first was the 180 switch then 141 the 131 then came the surf board and now i have been kiting on my 9'1 mal talk about low speed planing when will the crazyness stop its just to much fun and iam doing my best to be a growind up what other special boards are there to ride or what have you riden ( water skis , skim boards , wake skates etc.etc.etc)

sstrapped or unstrapped hook or unhooookkkeedddd siiick

are you talking about a skimboard cause I kite on them a bit

these are plywood, and around 7-800mm diameter and circular of course.

I have seen kids playing in the surf wash on similar things but surfboard shaped.

Eski lid!!
Had a hole in it and the wind was dying so didn't last long.

skateboard deck

Had a maccas tray on each foot was just like sking...not to sucessful.. all down wind...done a conoe aswell.. that was great fun.. flipped it heaps through the shore break though...skate boards are also not so good at goin too well... are a bit too small...even rode me pushy with a kite.... bit hard to stop... just had to crash... one hand steering the kite the other the bike

A guy in Townsville (name escapes me now) had a piece of helicopter door as his primary board. I heard after I left that he upgraded to a real board after carving serious chunks out of himself.

I have tried a skateboard with old shoes bolted on it. wind was a bit light tho

Back in the prehistoric, pre inflatable kite days, even pre foil kite days, I hot melt glued a pair of hiking boots to a pair of cut down downhill/slalom snow skis, I just kept shortening them, until they were about 50cm long, V cuts in the ends, to help get an edge on the sand before I went in the water.
It was always a downwind course with the wife picking me up, favourite run was black rock to barwon heads, approx 6klms one way!!

I ended up staying out of the water because the set up worked better on the wet sand at low tide.

I used stacks of 2.5M Wingspan delta stunt kites, had up to 6 of them, equivalent to approx 10M foil, 13M inflato!!

Then I discovered kite buggies, until I saw the first Wipika, then went back to the water with foils, non relaunchable ones, because they flew so much better than the first blimps.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve McCormack

I once saw on Funniest Home Videos that some guy went water ski-ing at some capm site, but forgot his ski's, So he found one of those old picnic tables with the seats connected, flipped that upside down and off he went,

wonder if you could kite on one...lol.