin with.

That guy who said that just cruising around and taking in the surroundings is cool is also right I think, but that's a different type of feeling.