does it really matter?

jbowman said...

who thinks this is cool..cause it shows the sport os going nowhere fast.

If you want to do another kind of racing, feel free to set it up. Otherwise stop whinning

jbowman said...

who thinks this is cool..cause it shows the sport os going nowhere fast.

As long as i'm on the water having a kite, and not walking up the beach after the downwinder it's ALL GOOD!!!

jbowman said...

who thinks this is cool..cause it shows the sport os going nowhere fast.

No where... FAST...

Sorry I just had to.

last one there's a rotten egg

sunseeker said...

blowjobman - saying that downwind races are gay - is gay

Yeah but not as gay as saying that saying that downwind races are gay - is gay

Having never kited effectively, I have a question about downwind legs when racing a kite.

On a quick sailboat (skiffs, sportsboats - pretty much anything fast with an assymetric spinnaker) going dead downwind is not fast - it is faster to sail angles and utilise the apparent wind.

Is this true of kiting as well, or do you just point dead downwind and send it?

thats yep faster on a angle

and none of the above is as gay as SUP ??

pfft gay

"Can't be a man, because he doesn't smoke, the same cigarettes as me"

What I would like to see is more girls kiting. And because most girls don't have a death wish, (I mean - think they are indestructible like 15 to 90 year old guys) more of them would probably be keen to learn if they didn't get the impression is was based on 90% air time and 10% on the water. You don't need 25+ winds to have a good time on the water. People ask me if its hard on the arms or is it physically demanding and the answer is no. It's as easy as riding a pushbike. Once you learn, you don't even have to hardly concentrate on what you doing. Some people like down winders, some people like cruising and some like jumps. It’s a sport for everyone, not just adrenaline junkies.

Sorry Greenpat but you can hardly say that by calling something gay is homophobia. It can only be so if you think there is something wrong with being gay. Gay is the new word for girlie, and is just a bit of fun.
Hardly a reason to bring out your big forum deleting stick.

One of my best kiting mates is gay - and he is also one of the most hardcode kiters I know.... he quite often uses this term to refer to things that are a bit girlie or soft....

I think most gays would be offended if you felt there was a reason to delete things because you are scared of offending them....we're in the 21 century ..

you have a place as the forum police - but dont take it so seriously for gayness sake.

GreenPat said...

It's hard to see the humour in all this when it's dressed up in so much homophobia. I've deleted the other two spinoff threads, in case anyone was wondering where they went.

Or if you were wondering if Laurie had a sense of humour failure about polling gayer than GreenPat. This was my call on the 'inappropriate material' rule

don't worry pat, we know you're heaps gayer....

If you havent tried it dont knock it, being gay that is

oh my fluffy pink fairy wings, just imagine....synchronised down wind kite races.... the gay-dar would be off the richter