kitesurfers wakeboarding aarrghhhh!

[sim]

Originally Posted by destroyer

Kitesurfing - 90% kite skills - 10% board skills
wakeboarding - 100% board skills

i think you already answered your own question dude.
if a big gust of wind will take you 60ft in the air, where's the board skills? (rhetorical)

[destroyer]

Originally Posted by sim

i think you already answered your own question dude.
if a big gust of wind will take you 60ft in the air, where's the board skills? (rhetorical)

diddent ask a question dude, what i am stating is that in kitesurfing there is so much more to just riding a board i.e only 10% of the sport, there is so much more to kitesurfing than wakeboarding, im not dissing wakeboarding at all, its a great sport (when theres no wind )

[Blondeair]

Hey Sim from Alliance, Mike from blondeair here. I cant be bothered to start an argument that should really read..."kitesurfers 90% geeks, 10% ok!" If you know what I mean?
I could do with having a chat with you for a few things for the mag if that's cool? What's the best number to get you on?

[Haggis]

haven't check this post in a while, so got to defend my point now.

Originally Posted by northernmonkey

Haggis, the person that made the original post said that all comments on the riding were welcome. yeah ok i had a bit of a kitesurfer attack but as someone else said, ending his post with-"We don't see any wakeboarders nailing it with a kite..." was never going to get a pro kite surf response.

I never wanted a pro kite-surf response, more of a just open your eyes and look at the good bits, rather than attack the bad.

Originally Posted by northernmonkey

if you knew me you would know that i could care less whether people dressed like a cliche (or clique depending on whether you can spell or not)

before correcting my spelling get a dictionary. cliche and clique are different words, like dog and cat, you'll come to them next lesson I guess.

Originally Posted by northernmonkey

"I have never personally had a go at kiteboarding, but I think a funnier video would be some of you previous posters having a go at some of the things I've seen of their sport, then we could stand around laughing at you too..."
i agree with you but if the no1 wakeboarder in the UK had a go at kitesurfing and it looked like either of those video clips, then i can guarantee that they wouldn't have posted it on here.

yeah, I believe you. But I'm presuming these kite boarders aren't quite as proud as wakeboarders, so they don't mind exposing their weaknesses in order to try and build more cross-sport bridges.

[northernmonkey]

Haggis sorry mate to diss your spelling when you were using a whole other word on purpose and not just using the wrong word. you obviously have an opinion of how "wakeboarders" dress but i just think cliche would be a better word to describe a "way of life" or a style of dress and clique would be better to describe the group of people carrying out that way of life but its your sentence so i guess you can word it how ever you want.
Blondeair my sarcasm maybe was wasted there but whatever, i'm sure kite surfing is a real boardsport after all you are standing side ways on a board, but i didn't say that your boardsport only involved 10% board skills, some other guy did and yeah wakeboarding does involve a boat or a cable and no that doesn't make it as pure as surfing or skating but until the wakeboarder has to spend 90% of his skill driving the boat while he is riding, i would say that yes it is a board sport.
anyway i'm sure if my business partner can take constant stick about his kite BOARDING and still be chilled about it then you will get over a couple of sarcastic internet posts....
oh and it's not my shop but thanks anyway

[northernmonkey]

oh and for the record my kiting buddy does give me an unbelievable amount of stick for being towed by a petrol guzzling boat as opposed to using "natures clean engine" and a kite, but i don't let it get to me because its just friendly rivalry. He says we need a boat 'cos our board skills can't cope with the unpredictability of something like wind, personally its just because when you fall the boat comes back for you and i like that.
i've never seen him tame the wind enough to get it to do that.