Amazing how many spectators appear to be there.
However I'm more impressed with a ramp design that allows a board with a large fin to go over it.
only once kiting becomes as boring as windsurfing apparently...My God that was lame..quadruple fist pumps for a flat water one eighty...are they stuck that far back? the only thing remotely watchable was the wakestyle ramps and thats just kiting anyway... I only watched the first two minutes(it was all I could bear) but if any windsurfer has any decent argument as to why such an obscene amount of time and money was wasted on building this venue and staging thhis event id sure like to hear it...
apparently this was the entertainment during a refreshment break, at a barry manilow concert.
Remember seeing that in the early 90's and thought it was the gayest thing I'd seen at that time.......
I'm afraid 20 years later I still view this as the gayest thing I've seen .
If anyone try's doing that with kitesurfing they need an uppercut.
Fortunately, the physical characteristics of a kite rig and the space required to fly them in, pretty much precludes any sort of event like this being set up for kiters. Windsurfers can get away with a bank of fans at water level, we would need a 20+ metre high bank of the things, plus extra for any air time to make it feasible.
As to IKW777's post, there are plenty of jaw dropping videos of kite surfers in waves in nuking conditions in the Canary Islands. I am looking forward to the day when windsurfers can complete their aerials and not smash down into the water, but hit it at speed and go straight in to another trick.
