A kitesurfer walks into a shop. He has not kiteboarded for 6 years due to work and marital commitments. He wishes to get a new board , as he still has his old kites. The salesman shows him the latest greatest double concave 6'2' thruster tufflite monster. "How much is that" he asks. Its on pre season special at $1000-00 says the salesman. Its what everyones riding this season. Looks pretty big to me for a kiteboard, says the customer. Can I get huge airs on this. No, these boards are not for jumping. If you break it on jumping, you will lose the warrantee. The customer is astonished and shocked. " A kiteboard that doesnt jump, I thought thats what kiteboarding was all about.BIG FAT Air. "No , says the salesman. Where have you been? Jumping a kiteboard is totally uncool. Go to any of the beaches, you will not see anyone doing big jumps- totally uncool. Surfing is cool. We even get surfers to judge our contests these days. The customer says. Surfers dont get air. They get excited if they pull off a single back loop. Ive seen a video of Laird doing a double, but that was at the edge of a Jaws monster. What happened to the 30 ft triple back loop with a board off. NO -very uncool. The surfers and wakeboarders say so.
These boards over here are more your style. They are designed for low altitude jumps and tricks, you know, a bit like wakeboarding, but make sure you dont jump high because the other riders will think you're uncool and quite mad. No says the customer. I want a board to ride waves and jump. After some thought the salesman says- I have just the board for you and shows him the latest range of windsurfers.

Lol that was good

I like 3x backroll boardoffs! and i bet if you did one at 90% of the beaches in australia even the wakestyle guys would think it was pretty cool....

Hey dont knock the heavy boards mine ways close to 15kg

How profound !!!!!
You can actually jump into the sky with these kites ?
I was wondering about that, why would any one kite surf , if you can rip and slash far better on a windsurfer.
Seem like all these guys on heavily reiforced surf boards are fashion victims.

Ray

i hope not; it doesnt take many kites to crowd a lineup, i reckon we should be discouraging surfers from taking up kiting
although the ones i have tried to teach have packed it in as soon as they realise its a lot harder than it looks