http://www.continentseven.com/2011/01/16/lord-of-the-wind-2011-pritchard-wins-again/

Good to see an Ezzy leading the way

Gonna be interesting to see how KP goes in the PWA using Ezzy sails. Great wave sails (pretty cool to have Dave Ezzy personally tune all our sails at Kanaha) but unless they have a full blown race sail in the pipeline kinda hard to see him challenging the likes of Antoine, Bjorn etc.
Best of luck to him anyway, as laid back as you can be

yeah the comments were a bit ordinary

Now seeing as though the kiters Rotto to Leighton run a month ago was done in about the same time as windsurfers did when the comp was last run (10yrs ago or something) lets make next years half kiters and half windsurfers, 2 ways (return journey like it used to be)

that I want to see.

Even our good friend Waveslave has made a comment!

Nah. I watched a race at Elwood years ago when Jason Polakow first appeared as a rising pro. He crashed mid-course and dicked around and the whole fleet passed him. He then got going and lapped the entire field.

The rider with the most skill wins.

Of course, the kiters beat all the other windsurfers.

Contrary to what the story says, the competition had registrations from 20-odd windsurfers and around 50 kiters so the field was not totally dominated by kiters. Sure it was 2:1 but not enough to swamp the windsurfers.

None of the "world's best kite racers" had been in the world championship field and none of the top names were there.

I'm guessing apart from Kevin Pritchard and 1-2 other guys the windsurfers were also just keen guys and not top professional racers either.

Oops! Sorry. My mistake. The kitesurf racers were world class. I looked at the wrong results list.

^^^^^^Ha Ha BBBBBaaaaahhhh,
I just went and read marks comment,,
He has finally come out of the closet,,,good for you old boy
The kite basher has turned kite lover.
Hope you enjoy kiteing.

^^^^abuse ,WTF are you talking about??????
Im talking about your comments on the web site link thats posted,,,what this topic is about.

Mark _australia said...

lotofwind said...

^^^^abuse ,WTF are you talking about??????
Im talking about your comments on the web site link thats posted,,,what this topic is about.

I said the comments were ordinary
Like just cos the kiter lost some d!ckhead windsurfers had to post rubbish comments

Or do you think all the comments in that link were spot on? coming over to windsurfing perhaps are ya

you still dont get it??
Im not talking about your comments here,
but you comments on the site that is posted in the link.

Chill out,,Im not having a go at you,,dont get all defensive.

So Mark, is someone smurfing you or are you now kiting and really enjoying it

Anyway when the water is deeper than ankle height, kiters are slower.

Kiting is only faster in one spot in Africa. Everywhere else in the world,ie where 99.9999% of the places to get on the water windsurfing is faster and better.

Mark _australia said...

I din't make any comments in that link........ I only refer to it here and say that the comments in that link are crap

Me thinks waveslave might have posted under two different log-ins
Comment by Waveslave
17. January, 2011 23:59
Windsurfers will always be second best on the water lol

Comment by MarkAust. WA
18. January, 2011 10:24
I have been windsurfing for a long time and use to bag out kitesurfing. But the last few weeks I have been kiteing and LOVE it.
I will still keep my windsurfer rig for the stronger days,but will be kiteing more than sailing from now on.Never thought I would say this but kiteing is so much better in the waves.

PS - only found out today that Waveslave's first name is Pete.

At least whoever did it is a creative c0ckhead

And at least now I know what the hell lotofwind is on about. When I read it there was about 10 comments