NotWal said...Leech said...I started this topic for 2 reasons.
1. To find out why you windsurf, what drives you.
2. To test a theory. I suggested in another topic
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34180&whichpage=1 that
people don't windsurf because it makes them look cool. After 21 replies no one has said they windsurf to make themselves cooler!
Not surprisingly, some of our kitesurfing brothers have different motivations.
I asked them why they kite, here.www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34212 
To the kiters who do it for the stoke, respect.
To those who are trying to be "cool", you're pathetic!
I didn't notice an undue amount of posing in the kite thread. Kiting does look cool and its young and new. What do you expect? Trying to be cool is often pathetic I agree, but Its just human nature. Its particularly important to kids striving for an identity to want to be admired. It is a tad pathetic when they fail, but pathos is nothing to sneer at. You seem to be sneering.
When I posted there were about 4 replies and two of them mentioned being cool. Looking back at the "why kite" topic again now, it's good to see that the majority of the responses are about stoke.
I think it's pretty funny how kiting seems to evolve based on what is "cool". Like waveslave's jump post: "big standard jumps in kiting are now not cool."
From what I can gather, neither is riding strapped, hooking in, riding directionals, C kites, the list goes on.
I'm so glad that windsurfing is not dominated by what's "cool". If you want to jump, jump. If you want to loop, loop. If you want to blast, blast. If you want to slay waves, slay waves. You ride the way you want to.
Notwal, stop wearing your boardies over your wetty - kiting doesn't look any "cooler" than other sports.
but the start of it all? 1985 sitting on a beach with a friend having a brew and i couldn't believe these 4 europeans just blasting back and forth and from then on i just said to myself i just had to do that and in '93 did get the chance never looked back and still learning
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and if i said that i always get the reply "am a woman therefore..." you know what the sentence would end up. i don't mind but at the end of the day i'd be more dead tired than just smiley tired
