[quote=[Dave_5280"]Back country- I guess you're not talking about Hunter [/quote]No, indeed I am not talking about Hunter. I'm speaking of skiing, not an ongoing seasonal clusterfuck.

I'm about your age and my sports are also kiting, skiing, and one more, running. What works for me in skiing and running is setting goals and learning how to work towards them over time. In skiing I've been setting a goal for vertical feet each season - finally went over 2 million this last season ...

Great info here! Mt biking has been one of the best ways to stay in shape for kiting. Since you ski I was wondering if you snow kite? I have started taking a mineral supplement called concentrace and the results have been amazing! Its a trace mineral supplement with 72 minerals. I started taking it...

Well i think a 3 hour session in 25 knot head high with shore break and washing machine chop flying a 12m is worthy indeed. Perhaps your expectation is too high? Kiting is a sport that you can blow your self out in less than an hour or be able to kite endlessly depending on how powered you are an h...

You'll get fit kiting. No need to worry about that. If I were you i would start triathlon, cause that's the only known way to restore bone density. After 25 you start losing muscle, immune system strength and bone density. A couple of ironman a year should counter all of that. Other than that, don'...

Just to be 100% clear, I can't go 3 hours without a break! And the mogul analogy isn't the best, cause I do ski moguls well - the smoother and more relaxed the better it works. My point was more that kiting in the chop and swell is constant up/down and absorption with the legs, very very different t...

if you can already kite 3 hours your fitness level is more than enough to kite for another 3 or 4 hours, and I'm not sure extra exercises will help any I mean sure you can do ab exercises, legs, shoulders but you can still hit that wall. It sounds like your overall fitness level is already excellen...

Theres some web sites around with kite specific exersizes. (1) Sorry I'm too lazy to look them up. Personally I mountain bike also. That has made my legs stronger than what is required for kiting.... Also keeps my aerobic fitness/endurance up which is also usefull. It doesn't work the core though w...

What's the best way to improve conditioning for kiting? I find that kiting is unusual in that it doesn't produce "acute" fatigue (as with burning thighs from skiing). For me it's more like a generalized, systemic fatigue where I start making more mistakes, miss landings, stuff like that. When I star...

Our 2011 quad bar safety drops to a single red line that travels up about 5m to the "Y" where it flags the kite onto both front lines. All of our 4-line kites are designed in such a way that when you release to both front lines, the front connection points slide towards each other in the middle and...