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What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby Tone » Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:55 am

As in, in replacement of a board.

Bit of Monday work fun.

I have ridden a full length scaffolding board - about 12ft in length. Went up wind really quite well and an actual Door.

I saw someone on Facebook trying to ride a sheet of ice, not sure how that went...

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby Toby » Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:01 am

back then Lou Wainman was on a McDonalds dinner tray...

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby Flight Time » Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:00 pm

Toby wrote:back then Lou Wainman was on a McDonalds dinner tray...
Hmm... Flexy, deals with chop, probably not a bunch of pop, but hey, nothing's perfect. :lol:

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby BWD » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:23 pm

Think I once saw a winter video of someone riding a chunk of ice as a board

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby edt » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:29 pm

kiting a broken piece of ice shelf is not that unusual I do that in the winter if conditions are right

more unusual is kiting a boat when the power died back to the marina, saw doug and sean do that last year

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby Bille » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:49 pm

MY Head ; didn't up-wind for squat, & it had the tendency to Hurt afterward !!

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby papand » Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:01 pm

Awhile ago Kevin Langree surfed on a suitcase bought on the local market. Looked like good fun until the suitcase sank, lol

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby fdvj » Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:20 pm

Acid

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby plummet » Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:50 pm

my torso!.

Lost my board in big swell. Was about to get mothered by a wave so i started body dragging to the beach. then i caught the wave so i was body kitesurfing... then the aparent wind kicked in and i was plaining on my torso..

I outrun the wave and blasted back to shore no slower than if I was on a board!

Crazy.

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Re: What is the strangest thing you have kitesurfed on?

Postby gazxtreme » Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:50 pm

A 3' square peice of ply driftwood that happened to be at the edge of the water once. Just like a skimboard without any shape.


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