I was expecting dudes speaking french followed by 5 minutes of car driving footage at the beginning.

Awesome, everyone should get into flat water and flicky tricks, there would be less people in waves

RedDragon said...

Its sort of like watching a pensioner parallel park

I can honestly say I know where your comming from, but I can also honestly say that that is what I think about the majority of kite footage. Cookie cutter styles, no originality, same old tricks... Kiting to me in itself has become stagnant and for the most part super boring to watch. Granted I'm not the best wakeskater or even wakestyler (i hate that word) out there, however I try and put my own twist on things instead of following the norm and going out riding with the sole purpose of doing another spin and landing tricks with 100% consistency.

The real question I believe is what sort of vid (kiting) do you want to watch?...

sebol said...

Awesome, everyone should get into flat water and flicky tricks, there would be less people in waves

Yep-just don't get that stuff with park benches and wearing clothes kiting and.....different strokes for different folks and all that....but sh$t that's boring.

I don't get wearing clothes in general... why isn't everyone naked?

As you said, different strokes for different folks. I'm sure if I had made a vid of just riding waves other people would have been equally bored.

As I said before, if you find this boring (easy to understand why) I don't mind you saying so, but perhaps give some indication of what you think should be changed or what sort of video you would rather see. I'm interested to hear what floats different peoples boats.

p.s.@ Sebol, of course that is the desired location ("bodyboarders do it" - Toby B) However I also don't wanna post up the decent shots.

Who said anything about 3 page reports?... Yes I am picky, hell I am even picky about my own stuff. (I don't honestly rate anything I did in this video that highly myself). All I wanted to get out of people was an indication of what they would like to see/ watch in a video... Is that to much to ask? Or are we all just down for the homogeneous TV culture of one-way communication? (yes I am aware I have perhaps just used an Oxymoron by using the term "one-way communication").

p.s. I don't think you understand me at all if you think I much prefer wakeboarding. And for the record I don't think "kiting looks gay", I do however think that kiteboarding (and the surrounding industry) for the most part is totally wack.

sir ROWDY said...

I don't get wearing clothes in general... why isn't everyone naked?

As you said, different strokes for different folks. I'm sure if I had made a vid of just riding waves other people would have been equally bored.

As I said before, if you find this boring (easy to understand why) I don't mind you saying so, but perhaps give some indication of what you think should be changed or what sort of video you would rather see. I'm interested to hear what floats different peoples boats.

p.s.@ Sebol, of course that is the desired location ("bodyboarders do it" - Toby B) However I also don't wanna post up the decent shots.

my girlfriends and I always kite naked.

wakekiting, wakestyle sounds like a womans haircut.
nice homely vid alex :)

These vids are the sort of thing I like to watch, Sean is definitely having fun and ripping.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/Top-Hat-video/

There were a few bits in your vid I liked but I did walk away from it about 2/3rds of the way through, sorry!
The wave pic is excellent, and the knockers would not be saying anything about being further to the right if the shot was taken approx 1 second later.

more talking, flashes, pull ups, flails and gangster sh!t is needed i think. that would make the video more watchable.

i enjoyed the vid...
even the humour parts...

the only constructive feedback would be that eventually it started to seem that similar or same scenes are being repeated... so it could have been a bit shorter... otherwise fun

Cheers fellas! I was waiting for someone to notice the kook in the background haha.
I have to agree that it does seem a bit repetitive although i didn't repeat any scenes (most flat water skate tricks all look pretty similar). If given half the chance I would have liked to hit a few more spots and a few different rails and features. I would have really like to do some filming in wave kickers, I find I like to watch that the most and it gives you the option to do different tricks.

p.s. There weren't actually any out takes on the table. It was pretty close later on though when we were shooting stills in pitch black with the table banked up on the sand dune. I clipped my nose on the front but still managed to ride it out somehow.

stabber said...
my girlfriends and I always kite naked.

Who wants to kite naked with stabber?



poor girls

Sandgate, saftey bay, the pine.

You could actually understand that? I thought it was jibberish.