eppo said...No the trend of the biggest kite as you can handle seems to be more of a dying art everyone's prancing about doing their cutbacks on SBs on 7 m in two foot mush. Lol.
Interesting comment about the 2 foot "mush". I hear some ppl say this when talking about perth metro waves. Maybe a bit pedantic, but every time I see this I think technically its an incorrect comment.. The waves albeit small, tiny even are actually punchy sucky little shorey fkers.
Probably why they still a lot of fun to smash lips and punt off etc, even a cutback or two ;) I dont really have a problem with how small they are when kiting and I often think its great that kiting makes such little waves still so fun..
Was discussing this local wave type with my shaper, Dave Lewis. He thinks the same and we shape my kiting boards with a decent amount of rocker for "in pocket" turns (just have a very short flat section in the middle of the rocker/board - to get speed going quickly when first setting off, or tacking.. then once riding the board rides on the tail rocker for the most part). Mushy/spilling type waves are actually hard to find on our beachies which suit a flat rocker. Most guys in Perth are riding flat rockered boards bought off the shelf with the design targeted at "mushy" waves thinking this is the best performing shape for Perth metro.. think again
...(not all of course, seen some sick windsurfing height - but Jesus they come down hard).
