I don't think we are being homophobic - but if we are apologies User - don't really want you to get your knickers in a knot (of course we don't). We are just calling it how we see it.

Hmmm a bit like:

- golfers referring to hole in one genuises that play put-put mini-golf,
- skydivers, hangliders or paragliders referring to aquagliders (u know the parachute being towed behind a boat) (hmmm this one may be a bit too close to home for you),
- serious one design competition and ocean sailors (transocean) referring to the champagne sipping keelboaters on the river Saturday afternoon only sailors,
- V8 supercar drivers referring to warehouse minikart drivers,
could go on and on, though think I already have that habit [}:)][}:)]

Mark _australia said...

Thousands of people in Australia drive Commodores. A select few get to drive Ferraris.
By your logic Commodores are better .
I guess some people will always take up Dope on a Rope as it is easy, and others will be wavesailors.

Mark, this is the best comment I have read for ever

I've figured out a way to keep windsurfers and kiters apart.. just spread the rumour that there's a camera crew on the next beach.. You can hear the flapping of the boardies (over the wetsuit) as they rush over for fame and glory and to show just how EXXTTREEMEE their sport is..

Mean while I'll just doddle and have some fun with my mates...

It almost seems that kitesurfing is self-destructing from the inside. Too many selfish individuals not looking out for the good of the rest of the kiting community..

Maybe a little like windsurfing in the 80's?

User, I think you need to check out this site:

www.gaysports.com/page.cfm?sectionid=58&parent=4

stribo said...

SHEEEEZZZZz!!!
I go away for a day and this thread expands by two pages of "my sports better than your sport nahna nah na nah nah"
Nothing constructive about harmonizing our local spots
At least it is bringing some awarness to people about what pisses each other off and lets us vent disaprovment here and hopefully less and less on the water.

Hey, I made the proposal kite boarders and windsurfers have an open day together where we can try each others' sport under supervision and get lessons in each. This would be the best way to improve relations, so we can understand the potentials and constraints of each style. We can also find out the other side are human. The situation is similar to the Protestant / Catholic issues our society once had where the other side were heretics, who were going straight to Hell.

The other option besides a laissez fair anything goes, is to have an apartheid structure at popular and hence overcrowded spots. This seems to happen in Sydney anyhow. From what I have seen on Botany Bay, windsurfers seem to go up near the airport and kite boarders go down past Brighton Le-Sands.

MANS SPORT.

This just don't compare.

aido said...

& it takes a windsurfer to know theres a gay sports site.

When are use going to accept that kite surfing is more of an impressive sport to watch to do & it beats wind surfing hands down.

Use are the mals of the wind world old & decrepid stop living in the past your sports dull & boring thats why theres f all cameras following you around

To the laymen kitesurfing is exiting to watch but to an experienced watermen it's quite commical.
The kitesurfing utube videos i choose where the most impressive i could find.... but then it doesn't impress me....

stribo said...

aido said...

& it takes a windsurfer to know theres a gay sports site.

When are use going to accept that kite surfing is more of an impressive sport to watch to do & it beats wind surfing hands down.

Use are the mals of the wind world old & decrepid stop living in the past your sports dull & boring thats why theres f all cameras following you around

To the laymen kitesurfing is exiting to watch but to an experienced watermen it's quite commical.
The kitesurfing utube videos i choose where the most impressive i could find.... but then it doesn't impress me....

Thats why the most experienced legendary Watermen in the World kitesurf !

Laird Hamilton
Robbie Naish

Pete Cabrinha (Winner of the largest wave ever ridden tow in )

stribo said...

SHEEEEZZZZz!!!
I go away for a day and this thread expands by two pages of "my sports better than your sport nahna nah na nah nah"
Nothing constructive about harmonizing our local spots
At least it is bringing some awarness to people about what pisses each other off and lets us vent disaprovment here and hopefully less and less on the water.

Ive never had a problem between me and a windsurfer. My only problems have been with dickhead kiters getting to close and crashing into me. I like windsurfers, always give a wave and chat to them, and have never had a bad experience.
The two sports attract similar types of people, that love the ocean, and just having wicked fun with the wind.
I think windsurfers dont like kiters going upwind of them when they are going close together. It only take one mistake to get lines on the mast and sail. I try and go downwind of them in that situation.
What else do we do that you dont like (appart from boardies on the outside (which i hate also))?

Stribo posted a video of kiting at Cape Verde up there above....I loled. And then you have this.



And This

USER - Robby Naish and Pete Cabrihna both started kiting to cash in on a fast growing fad (at the time) and took full advantage of it. Why wouldn't they. They both have two of the biggest names in kiting now. Im presuming that is mostly why they kite ( and to sell gear to people who are not talented enough to windsurf). Take a look at naish these days, he is basically 100% focused on windsurfing. He was a featured sailor in the Windsurfing Movie. The best sailing vid so far. You should watch it.

Laird Hamilton use to feature on videos doing massive airs on a windsurfer. You've probably never seen that. That bloke does everything because he can and that is his image, to do everything from tow surfing to riding a hydrofoil board.


Oh yeah. You forgot probably the most insane waterman of them all... Our own Australian Jason Polakow, the bloke doesn't kitesurf...

Anyone remember the old fruit fly (Drosophila) test tube experiment from school. WS went through it - now Kiting is going through it - I think you will find Naish and Cabrinha are chasing the $ - and good on them too - afterall its so easy to learn, thus the growth rate will be huge until it implodes. But I think you will find both still WS when kiting is dead and buried, and not even mentioning kiting anymore.

And as for being an extreme sport - that term has well and truly been stolen by commercial interests and anyone that thinks kiting is an extreme sport (when it is so easy) and in comparison to WS wavesailing is just fooling themslves.

meerkat said...

is interesting when poleys and tea baggers try and "outdo" each other by posting other people doing extreme stuff.

NEWS FLASH: Very few people on this site, regardless of chosen sport, can do anything half as impressive as the videos.

Most users are middle aged blokes who can't afford a fancy sports car so do an "extreme"(hahaahah) sport to impress.

Boils down to the kiters and windsurfers coming from the same demographics and crying and sooking just as bad as each other.

For ****s sake, its not like we are base jumpers, we are all just glorified sailers, get over yourselves.

no way dude, i'm awesome