Using a wakeboard for kiting, can noticeably decrease your learning experience. As wakeboards are made to be used behind a boat at a consistent rate, kite boarding you are never traveling at a consistent rate, it is always variable. For low winds, don’t bother. Wakeboards compared to kite boards are fairly heavy, and this is so they enable faster jumps off boat wake and help you add a turn to the trick. Their rocker is designed for hard landings, but too much rocker in kite boarding, and you can’t go upwind very well. Kite boards are more light, flexible, concave bottom, and the fins are quite different. This all allows a kite board to edge and cruise upwind, and hence, why we used kite boards and not wakeboards.
Don’t get me wrong, if you are an experienced rider, you can use a wakeboard in higher winds when you have a lot of power. You can control your rail fairly well, and your speed can easily be controlled. It’s just not highly recommended or seen.
Goodwinds mate
Send me a line if you want to know anything else, or if I can help you with anything -
Elizabeth Bate - Wello Kiter
