Can somebody please enlighten me to the definition to the named styles.

Free Ride and Free Style sound pretty much the same to me, and then there is New School ???
Does that mean that old school no longer relevant and did it really exist in the first place.

I have Wake-style and Wave riding sort of figured. (It took me a while but I nutted it out in the end).

The reason I want to know is that I am looking at getting new gear, and the definitions or graphs ( Blurrrb/Hype) on the manufactures websites tell me that the kite will perform better for those riding styles, so I want to know if that applies to me. Will it matter or is it all just sales BullSheet

I am sure that there is some technically minded person out there that can clarify this for me.

Cheers

The usual suspects and sheep will answer this one for you.

God knows what they all mean, but one thing you do know for sure is your gonna look like a full page spread in homo erotica magazine doing any of them... They are all forms of kiteboarding...

Thank you for all that clarity people, I feel so much the wiser.
You have restored my faith in the benifits of open forum and discussion.
Cheers.

samoht said...

Can somebody please enlighten me to the definition to the named styles.

Free Ride and Free Style sound pretty much the same to me, and then there is New School ???
Does that mean that old school no longer relevant and did it really exist in the first place.

I have Wake-style and Wave riding sort of figured. (It took me a while but I nutted it out in the end).

The reason I want to know is that I am looking at getting new gear, and the definitions or graphs ( Blurrrb/Hype) on the manufactures websites tell me that the kite will perform better for those riding styles, so I want to know if that applies to me. Will it matter or is it all just sales BullSheet

I am sure that there is some technically minded person out there that can clarify this for me.

Cheers

Free Ride- When you borrow someones kite
Free style- what you do when nobody's looking
Wake style - who cares
New school- students kiting between 9 and 3
Old school - anything on a c kite
Wave riding - being able to understand marketing hype


Hope this helps...