Actually this isn't a wind up. I am seriously curious.....Why do people wear boardies over their wetsuit?
To me it looks comical....kind of like a cartoon character wearing clothes.
Everyone to their own, just curious!!
Why does Batman where is underpants on the outside of his pants.........?
I'm just saying.........
I wear board shorts over my tube suit.
Never over my steamer.
The tube suit rides and my "package" sticks out wayyyyy to much. If people are interested I want them to look at my kiting not my potato package.
i never used to wear boardies over wettie... but one day my wettie got a huge rip right through the middle of the stitching around the arse section..., and as i didn't have time nor spare cash for a new wettie, i had no choice but to wear boardies over it...
I bought a new wettie since then so all back to normal now...
I wear boardies over wetty and then 2 loose wetshirts..... I t lets your harness slide very quickly from side to side giving you much the same resut as a sliding spreader bar. Its great for wave riding. If i put a harness straight over a wetty it grips it and can tear the wetty eventually. I''ll always ride in boardies and the double wetshirt even without a wetty. don't try and paddle surf this way though; you'll be sliding all over your board as you paddle.
I like it when people wear 3/4 pants over their wetsuits. It's getting rarer now, but it really funny.
Sooty- great analogy - "like a cartoon character wearing clothes"
I think they look OK over a shortie wettie (bit odd over a steamer), and I wear them also coz I like the pocket. I generally start off with SeaSpecs on coz I hate the glare on sunny days, but take 'em off pretty soon after I'm on the water. Pocket comes in handy then...
I also think men parading around the beach in wetties is almost as bad as cyclists walking about in Lycra LOL!
I guess it's a fashion thing- some think it looks better than not wearing them. Like helmets for example- you all know that a helmet is in principle a damned good idea for anyone of any level of ability kiting, but what percentage of us wear them? Why? Coz they dunnae look ***cool***
is it only during the wrong time of the month???
when aunty ruby is in town??
I'm sure this could be quite embarrassing.
Well for me as a female I don't want to get that camel toe look after being out on the water as the wettie rides up haha, have seen this for myself on another chick one day and thought to myself, hmm, I think I'll wear boardies over mine!!
whats the hardest thing about wearing your boardies over your wettie?
telling your parents your gay
It started a decade or more ago, kiters didn't want to look like windsurfers. Bit similar to snowboarders and skiers...
Personally I think a tight wetsuit looks about as camp as a cyclist in lycras, but each to their own... Borat swimsuit, commando, doesn't bother me what others wear, just live and let live!
Try telling Kelly Slater that he looks like a tool for parading around on the beach in a wetsuit, or telling Alberto Contodor that he looks gay in lycras. I am sure he will laugh at your suggestion of wearing baggies, then leave you for dust as he sprints of as you looking cool with your baggies hanging over your butt, rubbing on everything, and getting caught up. Sure, you will look cooler when standing around, but not when it counts.
I have a theory, Guys that complain about boardies over
weties ride push bikes for exercise and like looking at your 3 piece set.
All is explained here.....
www.kiteboardingmag.com/how-to/2005/08/03/avoid-having-your-beach-look-like-a-sausage-factory/
The only sensible reason I can think of is that in the early days guys would ride wakeboards with boots.
The kites were super unstable and the boots were hard to get into. You had to sit on the beach and get your boots done up, without crashing your two line kite, then buttskuttle into the water. Probably damaging your wettie on shells on the way.
All the pictures I have seen of wakeboarding shows guys riding with long baggy shorts on. I don't know if that has always been the fashion for them. I guess bum launching from a pontoon could be rough on a wetsuit. Add to that "cool" kids being dragged around behind daddy's boat might be a bit self-conscious about being seen in a wetsuit.
