I'm wondering how many of the 70 years old and beyond are hydrofoiling.
Personally, since reaching the 7ties, I prefer hydrofoiling over kitefoiling, mainly because of the abundance of foiling days vs stronger winds....
The opposite is also true. I'm one of the rare kitefoilers in their 30's (little edit from above) .Foil wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 6:31 amwhen anyone retires from the day job your free time is endless,
so pick a day! any day you want, Ttips surfboards, skim boards, and the like will not fill the free time gap, you can go for months and still not get out for a really good session, however kite foiling once you have it cracked, can you leave you with very little time to spend in the garage, garden, diy house repairs, shopping,watching daytime tv, the number of days you can get out there are amazing, extra wetsuits and drysuits are required as they dont get time to dry,
2 months before I retired my kitefoiling gear was on order, 2 months holiday booked where i spent every day getting to grips with the complexity of kite foiling, nearly 5 years on and so glad kite foiling became my choice of watersport,
if I only had Ttips to use I would be a grumpy old get, always moaning there was never enough wind.
Learning how to boost and land(landing is an art,very hard to master) after year 2 was a big new world in kite foiling for me, so glad the stronger masts from sab are now in my quiver, and the newer superlight kite foil related LEI kites that also boost big on foil and Ttip, it just gets better.
Rare kitefoiler in their 30s? Come on. I know dozens of kitefoilers in their 30s. This is not rare at all. I even know several kitefoilers who are under 15 (yes, you read correctly) and also a lot in their 20s. At least half of the kiters I know have a foil in their quiver and pull it out whenever TT is not possible.
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