Anyone use waterskis?

[Bille]

It's a great idea, but think about how much surface area the skis will cover vs a twin tip board. You would really need to be lit to make it plane out. Think about how you would need to twist the upper half of your body so that you can control the kite, unless you do it with 1 arm. And when you transition and go the other way, you are going to have to ski backwards unless you get some kind of special harness. Lets face it man, being on a board outnumbers skis in so many ways, especially the style. If this sport required skis, I probably would have never got into it.

Dang Dude ; you really like to run your Mouth, on shit Ya don't know squat about , ( ski backwards) !

Look at the foot-print my board is leaving in the water , (and i can NOT control foot angle, without ankles ); now
try and figure out how that would compare to a waterski, that is actually Longer ...

A Dynabar V-7 harness , might work good for this ?

Bille

[FLandOBX]

http://youtu.be/psu0Y1mjcvM

Didn't look good for him, at first ; then the guy Dialed-in to the point where
he looked to be having a BLAST , (he even stayed , kinda up-wind) !!

Bille

Here's some vintage (1987) footage of Cory Roeseler & friends. Gotta' admire their vision......(not to mention those old control bars! )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYwpPPHxaM

[LetsFlyaKite]

It's a great idea, but think about how much surface area the skis will cover vs a twin tip board. You would really need to be lit to make it plane out. Think about how you would need to twist the upper half of your body so that you can control the kite, unless you do it with 1 arm. And when you transition and go the other way, you are going to have to ski backwards unless you get some kind of special harness. Lets face it man, being on a board outnumbers skis in so many ways, especially the style. If this sport required skis, I probably would have never got into it.

Dang Dude ; you really like to run your Mouth, on shit Ya don't know squat about , ( ski backwards) !

That's right, when you downloop the kite and turn with your skis and ski the other way, (Ski backwards)

[edt]

those videos are nuts thanks for sharing.

Onthewater860 please make videos when you break out the waterskiis, love watching how different it is from wakestyle boards or surfboards or even hydrofoils.

[chemosavi]

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Pretty clear the guy is not a natural athlete. And probably hasn't done a lot of waterskiing. So if he can do what he did after getting used to it I'll bet some ultarthin's the guys around these parts could crank out a new groove. With the exception of Letsflyakite who would most likely end up with a waterski stuck up his exit canal. Or find a reason his instructor found it unsafe and thereby not worth their next lesson in safe canal research.

[jakemoore]

Could be that waterski's get pulled downwind because they are designed to be pulled behind a boat. A center of resistance more forward and flatter rocker may help. Wakeboards designed to pull behind a boat are also terrible for kiteboarding upwind.

[chemosavi]

With all due respect Jake, I don't think waterskis were designed for anything. Besides getting a hot bod above the surface of the water behind a big motor boat at Marvin Gardens in '46. Which led to other perversions like jumping off a big pile of floating slanted wood. I learned in '67 on Lake Havasu which inevitably progressed to the harder stuff like slalom. Oh shit.The End.

[edt]

Could be that waterski's get pulled downwind because they are designed to be pulled behind a boat. A center of resistance more forward and flatter rocker may help. Wakeboards designed to pull behind a boat are also terrible for kiteboarding upwind.

nah it's not just the rocker.

they did a ton of experimenting back between 1985 and around 2005. Go look at them old videos some of those boards they are riding are hilarious looking, huge bars, weird boards, it was a wild time.

We don't seem to experiment as much now a days which is why I'm excited that the original poster is gonna go out and water ski with a kite.

[matth]

Just use a freakin TT!!

[Starsky]

I think it's hilarious that people want to reinvent the already evolved. I laugh my ass off right up to the point they succeed at improvement. Then I call it foiling and hop on the bandwagon!