Starsky wrote:...The reality is that many kiters are surfboard illiterate and start with a rockered narrow shape that suits higher winds and they fail in frustration to get it working in light to moderate wind...
Starsky wrote:...The reality is that many kiters are surfboard illiterate and start with a rockered narrow shape that suits higher winds and they fail in frustration to get it working in light to moderate wind...
alamos_kiter wrote:Starsky wrote:...The reality is that many kiters are surfboard illiterate and start with a rockered narrow shape that suits higher winds and they fail in frustration to get it working in light to moderate wind...
AirBunny wrote:Oi, when do you guys surf/kite? I was just on the water -- no wind, so just some paddling in the puddle -- and you wrote me a novel. Digesting... I guess that's why kite manufacturers developed special kitesurfing waveboards... but you have to agree they have to cater to the common denominator and not just to the very advanced kiters. Waveboarding manufactueres have more experience and probably a larger market so they've been developing level specific products that make sense. Kiteboarding is still too young, in its big air phase -- analogous to big wave in surfing. But it will evolve, it will become tamer, more sophisticated, and we can eventually hope for more level-specific products in future... And a better name...
AirBunny wrote:Wow Starsky, you should publish a book! Good to see so many wind-inspired words. BUT -- sorry I'm not convinced -- unhooked is good for two things and two things only: downwind in the wave, bc it gives you greater control of the kite and you don't have to work so hard (otherwise you are just huffing and puffing-- not fun!) and handlepass, which is Tarzan-style cool, but then again a question of taste. I honestly don't see other advantages to unhooking. It seems counterproductive to optimizing hangtime
Making bold definitive but speculative statements about an advanced aspect of a sport in which you have no experience is intelligent?AirBunny wrote:It's called intelligence! BTW, did you notice how the Brit didn't respond to me when I asked whether less skilled kiters will have a hard time on a pro surf board, but once you and alamo partoted my observation, it was 'bang on'... He can't give a woman credit for anything and neither can you. That's so pathetic
Starsky wrote:...Kite surf brands make kite SURF boards. Most kiters looking to get into strapless are not any where near ready for surf let alone do it strapless. The boards are exactly what they are advertised for. Surf. Getting into strapless riding is a whole different thing and none of us learned it while dropping in on bombs, so it makes sense that we did it on different board than Kelly takes to pipe.
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Strapless riding is a board centred approach and those that simply take the straps off of their 5'2 gun are missing the point.
AirBunny wrote:P.S. Apologies if I have failed to heed good advice from anyone, though I don't remember doing so, but it's hard to stay level-headed when you are under constant attack for your gender, status, experience and all kinds of speculative pseudo-personal info that has nothing to do with kiting; damage control is your finishing school these days; don't let any bully tell you how to live or how to style yourself
....and Marx? Really? Which reminds me that you claimed to be "high up in science" but never explained what that meant. I'm still curious what that even means.AirBunny wrote:Oh TT pulled the victim card. Typical bully behavior. No I want to be able to trust the advice I get here and know that it's not coming from morally reprehensible sources. Those who've attacked me for no reason know it very well.
Everyone judges by his own standard. Those who use inflammatory language think the same of others. I'm just trying to keep it real here but some people have a problem with women and some with language.
Nothing is more inflammatory than your halfbaked Marxist arguments. Marx is Hegel for beginners. And Hegel is way out of fashion.
So let me get this straight: you do extreme sports yet can't handle some straight talk from a woman? Watch out, that wave may be over your head.
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