Sounds kinda like scooters? Fun to ride but dont tell your mates

If I was younger , richer and lived on the coast I wouldn't mind giving it a go..last time I went out I was chugging and they were all getting along ok..gusty 10-15kts..I haven't got formula gear & the biggest sail I want to use is the 6.6m.To make it worse where I sail with them it is so shallow that I have to drag/walk the board up 500m to start..they just walk past with their backpacks.and then cruise through the shallows.
Still I think I would get bored with it unless I went in the surf.Mind you at least I could turn .. getting sick of my dodgy gybes..which reminds me Ill have to make the effort to rig up & do some dry land gybe practise today..
Don't get me wrong I LOVE sailboarding..I am a bit disgusted at my lack of talent though..

K Dog said...
Don't get me wrong - I love Windsurfing - but I recon I'd be happy doing both.

The Blasphemy!

K Dog said...

yeah - I have been thinking about this lately too :P

Don't get me wrong - I love Windsurfing - but I recon I'd be happy doing both.

Remind me to slap you next time I see you.

K Dog said...

yeah - I have been thinking about this lately too :P

Don't get me wrong - I love Windsurfing - but I recon I'd be happy doing both.

That's a very slippery slope you're messing with.

Everybody that windsurfs that tries kiting says, "I'll do both. I'll kite when it's light and windsurf when it's strong. It'll be great."

I got my first kite and before I realised it 11 months had gone by. I dragged out the sailboard and had a lovely session on it. It was fun. Another 11 months went by and all the sailboarding gear went into the Trading Post.

The various benefits of both disciplines aside, there's no way windsurfing can compete with the compactness and convenience and versatility of a kite and a single small board. I can fit 3 kites and 2 boards in the boot of my car giving a wind range of 10-12 to 40-50 knots. A single kite and board can be fine for 10-25 or 15-30 knots.

We need an intervention. BROTHERS UNITE!!!!

Gorgo said...

K Dog said...

yeah - I have been thinking about this lately too :P

Don't get me wrong - I love Windsurfing - but I recon I'd be happy doing both.

That's a very slippery slope you're messing with.

Everybody that windsurfs that tries kiting says, "I'll do both. I'll kite when it's light and windsurf when it's strong. It'll be great."

I got my first kite and before I realised it 11 months had gone by. I dragged out the sailboard and had a lovely session on it. It was fun. Another 11 months went by and all the sailboarding gear went into the Trading Post.

The various benefits of both disciplines aside, there's no way windsurfing can compete with the compactness and convenience and versatility of a kite and a single small board. I can fit 3 kites and 2 boards in the boot of my car giving a wind range of 10-12 to 40-50 knots. A single kite and board can be fine for 10-25 or 15-30 knots.

Agreed - but
I know lots of kiters who used to windsurf. After 5 - 8 years ish for these guys, they really want to come back to windsurfing a sthey feel kiting in the waves is limited and as very very good kiters they are running out of stuff to do, and want to go back to doing loops and actually surfing waves not just be dragged along them and wiggle rail to rail a bit.

Before the kiters' lynching and flaming me starts, that is their words not mine. Lots of them wanna come back

I've had a kite for about a year, only ridden it about a dozen times...

I keep on putting it in the car, thinking "Maybe if it's not very windy I'll put it up".

But most times when I get there I think "Man I could get going on my windsurfer in this"


I love WA

red said...

Blasphemy!! Stone him stone him... STOP... are there any women here??

(vague Brian reference)

"splitter!!"

Not to get me wrong too am still very much into windsurfing if it hits 15plus but below that this fabric in the sky is just too fun not cruise around there's no fuzzy windshield downwind it's not that expensive here as windsurfing and kiting is too many 2nd hand gear in very good condition..the courseboard was a steal..Just like Greenie says' its fun and just keep quiet bout it'...am not into trick stuff just cruising and an occasional boost but then again when there are 5 windsurfers and just 1 kiter here in the island it's not much fun

jermaldan said...

Better than getting a "fist experience"

Ahhh finally this topic is back on topic - kiting.

Hi Guys, I don't often post on your forum but this thread looked interesting. I know how much you like to carve big turns so I thought I'd share with you this recent development in kiting. Hope you like it. It's the sort of riding I like to do.

Mark _australia said...

I know lots of kiters who used to windsurf.

Lots of them wanna come back

Yeah right. ^^^
lol.

If the thread has anything to do with kiting ...
Mark is sure to be posting.
He can't stop himself.
I dare you to try to give up, Mark.
I bet you can't.
He's a closet kiteophile.
hahaha

wow sure does look a lot easier than the quad fins..

terminal said...

This is about the best advert for kiting I have seen. Kiting on a raceboard does extend the the useable wind down to at least 8 knots, so it could fit in below the windsurf range.

Its quite enjoyable to windsurf on a big board and small sail in the 3 to 10 knot range and doing some freestyle. So no, a kite raceboard's range doesn't fit below windsurfing range.