as a former wakeboarder turned kitesurfer i posted a thread on the wakeboarding forum asking if anybody kitesurfs . i did not say that one was better than the other all i asked was if anybody kitesurfed and man did i get plasted what a bunch of F wits .they are all pissed because we can do all the tricks they do and more and we did not spend $50,000 on a boat that cannot even get to rotto
apparently we are called TEA BAGGERS has anybody here this term .
also this F wit that runs the site said that i kite surf because i have no mate to go wakeboarding with . i have met more great people in the last 2months than i would have ever imaged all with the same interest and willing to help ,not with a ego saying "my boats better than your ".this gay was so stupid that he call the tricks kitesurfer do guy even though most of them come from wakeboarding.
anyway just venting my anger hope not all wakeboarders are that narrow minded . i was not.has anybody come across this
from now on every time it is windy i will think of him.

Most of the wakeboarder I know cant get into kiting cause they owe too much money on their boats... suckers !

The Cat amongst the pigeons...

The term I heard for us was shark lures, as well as tea baggers. Personally I like being a shark lure. Kinda has a nice ring to it, don't ya think?

Its just the same old storey....
Every sport thats 'new' & 'extreme' that is similar to another sport goes through the same process it seems. Generally speaking, the other sports feel 'threatened' by you and group together to in small groups to 'hate' you. It seems that the groups are mostly formed by try hard wannabe pros. The real professionals of a sport dont seem to care about this sort of crap, as they usually went through the same 'hatred' when they first started. They tend to know what its like to be outcast by other sports or the masses & will show a lot more appreciation for what you can do, they try to learn off you to further their own sport rather then just bag you. They know how hard you have to work to make a new sport 'popular' to the masses and give it its own direction. It happened to skateboarders, bodyboarders, inline skaters, & even wakeboarders took like 3years doing other sports tricks before they went off in their own direction.
Just have fun what your doing, who cares what they think.

They are probably just jealous of the fact we can do all their tricks so easy & that the general public would way rather watch a kiter go flying up high in the air then watch a guy being towed by a boat.

Jags ,
which forum is this?

Most wakeboarders that I know of are super keen on kiteboarding!
Maybe its just that forum..

ah well let them call us whatteva they wanna, at the end of the day i can throw my gear into my car and drive away, no boat to wash, rgister, launching fees, larger V8 to tow the damm thing, etc etc.

wind is free, so tapp that resource!

catch yas..

p.s. i like the tea-bag name.........beats being a dude who gets trauled behind a boat for Jaws to come up from the lurky depths and take a nibble.

every wakeboarder i meet eats too much sprouts.
I reckon sprout eating adjusts your mental attitude.
Heard the samething about broccoli eaters once.
Drink guinness eat pies, its the way to go

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1. Kiting is the future for a green planet. Clean, green, noiseless, transportable and sustainable

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dont forget to consider the "cost" of manufacturing materials used in construction of kites and boards...

having said that theres a huge "cost" in manufacturing a boat too ;)

hey getfunky did you go to the nationals????