Well since the polers are inviding our forums (kite surfing) with constent useless post design to inflate the agro, I thought it may be a good idea to retaliate.
Sorry no abuse, I like windsurfing and did it for over 10 years, just a word of advice, try kiting, it is simply more fun, more time on the water, less gear, and more hapiness.
Seing your dwindling numbers, you don't need my advice

sebol said...
it is simply more fun

Sure is. I always get a laugh watching:

A) Sailor go downwind, board go other direction downstream/tide.
B) Kite get stuck on navigation beacons.
C) Kite get stuck on yacht masts.
D) Kiters getting stuck on beach when squalls hit.

more time on the water

So why were all the kiters on the beach when I was planing marginally just today? This happens a lot. I could still go another m2 and 10cm. Actually I'm thinking of getting something to get planing in even lighter conditions. If a kiter can plane, I can plane. And I'm nothing special.

This is a myth. Windsurfers are wind snobs is all (see D above). I reckon there's not much in it even on freeride gear, and especially not formula.

less gear

Less but far more expensive gear, judging by the prize values in the current seabreeze comp.

and more hapiness (sic).

Happiness = gay, kiting = gay?

(The need for happiness is something to be transcended anyway)

Seeing your dwindling numbers, you don't need my advice

Commoner. Anyway I think there were more WS than KS at Shearwater today.


Can't believe I took the bait.


but... I'll give it to the kiters in light, onshore slop.

sebol said...

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Seing your dwindling numbers, you don't need my advice

troll... kiting is so 2005

He's not a troll and this is not useless, he's just a funny guy. Let him or her be.
Just the use of the word "retaliate" shows he's got issues that are pre-date kiting, but no biggie.

"More happiness": not sure I'm seeing that in either kiting or windsurfing anymore. Nowadays lots more kiters sitting on the side, claiming that they want more wind - presumably the same the windsurfers that switched to kiting.

Kiters kicked out of 3 municipal beaches in 2 years in the area here. The latter came with kiters trying to police their own arseholes lot that will get them kicked out of other beaches. That is sooooooo funny to watch.

Kiters complaining at me all the time when I trip over their lines on the beach. Kiters whinging at me when I come in after they've been stuck on the launch after 15 minutes of trying to get out and their line are tangled. Gee I get that a lot. Dunno what I'm doing wrong... A windsurfer takes 15 seconds to launch, with no need for cockholders too. I'm convincing more and more of my fellow surfers to do the same, it's getting to be a real funny situation - they're always stuck! We just land a foot upwind from them.

I'm also hearing more and more kiters bitching about the price of new gear - probably too windsurfers that switched for the same reason.

I love the recurrent threads where a kiter got blown into a wall, and the other kiters heaping that he didn't do this-that right, that it'll never happen to them. It's like a combo jackass-reality show !!

I'm beginning to think that kiting is actually the greatest new gig that could happen for a good laugh !

nebbian said...

Hey Sebol,

I think there are more windsurfers than kiters over this end of the forum,

Perhaps these threads could use your advice?

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64438
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64455

This is all soooo funny, and so typical: them all starting to bitch at one another.

There are two type of kitesurfers: Ones that are well rounded and respectful of the surrounding area swimmers and fellow water users, and the others which are a bunch of attention deficit disorder w@nkers that got expelled from school for smoking pot. The latter would never take up windsurfing because it requires more skill, practice and available brain cells to master, compared with the quick fix that kitesurfing can offer.

Simply put: There are more w@nkers kitesurfing than windsurfing because any idiot can do it.

evlPanda said...

Perhaps these threads could use your advice?

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64438

This one is gold.....

I feel a s**** thread coming on....

Edit: The word for a mocking thread that may contain a four letter word. I said s p o o f

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64474

Alot of the kiters I know are X-dancers.

They realised they could get out more often and be powered up,could gybe without loseing power and speed and falling in the water, could jump off a wave and land without falling like a stone and lose all speed, could go faster in general and could actually surf a wave instad of just doing ****y little turns.

Thats their words not mine,
and they use to dancer their whole life so they should know.
Now they laugh at the very few wave sufers (dont see them much any more) struggling in big surf , getting smashed trying to get out.Having to walk their big cumbersome boats back up the beach cause they are so useless at tacking upwind.
Always funny watching the sets comming and the dancer trying to chicken gybe to come back in and the lip lands on them and washes their sad lifeless malibu with a sail all they way to the beach.ha ha ha. soooo funny

but to the few old die hards that like to live in the past and dont like change,
keep on dancing,
it gives the crew something to laugh at

Yeah, was going to quote some of you but the only arguments you guys have put forward over and over again(yawn) is,,its gay, or you guys cant spell.

I only quoted from the dancers that switched over because,,,well,,,its hard to find anyone who still does that retro sportdid I put enough winks.

The polers that I know that changed over had been dancing for 20 odd years and were regaurded as being great watermen.They didnt find dancing difficult or too hard,just enjoying the speed and manouverability of kiting.
They just like new challengers in life,not old and stuck in their ways,open to try new things in life and not scared to start at the bottom again and work up.That scares the crap out of old people for some reason.Makes life more enjoyable trying new things and not get in the same old same old life.
Like the thread on here about "what keeps you motivated", if it has become that boring and they need to find inpseration to even get in the water,maybe they need to try kiting and get their stoke back.

your point of kiting being easier ,,,,
mmmmmmm easier,faster,more fun, ......yeah your right.

Flipper11 said...

just made a nice post to the tea baggers and told em to leave us alone or else ok fellas. Thease kite boys are starting to get abit our of hand

Dont worry,Im done over here ,before one of you threaten me with taking legal action again. lol

Perhaps when you've been kiting continuously for 30 years Lotofwind, you'll come back and tell everyone how 'stoked' you still are? (Assuming your brain hasn't addled by then!)

Windsurfing is not boring. Kiting doesn't 'scare the crap out of us'. We are not sad, old or otherwise, in search of some meaning in our lives.

Lotofwind is an appropriate name for you - I imagine many have commented on the fact! Perhaps if you were to blow some of it out of your other orifice, the knock on effects may even reach the Northern Hemisphere and give us 'sad old men' an extra days planing.

graceful said...

ive only seen a handful of guys that make windsurfing look any good/fun...
have not done it, so cant knock it from experience...but even those "good" sailors look sh#T house on the waves compared to kiters, all your turns are so stiff and slow, kiting opens up your whole body and allows you to SURF the wave free, forget the kite and tear downwind upwind of the wave with ease...
not saying i wouldnt give windsurfing a crack because i love to try everything, but just based on shredding the surf, whenever its blowing the kite wins hands down, and i can say that without trying to windsurf already because we surf it, you boat it.. kiting is flowing freedom

Not a bad entry, graceful.

One is easy (from all accounts), one is harder.
One is an activity, the other a sport.

Other than that, good post !

My brother is a poley and I am a kiter.. some of the best times we have had have been on the water.. who gives a frogs fat ass what you ride!! All our arguments are over Yamaha Vs KTM... IF IT AINT ORANGE ITS A LEMON