Since discovering the sport of kitesurfing, it has taken over almost every aspect of my life. I used to have some savings in the bank, instead i have seven kites, four boards, five harnesses, and no savings. In less than a year!
It is like a drug. The wind is my 'fix', I just cannot wait for the next 'hit'.
My query is, does this condition, this fixation ever abate? Will the 'novelty' of kitesurfing wear off?
Five harnesses?? You joking? That's more gear than a pro needs. Maybe you should seek counselling. It look's like your passion or sickness got nothing to do with kiting
Is it perhaps replacing a shoe fettish Dorothy?
Put down the Credit Card and step away from the salesman!
Why so many harnesses? now that is unusual!!!. hehehe...
Does the need for a fix abate? not really. sort of.
For my 4 months in I think I can justify 2 kites 1 board 1 harness 2 wetsuits, 3 kite bikinis and 3 magazine subscriptions.. however I literally have NO money in the bank either (being at uni full time doesnt help), and there used to be at least some lol!
Now I get itchy when the trees start to move
, always hungry for more wind 
and cannot wipe the smile of my face for a few days after a good sesh...
Sometimes I wonder what I was doing before I started kiting haha
well i've been addicted since 2004, and the addiction is finally subsiding , but just a little.
I would be much more successful, and a lot wealthier if it wasnt for kitesurfing.
But i wouldnt change it. Im probably a lot healthier.
I still get very excited by green arrrows , and a kite. But I dont obsess as much if its windy. ie - im not a miserable sod if its windy and I have to be somewhere else.
Ive been at it for nearly 2 years and have 1 kite, 1 board, 1 Harness and 1 Wetsuit
But am saving dollars for a significant Kiteupgrade 
Happy Kiting 
Well it all depends on whether the harnesses for your daughter and girlfriend are REALLY for them - or are they actually yours and you're doing a bit of creative accounting.
Or did you buy them a whole heap of gear so you can justify your own purchases.
Or are you trying really hard to get them involved in something you love so that you don't get in trouble for spending all your free time at the beach.
Any of those would indicate a problem.
I get really short tempered and kinda sihty when its windy and i know i cant go, cause of other restaints.
But once i get my fix, it can sometimes hold me off for a few days.
I guess thats the life of a typical junkie.....
I have a wife and two kids, and they know that when there is wind all else stops. They know I am happier, more at ease with the world, and generally more fun to be around when I have been kiting or surfing. I am one of the luckier dudes though, my wife has never held me back from surfing in all our 27 years together. I slowed down when my kids were small because I wanted to be around them, not because I was told I had to. Time with your kids goes like a blink of an eye, and then they are adults or late teenagers who don't want to spend time with the family. Then its time to ramp up the surfing/ kiting again.
I also made it a mission to go on surf trips with my family, and nobody complained ever. My kids loved Fiji and Mexico every time we went. I just made sure that it wasn't surf 24/7, and that we have family time.
Learning to kite a few years ago has given me such a new stoke that has combined everything I love about the ocean....I feel for anyone who marries a girl who does not realize how important the ocean is to us who feel at ease in that world...
Of course when you ask that question, is it either a addiction or sickness. I'll have to say both! All the comments above can argue both those words.
In the end of the day, its your life and if it isn't hurting anybody then so be my addiction and sickness for this awesome Sport
See you all out there Wind Junkies
My five cents,
53 Years old. Healthy, self employed, have a great business a wonderful staff, married 29 years, two sons (just getting one of them into kiting)
If its windy Im kiting full stop. My family and staff know and put up with me, as l put in after the sesh. Addicted, If its windy I am on the water.
My work car is always full of kiting stuff, just in case. I have 5 kites (not all in the car at once) and 3 boards, 2 harnesses and 2 wetsuits.
Addicted to seabreeze (thanks great website) and green arrows.
Have a hot Monaro, a fabulous Ducati.
I have been much healthier since I have started kiting and have a very basic fitness routine just to keep fit for when it is windy and therefore better off for it.
You could say living the dream, I do. Not bragging but very lucky to be in this situation
Thanks to all the forum input, from the amount of posts (positive ones, the negative ones **** me) some folks are way more addicted tham me.
The local crew at our kiting spot are sensational
Looking great today in Adelaide so took the day off to enjoy the wind.
See you out on the water.
Thanks Jim
So the moral of the story is wear a condom if you want to kite every time its windy.
Hi my name is Ben and I am a kiteoholic, this is my story:
Once upon a time I knew nothing of kitesurfing, ignorant of the wind and its possibilities... lived in mountains and had no heart for the sea...
I moved to Greece where the Meltemi blows the summer days away drunk my weight away and was enabled in the dark art of mastering winds aplenty.
Then enabling others... i then tried surviving without it living inland, looking out the window behind my desk for any breeze,
For the wind to call my name again. I dreamed of it and nothing had any taste as sweet as a windy hot day spent on a 9 cruising the seas...
Got dumped by my sweet booty as my head was away in latitudes unknown looking forward to the next spot with constant breeze.
Not minding, envisaging being in any place called home for my heart for earthly pleasures was dead... I had a career but it meant none so that too was gone.
Picked up my bag and traveled again, Africa, Australia. I've lost myself in my demise from promising beginnings to looking desperately at forecast on Seabreeze.
Wondering when will hit the next squall, chatting nonsense and gear waiting for the wind to arise and in its glorious mercy embrace me in it's loving arms.
it's so bad the addiction it must be terminal, never have I in anything, been so lyrical.
Passion or sickness,a bit of both l think,l do get excited when the wind picks up knowing the amount of joy that this can provide,actually it's more of a addiction...
... addiction for sure.
What happens to you when you don't get a kite ... ?
Do you get angry at nothing,,,,, do you twitch at a leaf blowing past you, do you constantly stare up at the sky looking at trees, do you intently shoosh everyone when the forcast is being read on TV.... do you speed in the car when you think there is wind...??
All signs of addiction!!!
Watch what happens when you go away on holidays and you haven't had any wind for a week,,, people start doing crazy things like sup'ing!!!
Can passion be turned off,,, can addiction be turned off???
Yep, its an addiction!
Ad-dic-tion: noun. The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
It is an addiction, after 10 years tho, you get a bit picky about it.
You realise there is more to life, you only turn up when you know it's on.
There are fewer times when you stand there on the beach trying to convince yourself
that it's worth getting wet. You're still at the beach tho, cause you just never know, maybe seabreeze got it wrong, maybe there's something wrong with the wind meter and its underreading or a giant is standing in front of it or its got a plastic bag wrapped around it, maybe those yellow arrows should be green, maybe there's a massive reverse sweep and it's kiteable anyway, and you're the only one missing out cause you didn't actually go and check, maybe there are kites everywhere, maybe its about to come in, besides you've got the day off the kids are at school, the wife's at work, you load up the car, to go check, just in case, 6 things you need to go kiting, kite, board, bar and lines, harness, pump...what's the 6th...can't remember...wind.
It took a while, but she realises now, when its on, I mean really on, it doesn't matter what's happening, it's where I'll be and what I'll be doing, once you reach that point, harmony returns or she's already left you....
Some real time input. Currently sitting watching my 4 and 5 yr old at the local skate park. Wind is blowing decent swell but had 6 epic days in a row at exmouth and 3 days here and I am ready to announce I also bought a SUP. just told a friend who I surf with and he said he's never talking to me again. Lol. But as I see it in the morning when I'm with the kids and wife down beach can sup take kids out even try and get my wife on it. Good luck with that!
I also have a small ozone trainer kite that I put up with the kids. Starting to eye off a small inflatable bit they don't have the ability yet to make decisions when things go wrong. But for the most part they are holding it up themselves. Even looping it. That gives me a big buzz.
You guys have weak wills Kite addiction huh what a load of s----------Hangon is that the wind picking up UMMM I have got to go and do something
perfectly normal
