Liquid Force do one as well.

The seabreeze shop has a cover for ipods and alike

www.seabreeze.com.au/Shop/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=28

H2o audio make great quality waterproof headphones and cases for ipods. They have around a 3 metre depth rating, and are made for watersports activities.

As my forum name suggests, I'm a dj as well as an audiophile and a musician. I love music however the contemporary "headphones everywhere" thing is not cool, especially in an activity like kiting.

When you're listening to headphones you tend to perceive the world cinematically, as though you are witnessing a movie. Even though you are a participant in the "movie" (and perhaps because the soundtrack heightens the feeling of being a star, of being THE star), you will tend to narrow your visual awareness to just what's in front of you, and to act as though in a bubble.

This is great if you're sitting on the train doing a boring commute, but when you're kiting it's imperative to keep your peripheral awareness (visual and auditory) open, to other kiters, other water users, and shifting conditions.

Now, I expect the reply will come, "but I'm an experienced kiter, I know what I'm doing." Well, think of it like drink driving. Any alcohol in your system will impair your judgement and response time, no matter how good a driver you are. Similarly, music loud enough to be rocking out to while kiting will diminish not only your auditory awareness but also your peripheral visual awareness.

So please, think twice before kiting with tunes.

Interested folk may want to research statistics correlating pedestrian, cyclist and joggers' accident rates with and without headphones, and the phenomena associated with synesthesia, that is, the ways in which experience in one sensory mode affects the other senses.

I havent tried listening to tunes when kiteing,but use to crank the walkman when snowboarding.

Dojo is sort of right,It does make you feel like your in a movie,
but didnt seem to change my ability or safety.

Oh and didnt realise I was singing along so loud as I was flying down the mountain,sorry to the people on the chairlift above me.

^ Is it angry music you listen to by chance? A bit of rage against the machine? Maybe put on something softer, you need to relax...
Also, with your massively high IQ surely you would have something more clever to write than F*%king idiot.

I have one- I kited with it once and have not used it since. It would be different if your board came with an inbuilt sound system- like a car does, but because it is right in your ears you lose all sense of what is going on around you. My 2c worth- I didn't find it enjoyable and wont be doing it again. Dojo takes it a bit far with the star of the movie analogy but the idea is definitely correct- you stop interacting with your surroundings and get a bit lost in your own world....

loverboy said...

I have one- I kited with it once and have not used it since. It would be different if your board came with an inbuilt sound system- like a car does, but because it is right in your ears you lose all sense of what is going on around you. My 2c worth- I didn't find it enjoyable and wont be doing it again. Dojo takes it a bit far with the star of the movie analogy but the idea is definitely correct- you stop interacting with your surroundings and get a bit lost in your own world....

Now there is an idea... sound system on the board

I like djdojo
very cryptic and thought based response

pynnee said...I am writer for architectural and engineering software so I know people with lower IQs shouldn't do stuff people with high IQs do.

To be fair to Pynnee, he never said that he had a high IQ, he simply stated that he knew the difference between people with high IQs and those with low IQs because of his job.
Now since he works with Architects and Engineers, who I assume are the ones with high IQs, which just leaves one person with the low IQ

If I did what the voices in my head told me to do, Id be in jail.[}:)][}:)][}:)]

I recommend Aquapac, it's vastly cheaper than than H20.
They didn't have the version with headphone liner in the shop and there isn't one for the iPhone yet, but I couldn't wait, so I bought a generic one that's slightly too big, but that's all right.

It's got an arm band, the touchscreen of my iPhone works through the plastic and in water and you can simply blast your music through the speakers (I don't think mic and speakers work for other pouches).

Might not help everyone, but I don't think riding with isolating headphones is a good idea anyway as you should be aware of what's going on around you...

jquigley said...
You sure do speak with some authority dude. If you say I percieve the world as if I'm watching a movie (while listening to my Ipod) then you must be right.....cos you're a dj? and an audiophile and a musician?....you forgot legend in your own lunch box.

Even if you come back quoting statistics and research papers to back up your sermon I say damn you, you bunch of wowsers. I represent the inference that I'm a pubic enemy number one. I defend the right to kite while drunk.... I mean while listening to music piped directly into my aural sensory organs (ears).



J-P

Well Mr PUBIC enemy number one, in the words of our famous brand spanking new pom "Please explain!". Does this title mean that you are the enemy of Pubis' everywhere, or just dislike the general region?

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Confuscious say:

Man who go to bed with itchy bottom......wake up with smelly finger.

Get a H20 Audio man! the new ones are awesome and fit all i pod sizes, remember you buy cheap you buy twice ;o)

arguing of headphones only on seabreeze... Anyway I have tried the headphones and I didnt like it because you cant hear whats going on, its a big distraction. Not hearing the wind when its strong isnt a good thing at all.