If pole-gear came in a nice small package like kitesurfing....
would anybody really bother with kiting ??
Ahh but you can get them:http://detroit.craigslist.org/boa/605035710.html
The trouble with this blow-up toy,
just like blow-up kites, and blow-up dolls....
is that they're toys.
Lol
I gotta admit I do look on the kiting fraternity with some envy when I see them rock up an a sedan pop the boot and theres 3 sails, 2 boards and all the kit they need in there.
Yeah but,.. with all those teeny weeny itsy bitsy little toys, it's too easy to lose stuff.
Check out the 'lost and found' in the kite forum.
Or check out the 'lost' notices at the windsurf/kitesurf beaches.
It's always "LOST Kitesurf board,. blah blah blah,.."
You never see;
"LOST windsurf board. Starboard Carve 111.
Just happened to lose it in the ocean somewhere."
Ha Ha Ha !
Very nice Nebian
Yeah but some toys are more fun than others
Ill take the blow up doll over the windsurfing gear any day evn if its blow up board, mast ,boom what ever
....and by the way, I thought the dudes on the windsurfing boards were the inflatable part,
look for the valve on the back of the head
Yeah kitesurfers have a small package , i mean the kites come compact BUT we don't need 20 metres of beach to launch from..
if I had a kite I'd inflate it with helium or nitrous oxide. for extra lift or a laugh..
yer eazy to carry around, but you still have to pump it up, run those long ass lines out, spend 20 minutes getting the knots out if it wasn't put away exactly right, find someone to help you get it in the air if you don't want to drag your new kite across the beach, but putting it in the car is way eazier.
i haven't met a kiter yet that doesn't have so much gear in the car that he can barely see out the back window.
1 kite might be compact but 3 kite bags in a line is the same size as an entire quiver of windsuring kit. (less boards)
Agree with Simpson, if you have roof racks/ a station wagon/panel van/ute, which you usually do being a windsurfer, it takes just as short to get everything in and out of your vehicle as if it were kiting stuff (couple more minutes to tighten straps on your roofracks maybe). The indeed rigging can be done in 5 minutes no worries, plus you never have to spend an evening undoing knots in your lines.
Also with kiting you have to make sure all these tiny bits and pieces are in good operating condition, such as the safety relaese system, lines going everywhere (I had the safety release plastic thing you pull or push break in half once). Also your bladders, it must be a nightmare if you have the octopus system to find the leak, take them out and fix them... For these reasons I believe a kite is far less durable than a windsurf sail, hence you have to renew your gear often, and the poor guy who bought your stuff second hand has to cop it on the chin if something goes wrong...
Windsurfing kit on the other hand sure is a little bulkier, but consists on 5 main parts:
-mast
-sail
-base
-boom
-board
The base tendon is pretty much the only thing you have to monitor over a long period of time, even if that fails theres usually a little strap or rope that will keep your sail on the deck..
Other then that all issues with both equipments are similar: sail/kite tears, board repairs essentially.
Of course if ur in hardcore stuff you'll be more likely to replace your mast/kite more often.
From there i believe windsurfing keeps its simplicity very well.
Kiting is just easier to learn, as a result some people might go the easy way (far enough), afterwards seeing it as "more fun".
Not sure I'd run with any of Mr Slaves theories. He's paying out on people with trailers while he's rocking up at the beach with his 40 foot bus and his wife has to bring down the Mitsubishi express to fit in what ever doesnt fit in the bus. So I'm not really sure where he's going with the cluster f.u.c.k theory.
And, who takes all of their gear with them each sess anyway. I only ever pack about 1/4 of my gear, which fits in the car easy squeezy
All the sarcasm aside, as an ex windsurfer I do apreciate the ease of transport compared with windsurfing gear.
Going back through some previous posts from long ago it seems Mr Slave likes to bait the area and then wait to see what happens.
It also seems he is not as angry as he used to be... medication maybe ?
A good thing perhaps... definite little man syndrome or sure
So Waveslave
How come you drive a great big bus a few hundred meters to the beach
Deano
If polesurfing was made any more simpler than it already is then no one would be tea bagging
Keep it the way it is to keep the @#$%heads out of the sport
Go on everyone, Give me the thumbs down, I asked for it
Looks like kiting may soon have its own beach or be restricted. Of course then the issue of how much kit you have will be a small one by comparison. I hope that windsurfing doesn't get dragged down with it.
www.perthnow.com.au/
City of Joondalup deputy mayor Russ Fishwick said: "We have a designated horse beach and a designated dog beach, so perhaps we have to think about a designated kite-surfing beach.''
But what will it be called, I suggest Puppet Zone but open to ideas.
"Windsurfing has been cancelled" is going to look a little ironic, no?
PS "Cockburn" tee he he he
Hey kite boarders! A lot of you wearing your boardies over the top of your wetsuits looks like you are trying to copy wake boarders and they are huge posers too. A lot of people who roller blade do that with their spandex and boardies also. “Kite blade” Could be the next thing when you go down the local skate park and invade a lot of space while expecting the skaters who have been their for ages to give way to you too.
