Hooked or unhooked, strapped or unstrapped, if your smashing it, your smashing it! Hit the lip, get the air, reo back onto the wave face in the pocket .... perfect 10!
Does this debate take away any cred of Marty getting mini barrels and coverups hooked into his "bow" kite and fastened securely to his wakeboard in bindings????
If we's going to debate about un/hooked and un/strapped, then you are going to have to debate the Flat kite vs "C" kite as well, infact, I vote we rule out red kites, because they are definately faster, that would be an unfair advantage and we'd have to give extra points to blue kite riders.
What about peeps riding with pulley bars?? Oh crap, does a Flat kite bar count as a pulley bar (It has pulleys, 2 in fact!), jees they're heaps more difficult to use than a standard bar, so perhaps they need added points too!
Should also give added points to anyone riding kites older than 2 years because they aren't as easy to ride as the new ones, dont turn as fast etc. And people on longer lines need extra points because thats more difficult than short lines. What about peeps on Mini Mals?? and other peeps on powered wave boards (ie less than 5 feet) as opposed to larger "surf" boards.
OMFG! what if someone were to ride a skim board???

Talk about a fly in the ointment! Now I'm really confused!
Or perhaps we could just judge the most stylish riding on the day and all have fun and no bother about all the technicalities of surf riding.
Lets kite in waves and drink beer later

Nuff Sed