i had style once.. then i learnt how to unhook.

sir ROWDY said...

what?? a trick with style? i haven't got an inch of style. 6'3ft of pure claim.

I don't even claim!! I just point and say "I was his instructor!"

jammin said...

Looks fluid, looks BIG, looks powered, looks hard, gets my vote on style too. Havn't seen many local Aussie riders doing anything near as good as that.

Whats not to like?

I think AH is still at the top of the game and working hard to stay there.

All the haters out there- please back up your comments with a video clip of yourself doing something gnarly. Put some cred behind your whinging.

I might do it myself- got some pretty uninspiring video of alot of you punks riding this season!

Are you for real???

p.s. Maybe you havent seen many local aussies doing that becaause they are smart enough to know it looks crap. I for one am proud of australia because i think we are the leading country when it comes to pushing the sport with style and one day i think we will get the recognition for that (we already do from some people).

p.p.s im sure there are some pretty uninspiring vids of the man himself as well... actually im positive there is because ive seen them. so what.

jammin said...

Looks fluid, looks BIG, looks powered, looks hard, gets my vote on style too. Havn't seen many local Aussie riders doing anything near as good as that.

Whats not to like?

I think AH is still at the top of the game and working hard to stay there.

All the haters out there- please back up your comments with a video clip of yourself doing something gnarly. Put some cred behind your whinging.

I might do it myself- got some pretty uninspiring video of alot of you punks riding this season!

I think AH is brilliant, but I agree with the so called "haters" here. Wakestyle aside, he starts off with a hooked in backroll, thats already not a KGB. Its good, but its still not what he says it is.

Am I for real..??..? A video gets posted of a guy doing a fully lit hooked to unhooked grabbed kiteloop to handle pass and you think thats crap?

And you think that the average Ozzy rider can do it but doesn't because it looks crap???

Mate- you are dillusional!

I for one am proud of australia because i think we are the leading country when it comes to pushing the sport with style and one day i think we will get the recognition for that (we already do from some people).


Please post a video clip of yourself or your progressive world leading mates on here so we can see what it is you are trying to say. I am keen to learn more about real style and power- I always looked up to the world leaders like AH for that. but it seems I'm looking in the wrong place. All you need to do is post a quick clip on here... Action speak louder than words- and **** me but you got a lot of words!!


As for naming the trick- I trust a professional board rider to come up with a suitable name for it. Lets not forget this is a guy who spends his full time job riding, all over the world with other pro board riders, He's an amazingly good cable and wake rider too. He lives his life for kiteboarding- if he wants to call it a KL grabbed KGB then he has earned the cred to do it. Which rule book or definition source are you guys working from when you say its not a KGB?

Can't wait for this super Styley progressive video clip!!

Educate us Sir Rowdy! what is it that you can do so well that eludes the best riders in the world?!!!

I didn't see any loop? He could have grabbed the nose five times if he wanted to while he was hanging up there.

jammin said...

Am I for real..??..? A video gets posted of a guy doing a fully lit hooked to unhooked grabbed kiteloop to handle pass and you think thats crap?

And you think that the average Ozzy rider can do it but doesn't because it looks crap???

Mate- you are dillusional!

I for one am proud of australia because i think we are the leading country when it comes to pushing the sport with style and one day i think we will get the recognition for that (we already do from some people).


Please post a video clip of yourself or your progressive world leading mates on here so we can see what it is you are trying to say. I am keen to learn more about real style and power- I always looked up to the world leaders like AH for that. but it seems I'm looking in the wrong place. All you need to do is post a quick clip on here... Action speak louder than words- and **** me but you got a lot of words!!


As for naming the trick- I trust a professional board rider to come up with a suitable name for it. Lets not forget this is a guy who spends his full time job riding, all over the world with other pro board riders, He's an amazingly good cable and wake rider too. He lives his life for kiteboarding- if he wants to call it a KL grabbed KGB then he has earned the cred to do it. Which rule book or definition source are you guys working from when you say its not a KGB?

Can't wait for this super Styley progressive video clip!!

Educate us Sir Rowdy! what is it that you can do so well that eludes the best riders in the world?!!!

World champion or not, and irrespective of his skill level (you have to be damn good to win the world championship as many times as he has) you can't change the name of a trick. Most tricks started from wakeboarding, not kiteboarding, for example, the s-bend was named the s-bend by Shannon Best when he was the first person to land it. Shannon Best was a wakeboader at the time, in fact one of the top cable wakeboarders in the world and the trick was landed behind a cable if I remember correctly.

You can't rename a trick simply because you're a world champ. Aaron Hadlow has made this mistake before, he called a trick a boschmosis when wakeboarders had been doing it for years. It has nothing to do with trying to break down a trick or saying its easy enough for everyone to do, it has to do with basic respect for other sports.

SmellySkater said...

I didn't see any loop? He could have grabbed the nose five times if he wanted to while he was hanging up there.

SmellySkater said...

Windsurfing but I will have a go on a kite too at some stage to see what it's like.

SmellySkater said...

Why does it matter how many posts I've sent? Why do I have to kite to be in the kite forum?

You asked why you have to kite to be in the kite forum. Here you are like a chump, not having even flown a kite, and you're bagging the 5 times world champion.

Buy yourself a mirror and have a good look at yourself. In the realms of wankers, you seriously stand alone. Something tells me though that's just what you want.

Apologies for going off topic ladies and gents, but the sea of red thumbs on this strawbs posts don't seem to be getting through his exceptionally thick head.

At the end of the day............ hes paid to do what he loves, has free kites and gear, gets to kite the best places in the world all year, has the exact kite made for him how he wants it and has been responsible for landing many things for the first time in competition trying to push wake as much as poss.

Yeah, his best riding style is with his kite low and doing less spins but making grabs mid-rotation/pass etc. etc. CRANKING out style! But he admitted in interview he needed to change his riding style mid flow of the PKRA last year as judges were still marking him less than kevin who continued pulling off double passes etc. etc. although its actually harder to stall with a grab before rotating and passing. Hes said hes been trying so hard to get the comp scene to go that way but its hard. Its training time, the boys gotta look into new avenues to WIN or get a lead as others are catching up fast. Megaloops with passes could bring back the big air WOW factor to the comp scene that all the public liked whilst maintaining technical difficulty. The comp scene is different to free-ride. A win gives the boy what 20,000 US or whatever each time........ Thats some motivation as it stands.

He can also land his arsenal of moves in any chop, any wind,on any kite size pretty much.......... not just on a flat day on his favourite size when its all going right for him. Hence comps in Fuerte and Tarifa where is goes off!

So unless anyone can post videos getting them a wild card into the pkra, yeah maybe he goofed up the name but i'd know whos skills i'd rather have!

And i dont think he really gives ****...........would you!

You get most of your power after leaving the water on a kiteloop, even on a double up your still edging hard as you come into the wake and shortly after popping from the wake you should lose tension (unless doing something like a raley, s bend etc where your horizontal). It's possible to get inverted because your losing that tension as you pop rather than halfway through the jump. The point I was trying to make though is people saying you need to be inverted to claim a KGB, Mobe.. I don't think that it would even be possible with a megaloop could it?

After the initial yank from a kiteloop you will get slack in the lines, I'm just saying that you will be pulled horizontally from a kiteloop which would make getting inverted impossible as far as I can see. But people have done things which I thought were impossible before, just like Dre's Indy Shifty 3 in Autofocus. Fark that was awesome when that came out, haven't seen anything blow me away like that for awhile.

Man I'm starting to ramble on with BS now lol.

faarkin hell there is alot of bull**** in this thread... seabreeze at it's best, im frothin.


"""Educate us Sir Rowdy! what is it that you can do so well that eludes the best riders in the world?!!!"""

What can i do so well??? i was talking about this countrry as a whole keeping it low and doing it right. When was i talking about myself???, .

In life generally there is an easy way and a hard way to do something, one way gets it done but not real well and prob not for long, and the other way gets the job done right and will be likley to last... much like kiting...
In kiting there is a super easy way and a hard way to do something, the easy way it is gonna take a day to learn, the hard way maybe a week/month/year who knows, the thing is though the trick with style will withstand the test of time, the other will be labeled "gay" prob next pkra stop.

This is where i think aussie kids are leadig the charge, we know what style is and we push towards landing tricks with style instead of landing for the sake of being able to claim a trick (for the most part)

If you need me so badly to post a vid and "educate" you on style bud its not worth my effort, you ethier have an eye for it or you have absolutley no idea and never will... for you i would say the later.

p.s. You can keep checkin the pkra/ kpwt for your daily style fix it's all there for you, dangles, kiteloops, seisures.... worlds best spinning to win with mad style.

p.p.s. i never said hadlow can't ride, he has proved without a doubt that he can and he can do it with style... this just happens to be one of those moments..... bosch... etc.. etc...

I'm just saying that this trick looks cool. I'm all for wakestyle, I've ridden with some of the best wakeboarders in Australia and I'm constantly being blown away by some of the stuff they're doing. I haven't seen that so much with wakestyle in kiteboarding lately. We've got some sick riders in Australia, but nothing on video that makes you think "Fark how did he do that" and rewind and replay over and over just trying to get your head around it.

Hadlow's little video made me do that for the first time in a long time and it was good to see something that looked like mad fun and was something different from the stuff you see every day.

The grab is nothing, I'm not saying that it's stylish or anything. I'm just saying it looks like awesome fun. I just can't believe people can just say "yeah it's a **** dangle pass, try doing a normal KGB it's heaps harder"

Yeah I tend to ramble on with my posts. I just hate it when people put **** on others who are doing a good job. I reckon if you can do something that is more impressive then put your money where your mouth is and post it on the forums and let everyone else decide.

My 2 cents

1st of all self promoting on forums is f@#king gay. (Yes Alex S)
There are a few members on this forum who know Sir Rowdy and his riding capabiltes,personally I would bagg him if obeyed 2 these sh@thouse demands to prove himself. If your that keen to know how he rides do some research. It wouldn't be that hard.

2nd, I too am over people calling tricks something when they are clearly not. It seems alot of riders are too busy trying to get more tricks in the bag rather than doing em properly the 1st time round. Samething not bagging Hadlow cause i am a fan of his powered stuff (In boots) but some1 of such experience should know better.

Bring on the red thumbs

stay tuned ladies and gentlemen.. dont touch that dial.. we'll be right back with more days of our lives, seabreeze edition after the break.....