Kitesurfing is about as extreme as scuba diving. If you're deep diving or wreck diving, it gets pretty extreme, if you're pottering around in 10m of water on a tropic reef, its not extreme.
Thats the beauty of this sport. I can go out in 35 knots on my 7m and do so safely while some nutter is pushing the limits and sitting on the edge.
Kite surfing with the right training and equipment for task extremely safe.
kite surfing in 40 knot winds with the chicken loop around your nut sack now thats extreme we all know were I am going with this! Having sex when your 80 smacked up on Coke and Viagra with a heart condition now thats extreme. were do we stop any situation any sport its all just in the application
Nice replies you mob.
Outside the emotions I think this is a valid topic. IMO extreme is a word/label used so often today as to have absolutely no practical meaning anymore. It's like 'adventure tourism'. Or - 'expeditions'. What a laugh. You see coaches trundle by full of the elderly heading up north with ' so and so adventures' on the side. I'm sure the people on the tour are having a great time, possibly an adventure at their age, and I'd hate to denigrate the 'elderly' but in reality this is hardly a real 'adventure'. So too with Extreme sports. It's a marketing tool and also an ego trip for some. KS a case in point. Some people in the forum have pointed out and rightly so that KS can become extreme. I agree, but the point IMO is that true extreme sports are sports that take a significant BASELINE skill to enter the sport, not a sport that anyone can start and make 'extreme' by doing insane/stupid things. Almost anyone can start kite surfing. They may not get to the point where their actions are 'extreme' but they can happily be a kite surfer.
There's numerous sports where this is not the case. No matter how much you want to do it you just don't have the physique, temperament - whatever to succeed. And they're dangerous. Not just dangerous if you do the wrong thing but dangerous even if you do the right thing. These are extreme sports.
So to fuel the fire again, those in this forum who think they are some sort of superhuman extreme sport dude just because they kite surf should get a real life and stop playing with miss palmer. Those who love the sport for what it is and accept all that enter the sport (mutually of course) have a far healthier attitude. If you resent being one of the crowd then do a real extreme sport and stop bitching...
you seem to be the one doing the bitching...
there doesn't ever seem to be a question of extremities here (except maybe by tools using go joes)
its always been more about respect of the people and places being infiltrated by selfish dunces searching for the quick thrill
so go pull your sweetriff some place a bit more extreme
I agree with the initial post -
Kelly Slater is not extreme. Maybe if he wins pipe again he will be.
Or maybe if he takes up Kite Boarding.
streetsp00ff its probably not the sport 4 u then
best go jump off a building or have unsafe sex at the gra
this banter is better than the sunday mail anyway. I'm getin a chuckle out of it!
