The day that someone on here becomes even close to the best in the PKRA is the day i would take there opinion serious. It's so easy to judge and compare someone to someone else but whats the point. He has obviously worked hard to get were he is so all the baggers may as well put up or shut up. The PKRA judges have there own criterior for what they expect from the riders and he came out on top. It's like watching Bathurst and having someone winning for most of the race to crash out in the last laps. As long as your on top at the end you must have done something right to be there. As for Hadlow he is an awesome rider but wasn't in the race so docent count. How many guys around the world are ripping at the moment but haven't or don't want to be in the spot light. You may as well compare all of them to him as well.

bjw said...

No one cares about the PKRA.

well said. We had an aussie win on gold coast just few hrs drive away from here. Didnt even recieve a mention on the news apart from kiters no one knew it was on. Y dont the public embrace it would b a better arguement than if yates win was soft or not

anyone remember steven bradbury? Now that was a soft win

Bradbury ran a very strategic race, that trip wire was genius

i wasnt taking offence to comments i think that mag sounds like a bunch of wankers. Isnt the bigger picture that general publics got no idea who yates is or the pkra

we all know tiger woods who plays the most boring sport in the world, maybe yates needs a sex scandal
everyones doin it these days nrl afl cricket. Come on yates take one for the team

Pffft....
People compare me to Hadlow all the time.

Tommy123 said...
anyone remember steven bradbury? Now that was a soft win

Not so sure about that
A lot of years of hard work went into getting there and he made it into the last race that had the top 5 or 6 in the world, not a bad effort in anyones books

azbree said...

does andy compare to that hadlow vid?

who cares dude about comparing...
Andy is world champion and thats it- if Hadlow has the balls then he can come back and challenge Andy, if not then no need to compare the 2!

Basta!

Spacemonkey! said...

Regardless of the reason, Andy has full right to say f-u to iksurf. Every kiter worth his salt knows it is a piece of sh/t mag, and by supporting mags like these they are not doing the sport any favors long term. If you still doubt Rou Chater is a rookie then perhaps read the email I sent in 2008, it's entitled: Your latest mag is....

Me
Shi/t house

Rou

Hi Tom,

Is that sh/t house as in good or bad? If good great, if bad maybe some feedback might help us improve. Let me know.

Cheers Rou

Me
F/ucken sh/t house

not sure what point you are making but you dont come across too wise in that correspondence.
Personally I think Rou's mag is the best Kitesurf mag out there, but there is not much in lines of competition.

It's been discussed to death,

The editor has no idea about kitesurfing (what's good/bad)
He feeds off scraps, basically semi pro kiters whoring themselves out to get some coverage.
The photos themselves are all freebies, either donated by riders or by mag sponsors.
You pay for what you get, and the content is very average. In the day and age of the Internet I could just google search and find better pics. Unfortunately there is little money in the kiting industry so that means that pro photographers who actually are skilled at what they do find it much harder to get their stuff published from the mags who do actually pay. I don't want to read a mag that is a thinly veiled advert. There is no soul in IKSURF.

haha this articles about hadlow yet everytime i mention hadlow every1s like who cares whos best what the **** do freestylers in your country talk about only aussie riders god forbid discussing whos the best if the people considered aint all aussies ,get your heads out of your arses yates is a dangle master ,just cause you win dont make you the best ,oh **** sorry yates is aussie so he must be the best lol

stereo types are hardly ever rite but this 1 could well be