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watch for kevins kiteloop 7!! Now that is where i want to see the sport going
none of this lame arse "i would rather see someone stomp a back to revert or a front roll with power and style than see some of the other pkra blokes dangle on thier monkey bars" Now stop making excuses and get out there and ride hard! or stop your bleeding and go home

Knife took 3rd - Oldest on the tour hope for the rest of us! All that woodies perfection he had in January.

mick91 said...

kiteboarding is good for going big, i hate seeing riders dangle one handed from their handle bars to drop in the water and sink then ride off. ruben has the right idea as to where we need to go

i couldnt agree more! i dont see the point of this low level tecky stuff when you could send the kite and do the same trick 30 feet in the air.

There were kites in that movie????

All I saw were topless Tarifa babes, tight asses and that little sweety Susi

Pity it wasnt blowin 40 knts this year, but atleast the local girls got their Cantasitic croud pleasers out!!

Since when were 30ft high powered kiteloop handle-pass tricks easy anyway??

If they were that easy everyone would be doing them, and not all doing low level wake style.

30foot Kiteloop 7's get my vote over a 3 foot wake style move.

Keep kiting progressing!

kiteloop 7 is atleast 3 months old. get with the times boys.

I think everyone has got their niche and you don't want to be a sheep just because you want to be cool. I think proper wakestyle moves are difficult to fully appreciate and if your going to mention height as part of your arguement then you don't really understand the key concept. What ever floats your boat, only thing that annoys me is the hybridisation of it into something completely different (i.e using the kite for softer landings, more height, longer time) and then the person claiming that they are killing it. If you are going to send your kite so be it do it fully or not at all.

The reason I like wakestyle better is just the feel of tricks when they are landed properly, lines going slack etc. It is also loads harder so keeps you occupied and ages just to dial one trick. The landings can be a lot worse than a kiteloop, I like the risk element. It is like seeing someone do a backflip into a foam pit on a motor bike or see one do one off a ramp, it is the same trick but I get a bigger buzz watching it done over hard ground. Another reason is that there are still soo many tricks yet to be landed properly on a kite. When I see a perfectly executed wake move or someone hucking it with their own unique interpretation of the trick it gives me soo much more stoke than someone doing it half arsed 99999 times.

But yeah kiting is diverse so naturally people are all going to want to do things different.

Difference is though Puppet is and that you can't perform wakestyle moves properly and get that sort of height, unless of course you use a wave or something to launch off of. When you use the kite for lift you can't slacken the lines(unless you kiteloop) and the power of the kite pulls your arms up above your body so you can't do the trick properly. Then theres the softer landings from it and decreased speed of the landings(generally). Soo you can't really do wakestyle tricks high up. I think kiteloop passes are fine when they are done well, but they do tend to get butchered (kiteloop 7 was good).

Depends on what you enjoy about the sport. I like tricks that look like they are going to really hurt if you stuff them up. Obviously there is a big air attraction, and for many people that is what got them into the sport.

To me it is about being pleasing to watch and a big part of that is to see how much fun the rider is having....it is about style, both damo and space have it.