Ok, this one is doing my head in, help me out.

I've just been kiting this season and a bit last. My background is snow boarding, surfing, bit of wake boarding, skating etc.

Here it is:

Why the phuck do Kiters wear tshirts and boardies over their wet suits and/or rashies??????

It seems totally mindless to me, as well as looking weird, and making it harder to move, and easier to get hooked up on your gear.

I'm sticking to wetty only, no matter what, but have been really wondering about this one.

Let's hear it.

as for fashion, well i have a nice pair of brown shoes that match my nice brown jacket. They were designed circa 1978. I think they're fashionable, cause whenever i wear them i always generate a number of jealous stares.
But when i have worn them kiting, they get all wet and soppy.
I cant stand that squidgy feeling of wet soppy brown shoes.

i wear boardies over my wettie cause it makes me look less like a fat ballerina in a bondage suit

Yeah there's something about the skin tight wetsuit look that just doesn't appeal to me, When kiting you suffer more from wind chill & you don't need to be so sleek & have a skin tight wetty to get through the water cuz most of the time your above the water.

It's different when your surfing because a lot of the time your paddling & in the water & dont need the extra drag of clothing on top.

I think a bright shirt & boardies help you look less like an injured seal being draged around the water to any sharks, Especially if you have an all black wetsuit.

As a snowboarder would you wear skin tight clothes while snowboarding?
Or a nice big jacked & baggy pants?

It's just a personal preference thing, i guess we are trying to keep warm from the wind chill but also trying to maintain our own identity.

I wear boardies over my wetsuit to hide my enormous figs

I just cant handle the stares anymore

maybe it is so we don't look like windsurfers.

You gotta admit skin tight suits look totally gay

Why do people put mags on cars?

It is usually always the oldies that can't relate to change.

I admit some people go way overboard, last year had a swiss guy with a bright red flame shirt and white pants

Looked like he was going clubbing.

Unless you're one of the pioneers of the sport, everyone has been influenced by the whole fashion thing in kiting Unless you're flyin a 2 liner and ridin a bigass directional you too are following fashion trends just not in the clothing sense. Whateva you do in the sport it should be your own vibe I change **** all the time and as long as I like it that's all that counts I gotta be honest I get influenced by fashion a bit - otherwise I'd be gettin around in some Big W Stubbies instead of boardshorts - they're both functional the stubbies just make you look like a retard

Its not FASHION its ANTIFASHION

This old gem of a topic!! We have it every year, some geeza knocking peoples personal styles.

I too am guilty of the boardies over wetsuit thing, I wanna try and look good out on the water, just like when you go out for the night, you put on your best kit.

When you got long skinny legs like mine you can look pretty goofy in a tight wetsuit. Wait for winter then I get to bust out my long baggy pants!!!

google for kite pants...

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Originally posted by hi fliya

When you got long skinny legs like mine you can look pretty goofy in a tight wetsuit.

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yeah you do have long skinny legs Lance !

regards browneee

How about let your kiting do the talking?

"You gotta admit skin tight suits look totally gay"

Your quote siwalker.

Say that to Ian Thorpe and Cathy Freeman.

To be sure Boardshorts are great in summer it has to be said, but sadly the old velcro will give up the ghost sooner or later.

Happened to my Irish mate Scotty as he tracked his gear up wind on Cottesloe beach last year. Convinced all the chicks were staring at his fine, kiting honed torso, he sucked his gut in a little............then a little more..........they were still staring...... so he sucked it in all the way..........only then could he see that the bird had fallen from the nest..........yes his Manhood was on display...and it wasnt the warmest of days dont you know...............Sorry Scotty.

we use to wear bordies over out wetsuits when i use to sail, cause the non-slip surface on the sides of the boat chomped up the neopreme, so it was more for a function, not for looks.

i might try the t-shirt and boardies next time on the water, just so i am not one of those ppl who "knock it before they try it". but i think its strange, especially with a full-length wettie!

Superman used to wear his jocks on the outside.