Reading through the windsurfers forums I noticed they didnt like us at all. Surely its just a really bad case of jelousy they are trying to compete with us on how many photos we have posted on Seabreeze.com and persist on bad mouthing us.
My question is should we stoop to thier level and be immature aswell??? should we badmouth them???
i know alot of you kiters out there stated on windsurfers but please forget that and join our battle!!!

(remember this is all in the name of good fun)

Haircut said...

don't worry, some of us still love you

looks like we have a bisurfer here... thats what i like to see

Come on be nice ...windsurfers are people too...least i think they are, actually hold that thought!

i place windsurfers with snow skiers, boogie boarders, mal riders, triathletes and various other abberant parallel sport participants

ie people who think they are having fun but are oblivious to where it is really at.

but thats fine, they should stay there and be happy and not bother those who pursue more enlightened pastimes of say kiting, snowboarding, surfing properly etc

they were complaining that you cant take any photos of people hanging from 4 strings... Just out of curiosity what kind of shots can you take of a guy with a pole sticking out of his surfboard???

oh please... why even start this topic. I have a lot of respect for polies, most of them were out carving it up when most of the kitesurfing population hated the wind. The other half are kitesurfers.

FFS Each to there own, show some respect.

Can't blame you for trying pynnee, but unfortunately when it comes to waves, the poleys totally own it. I know it, you know it, and everyone else knows it.

Bolgo described kiters in the waves perfectly with:

"ie people who think they are having fun but are oblivious to where it is really at."

as long as their having fun though.

windsurfing may appear to be a crappy sport compared to kitesurfing but i asure you it is a far more core sport than kitesurfing will ever be. plus it can actually be just as fun as kitesurfing (only you need a hurricane to do it) lol

sir ROWDY said...

windsurfing may appear to be a crappy sport compared to kitesurfing but i asure you it is a far more core sport than kitesurfing will ever be. plus it can actually be just as fun as kitesurfing (only you need a hurricane to do it) lol

Define core?... lol

Well to be completely honest I found windsurfing a hell of a lot easier to learn than kitesurfing, I mean they are both absolutly wicked sports though. One thing which is a bit annoying is people's reasoning for doing it is that it requires a lot of skill, which is evident when the waves are pumping, but then my question to that would be; are you doing it for yourself, or just to say you can do it? surely having fun should be the number 1 motive?

Yeh, as echo said, everyone to their own, they are both awesome sports, why compare them in such general terms when evidently different people are more apt at one or the other and hence will be more likely to prefer one or the other, they can both be just as fun and entail just as much skill as one another (if the latter is why you do it...I just dont understand you ).

I've got crap from surfers for kiting before, they reknd it was a 'pussy sport' all I can say is that on that windy windy day I don't think there was another person on the beach feeling as hiiiigh as me... so I really didnt care ... even though I wouldn't agree with them.

By the way, I rekn surfing is by far the most difficult water/board sport that I've tried... I've been at it for ages and I still suck

BOTTOM LINE IS: Do what YOU love; we are all different

Again????? Really????? This argument will never end due to the few from each sport who have identity issues.

Ps - please don't call kiting 'extreme', it embarresses me. An extreme sport is only extreme when it is taken to the extreme...... which 99.9999% of people definately don't.

"Bisurfer" that's funny!

This is a good thread which could have turned into anything but has a bunch of good & reasonable comments - good on yas!

I will just add that the reason I windsurf, rather than kitesurf (and I think this applies to a lot of people) is because I like to race people - for me it's all about speed, not tricks.

A perfect day is getting a few guys together who are quick sailors and racing each other around some marks pushing each other to the limit of control. I get off on speed - when I do jumps it's how high, not how many spins. I'm the same in snowboarding - I race my mates down the mountain and leave the park to the lunatics doing the spins and grabs and all that.

So windsurfing is way more suited to racing, whereas people who lke getting upside down and doing spins and stuff - kitesurfing's their thing. That's cool and I totally respect that. Some people do freestyle on windsurfers too and that's fine, but it's just not my thing.

Are there any kiters who race? (Sorry if that's a stupid question)

AUS1111:

I dont really see a lot of kiters racing - most on down-winders...

i guess the reason is: the bigger a kite you put up, the slower you go, as you have to keep it under control - edging more to drag the mofo upwind. Then you let it go to 12 and jump huge.

is it the opposite for windsurfing?

robbo.

pynnee said...

Reading through the windsurfers forums I noticed they didnt like us at all.

"should we compete with windsurfers???"
Well I have to compete....
nearly everytime I go kite the waves at the local spot.
Unless it's very tiny like 1ft and the wind is really soft.
Then the poleys don't bother going out....
and I don't blame them.
Sailing little piss-weak waves in pus wind on a high volume poleboard with a fat-arse rig is totally sh1tfull.

And the reason the poleys don't like you Pynnee is because of your kitelines.
It's the strings man, it's always the strings.

And the reason the poleys don't like you Pynnee is because of your kitelines.

It,s not the kitelines Waveslave. I dont like Pynee because he's a knob.

hoop said...

And the reason the poleys don't like you Pynnee is because of your kitelines.

It,s not the kitelines Waveslave. I dont like Pynee because he's a knob.

lol funny stuff, yes we had this guy on the windsurfing forums talking it up, surely he would have a better photo of himself than standing on the beach flying his kite.



If there is anyone who thinks windsurfing isn't hardcore enough check this out.



This is Jason Polokow at Teahpoo, is this not hardcore enough.

It is way more then just a surface water sport.

What's to say when you can see. please click play below for a glimpse