http://www.continentseven.com/2011/01/16/lord-of-the-wind-2011-pritchard-wins-again/
Great story and funny comments. Funny coz its true.
As the water was more than 10cms deep the kiters had no chance.
Respect where respect is due. KP won. He's a legend. He always was.
There's no mention of the rest of the field. What was the spread over the field? Who came second?
The comments are pathetic. We should take windsurfing and kitesurfing morons and put them in a room together where they can bore each other to death.
Gonna be interesting to see how KP goes in the PWA using Ezzy sails. Great wave sails (pretty cool to have Dave Ezzy personally tune all our sails at Kanaha) but unless they have a full blown race sail in the pipeline kinda hard to see him challenging the likes of Antoine, Bjorn etc.
Best of luck to him anyway, as laid back as you can be
I'm not exactly fond of some kiters (it seems a bit selfish to take up so much space with something that can hurt others) but the comments by windsurfers after that article make me a bit ashamed of our sport.
yeah the comments were a bit ordinary
Now seeing as though the kiters Rotto to Leighton run a month ago was done in about the same time as windsurfers did when the comp was last run (10yrs ago or something) lets make next years half kiters and half windsurfers, 2 ways (return journey like it used to be)
that I want to see.
Nah. I watched a race at Elwood years ago when Jason Polakow first appeared as a rising pro. He crashed mid-course and dicked around and the whole fleet passed him. He then got going and lapped the entire field.
The rider with the most skill wins.
Of course, the kiters beat all the other windsurfers. 
Contrary to what the story says, the competition had registrations from 20-odd windsurfers and around 50 kiters so the field was not totally dominated by kiters. Sure it was 2:1 but not enough to swamp the windsurfers.
None of the "world's best kite racers" had been in the world championship field and none of the top names were there.
I'm guessing apart from Kevin Pritchard and 1-2 other guys the windsurfers were also just keen guys and not top professional racers either.
I haven't seen which kiters were in the showdown race, but the 2010 world champion and the guy who finished second were at the event competing in the kiteracing.
Apart from Adam Koch and Damien leRoy, there was 2009 world champion Sean Farley plus John Heineken and Chip Wasson. If they were all in the race, I would call that a top level field.
Oops! 
Sorry. My mistake. The kitesurf racers were world class. I looked at the wrong results list.
Im dobbing in Mark Aust for his comments re kiting.. Prob would be less stressful..no gear to get crunched in the waves ( unless the kite went down).
^^^^^^Ha Ha BBBBBaaaaahhhh,
I just went and read marks comment,,
He has finally come out of the closet,,,good for you old boy
The kite basher has turned kite lover.
Hope you enjoy kiteing.
^^^^abuse ,WTF are you talking about??????
Im talking about your comments on the web site link thats posted,,,what this topic is about.
I din't make any comments in that link........ I only refer to it here and say that the comments in that link are crap
Must be another mark australia or he is too embarresed to admitt it to you guys.
Anyway when the water is deeper than ankle height, kiters are slower.
Kiting is only faster in one spot in Africa. Everywhere else in the world,ie where 99.9999% of the places to get on the water windsurfing is faster and better.
Dont know why it matters who is the fastest to you guys,,,but,,ok,your faster,,awsome.
At least whoever did it is a creative c0ckhead
And at least now I know what the hell lotofwind is on about. When I read it there was about 10 comments
